Obsession Quotes - Page 18

• Our obsession with security is a measure of the power we have granted the future to hold over us.

  Wendell Berry

  Future, Granted, Security

  Wendell Berry (2015). “The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture”, p.50, Counterpoint

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• I begin every novel with the vow that I will not write about technology, Catholicism, or Hell. As you know, I end up writing about all three. They just happen to be personal obsessions of mine.

  Richard Dooling

  Writing, Technology, Three

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• I'm more inclined to linger in the science pages of 'The Week' magazine. But my principle obsessions are still watching sitcoms and football.

  Alan Davies

  Football, Principles, Magazines

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• This obsession with leadership... It's not neutral; it's American, this idea of the heroic leader who comes in on a white horse to save the day. I think it's killing American companies.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Horse, Thinking, Ideas

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• I think one of the downsides of the sort of obsession with romantic love and personal fulfillment is that the plain fact of the matter is that those feelings don't last for ever and so they better be replaced and reinforced by things that do.

  Mary Archer

  Romantic Love, Thinking, Feelings

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• Writing is my obsession, my passion. My relationship with it is one of the most complex and agonizing and richly vexing that I have in my life.

  Julianna Baggott

  Passion, Writing, Agonizing

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• Most organizations only focus on WHAT they do and HOW they do it - tactics and strategies - and they aren't even aware that this thing called the WHY exists. Focusing on only two pieces of a three piece puzzle leaves an organization, or a career, inherently out of balance. Being out of balance, only operating on two of the three pieces, shows up in different ways - increased stress, loss of passion, obsession with what your competition is doing, being forced to play the price game, trouble differentiating. These are all signs that the WHY is missing.

  Simon Sinek

  Stress, Passion, Loss

  Source: www.personalbrandingblog.com

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• My spiritual journey has been a good kind of thing I've been on. I guess some people would say I'm obsessed with it, but in a really good way. It's just enjoyable. I don't really have crazy obsessions about things.

  Jim Carrey

  Spiritual, Crazy, Journey

  "Jim Carrey, Virginia Madsen and Joel Schumacher Interviewed - 'The Number 23'". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. February 21, 2007.

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• I guess it could be said that the inspiration for 'Requiem for a Dream' is watching the American dream not only destroy so many lives in the U.S., but infect the rest of the world with its obsession with getting more, ignoring the deadly effect that has on the planet.

  Hubert Selby, Jr.

  Dream, Inspiration, World

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• I felt like if any two people had any kind of sexual affinity for each other they had to sleep with each other immediately, otherwise it was a terrible betrayal and waste...Fortunately, I'm relieved of those obsessions now. It's really wonderful. It's really wonderful not feeling you have to sleep with everybody.

  Leonard Cohen

  Love, Betrayal, Sleep

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• I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.

  Gary Oldman

  Piano, Obsessed, Classical Music

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• Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties, Chicago blues of the Fifties, West Coast music of the mid-Sixties - but I'd never really touched on dark Americana.

  Robert Plant

  Kids, Dark, Mississippi Delta

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• In its haste to bolster nationalism, in its obsession with security, Europe is losing its soul.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Europe, Soul, Haste

  "Europe hands its soul to the right" by Tariq Ramadan, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2009.

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• This, after all, was the month in which families began tightening and closing and sealing; from Thanksgiving to the New Year, everybody's world contracted, day by day, into the microcosmic single festive household, each with its own rituals and obsessions, rules and dreams. You didn't feel you could call people. They didn't feel they could phone you. How does one cry for help from these seasonal prisons?

  Zadie Smith

  Dream, New Year, Phones

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• They believe that if they do get published, a wonderful new life is in store. It will turn out that deep down they are really valuable people and will have lots of money from now on and really cool people like Ethan Hawke will be dropping by all the time. But it's a lie. Being a published writer will make them long to be ONLY as mentally ill as they are now. Their current level of obsession and doubt and self-loathing will look like the good old days. Honest.

  Anne Lamott

  Lying, Believe, Self

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• I could kiss you in the rain forever
  Turn all your pain to pleasure
  Fill up all your days with sunlight
  Make the passion last every night
  Give you my every possesion
  Make you my only obsession
  Climb up to the sky and pull down all the stars above
  But I could never love you enough

  Chely Wright

  Country, Song, Stars

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• I'm very sceptical about some of the excesses that I regard the Milibands of this world are leading towards. When you think about it, it's all been incredibly rapid - a year, a year and a half. And it's not a concern: it's an obsession. It's something very close to hysteria.

  Frederick Forsyth

  Thinking, Years, Hysteria

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• To the people that claim to hate Love: Remember that the thing that hurt you was a person, not love. If it had been love, they would not have hurt you. Beware that many things masquerade as love: obsession, jealousy, control, and loneliness are just a few. Love is the greatest thing on Earth, along with her sister, Hope.

  Carlos Salinas

  Love, Hurt, Hate

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• My favorite water cooler topic is fantasy football. I used to make fun of friends for doing it and now I'm obsessed.

  John Krasinski

  Football, Fun, Water

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• Have I seen The Commitments? I was obsessed with that movie. I just watched it again about two weeks ago.

  Lara Flynn Boyle

  Commitment, Two, Week

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• A friend of mine told me, you know your obsession with girls who talk like sexy babies? You have to put that into your script.

  Lake Bell

  Girl, Sexy, Baby

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• The real problem at the moment is that the banks - because of their existing culture, which is frankly anti-business, obsession with short-term trading profits, not focusing on the long term - are throttling the recovery of British industry.

  Vince Cable

  Real, Recovery, Long

  "George Osborne's campaign against Ed Balls hit by fresh Libor revelation" by Nicholas Watt, www.theguardian.com. July 8, 2012.

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• Determination becomes obsession and then it becomes all that matters.

  Jeremy Irvine

  Determination, Matter

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• The mother's love for her child is very strong in Korean society - almost on the borderline of being an obsession.

  Bong Joon-ho

  Mother, Strong, Children

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• I've had a lifelong obsession with urban legends and American folklore.

  Eric Kripke

  Urban Legends, Lifelong, Folklore

  "TV.com Q&A: Supernatural creator Eric Kripke". Interview with Tim Surette, www.tv.com. January 10, 2008.

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