Obsessive Quotes - Page 6

• I categorize nerds as creative-obsessive. A lot of nerds are creative people who obsess almost unnaturally over the minutiae of things.

  Chris Hardwick

  People, Creative, Nerd

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• A geek is a person, male or female, with an abiding, obsessive, self-effacing, even self-destroying love for something besides status

  D. B. Weiss

  Self, Males, Abiding

  D. B. Weiss (2003). “Lucky Wander Boy”, Plume Books

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• It was always about love. Always, always about love. Lost love, love denied, the obsessive hunger for love. Parental or romantic. Whether it was twisted or pure, fulfilled or unrequited, love was always at the source.

  James W. Hall

  Love, Hunger, Twisted

  James W. Hall (2007). “Magic City: A Novel”, p.287, Macmillan

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• I'm a very obsessive type. If I do get into it, I'll soon be there 12 hours a day. I just don't want to do that.

  Yoko Ono

  Want, Hours, Type

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• I like to comprehend more or less everything around me - apart from the creation of my music. It's an obsessive character trait that's getting worse. I don't switch the light on and off 15 times before I leave the room yet, but something's going wrong.

  Robert Plant

  Character, Light, Rooms

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• I was diagnosed a number of years ago with obsessive-compulsive disorder - which everyone has, to some degree - and I have this really annoying trait where in conversation, I always steer it back to something that happened to me.

  Paula Poundstone

  Years, Numbers, Degrees

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• For if the modern mind is whimsical and discursive, the classical mind is narrow, unhesitating, relentless. It is not a quality of intelligence that one encounters frequently these days. But though I can digress with the best of them, I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive.

  Donna Tartt

  Soul, Mind, Quality

  Donna Tartt (2011). “The Secret History”, p.28, Vintage

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• If you become obsessive in spiritual practice, if you just try and try, you are not going to be happy. You are going to be obsessive.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Buddhist, Buddhism

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• I’m probably just as good a mother as the next repressed, obsessive-compulsive paranoiac.

  Anne Lamott

  Mother, Obsessive Compulsive, Next

  Anne Lamott (1994). “Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year”, Fawcett

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• Of course witnessing poverty was the first to be ticked off the list. Then I had to graduate to the more obscure stuff. Being in a riot was something I pursued with a truly obsessive zeal, along with being tear-gassed and hearing gunshots fired in anger.

  Alex Garland

  Tears, Poverty, Firsts

  Alex Garland (2005). “The Beach”, p.126, Penguin

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• love is a mental illness, an obsessive-compulsive disorder romanticized!

  Eric Jerome Dickey

  Love Is, Obsessive Compulsive, Mental Illness

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• I did miss the music a bit - but only in the wings, when I was waiting to go on. It seemed dreadfully quiet, rather unnerving. But the wonderful thing was that one didn't have to be quite so obsessive about one's health, and one's voice.

  Elaine Paige

  Wings, Voice, Waiting

  "Show Girl". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. April 16, 2000.

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• I know I have an eccentric, obsessive-compulsive side.

  Demi Moore

  Obsessive Compulsive, Eccentric, Sides

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• If I had to do a record review, I'd say it's got a cannibal, consumption, obsessive, violent-sex, romance angle, but with an upbeat swing to it.

  Marilyn Manson

  Sex, Swings, Romance

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• A mental disease has swept the planet: banalization the state of affairs, arising out of a struggle against poverty, has overshot its ultimate goal-the liberation of man from material cares-and has become an obsessive image hanging over the present. Offered the choice of love or a garbage disposal, young people of all countries have chosen the garbage disposal.

  Ivan Chtcheglov

  Country, Struggle, Men

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• If you have a good ear for dialogue, you just can't help thinking about the way people talk. You're drawn to it. And the obsessive interest in it forces you to develop it. You almost can't help yourself.

  Robert Towne

  Thinking, People, Ears

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• Before he came to Spain, photographers lined up in the discotheques, but they are still there waiting for him. Ronaldo is an obsessive of training, of the gym, of self-improvement. I’ve never seen a player in such good physical condition. He’s a gladiator.

  Jorge Valdano

  Player, Self, Waiting

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• Some young ladies are so starved for male approval that what should be a normal attraction to men is accelerated into an obsessive need for male affirmation. Tragically, these dear ladies allow themselves to be devoured in the arms of men who have neither regard not respect for them as people.

  T. D. Jakes

  Men, People, Males

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• Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of free time in which to write or becoming an English teacher and thinking about books and writers on a daily basis. That swayed me.

  David Guterson

  Teacher, Book, Writing

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• If the book is finished—published and on the shelf—I do not think of revising it. But if I'm not finished psychologically with characters, they will recur, either as themselves or as new, slightly altered manifestations, and their same issues will reappear. It's a matter of the subject and emotional investment and my own obsessive thinking about various issues It's an unconscious process. To say that a single story is not done isn't quite true. A story can be finished and judged successful or not by somebody else, but if the issue is not done for me, I can count on its reappearance.

  Antonya Nelson

  Book, Character, Successful

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• As damaging as the obsessive emphasis on testing often proves to be for kids in general, I believe that the effects are still more harmful in those schools in which the resources available to help the children learn the skills that will be measured by these tests are fewest, the scores they get are predictably the lowest, and the strategies resorted to by principals in order to escape the odium attaching to a disappointing set of numbers tend to be the most severe.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Children, Believe, Kids

  Jonathan Kozol (2005). “The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America”, p.110, Broadway Books

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• Singers attract fans with aspects of their own personality. People feel I'm passionate and obsessive. They know this isn't a profession for me, it's a vocation. It's not an egotistical thing, but something else. I'm in a dialogue with my audience, and that's something I need

  Steven Morrissey

  People, Personality, Fans

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• Why has slamming a ball with a racquet become so obsessive a pleasure for so many of us? It seems clear to me that a primary attraction of the sport is the opportunity it gives to release aggression physically without being arrested for felonious assault.

  Nat Hentoff

  Sports, Opportunity, Giving

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• My own position is so far on the obsessive side of preparation and professionalism that I fear my point of view is not going to be shared by anyone.

  Jonny Wilkinson

  Views, Preparation, Sides

  "Jonny Wilkinson's autobiography reveals him to be a tortured soul" by Paul Rees, www.theguardian.com. November 10, 2011.

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• A different world can be created or re-created-but not until we stop enshrining the economic values of invisible labor, infinite and obsessive growth, and a slow environmental suicide.

  Gloria Steinem

  Suicide, Economic Value, Growth

  Gloria Steinem (1995). “Moving Beyond Words: Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking Boundaries of Gender”, p.235, Simon and Schuster

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