Quotes About Fixation

The things that you think about the most will irrationally rise in importance in your mind.

I watched Charlotte's eyes. They wandered from one to the other; but they did not light on me, on me, who stood there motionless, and who saw nothing but her!

It may be, for example, that Sheila is one figure among twenty; but for our own reasons she is the only one we have eyes for.)

I like to mimic my grandkids. I'm trying to understand the intensity of fixation on a leaf. Kids don't need anything else in their life.

Everything I did was something to fix me. With all my heart I was trying to be dead.

The Enneagram is not a system of personality, as it is so often presented, but rather a definition of character fixation. The same character fixation can manifest across a full range of personalities. Jack Nicholson and Slobodan Milosevic have the same character fixation but different personalities.

Based on what I'd heard thus far, I could have easily and justifiably accused Jeff of stalking Francis Arsenault.

The fixation of the theater in one language--written words, music, lights, noises--betokens its imminent ruin.

I'm an obsessive. When I get a problem, a question in my mind, it can take me over.

There are all kinds of addictions, and I've got every single one. If you set me in front of anything, I will do it until I ram it into the ground and it's done working for me.

Determination becomes obsession and then it becomes all that matters.

An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.

My friends have always called me 'Mr. Thorough,' in that when I get into something, I become obsessed with it.

You have to do normal things or they don't go away. You have to reassure them. Or they just stand there staring at you, as if you're a car-crash, or pornography.

One boy had drawn a perfect isosceles triangle on every single page- meticulously, it was emphasized. Meticulously was a chilling touch: meticulousness, we knew, was just one step away from full-blown lunacy.

Each guest had retired, as an animal retires with a bone to the back of its cage, to chew over some single obsession.

So I think I'll remove him from your mind forever, this way. I'll put my hands, so, on each side of your head and I'll smash your skull between them like a walnut and that will blot him out.

I had an almost fetishistic attraction to film technology.

He was all that mattered to him.

I'm too much the slave of my own obsessions and fascination.

When he turned from his victim, I would see even blood teeming in him, and I would have given all the world to see him white again, my marble god, my graven Father in our private bed.

Soy demasiado esclavo de mis propias obsesiones y de mi propia fascinación.

She collected and polished resentments as if it were some kind of hobby.

Honesty, like any inclination, can become a ruling passion, a monomania almost.