Quotes About Fixation

Fixation on the 'first' in any form or content is often less instructive then a general sense of its 'trended change' – which is to say as part of an overall transformation of practices and conditions, generally in answer to shifts in technology or market perceptions.

The only person he cared about was the one he thought he could mould her into.

An obsession is where something will not leave your mind

Well, maybe it has to do with the fact that I was a complete Hitchcock fanatic from age 9.

I crave ideas, and when an idea hits me, it grips me and it tortures me until I master it.

I'm hooked on Glenn Close in 'Damages.'

And when I picture his mind, I hear my name as a shy crystal ping that occurs once, maybe twice, a day and quickly subsides. I just wish he thought about me as much as I do him.

I just wish he thought about me as much as I do him.

There is nothing so unreasonable and irrational and blind—and just plain silly-looking—as a man who works himself into an obsessive passion.

Fanatics have the look of people who do not masturbate but who think about it almost all time.

Fanatics,' Didier mused, ignoring the rebuke, 'always seem to have the same scrubbed and staring look about them. They have the look of people who do not masturbate, but who think about it almost all the time.

Fanatics always seem to have the same scrubbed and staring look about them. They have the look of people who do not masturbate, but who think about it almost all the time.

Fanatics, of all kinds, all have the same scrubbed and staring look about them, the look of people who do not masturbate, but who think about it almost all the time.

My bedroom was plastered with pictures of Van Damme. My mother was worried about me. Most teenage boys have half-naked women on their walls, and I had Jean-Claude.

When 'Brain on Fire' premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in 2016, I fixated on inconsequential things like what dress I would wear and how much weight I wanted to lose. I lost my perspective.

To do anything to a high level, it has to be total obsession.

Does it look to you like she's got a 'my precioussss' thing going on with something in that pocket?" I asked him.

Writers - we're a little crazy about how much we care about it. We spend a lot of time fussing. At least, I do.

A man who has schemed for some time can no longer do without it; all other ways of living are to him dull and insipid.

And there was that other thing too—that thing that dominated his every waking moment and kept him from sleep at night and haunted his dreams when he did nod off. There was Allie.

I seemed to have lost all soul or sensation but for this one pursuit

Cure for an obsession: get another one.

giant hard drive in my head, so I'm forced to obsess over it all like

Ideological fixation is the result of the ever-present tensions and conflicts between our normative wishes and interpretation of reality.