Quotes About Fixation

It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.

I'm addicted to cosmetic surgery!

In the world I've known most of my life, old stories quickly lose their power over capital markets and get replaced by new surprises. That which everyone fixates on gets priced into the stock market quickly and can't drag on.

They got that way, Garraty had noticed. Complete withdrawal from everything and everyone around them. Everything but the road. They stared at the road with a kind of horrid fascination, as if it were a tightrope thay had to walk over an endless, bottomless chasm.

They got that way, Garraty had noticed. Complete withdrawal from everything and everyone around them. Everything but the road. They stared at the road with a kind of horrid fascination, as if it were a tightrope they had to walk over an endless, bottomless chasm

Monomania. Monogamy. Monotony. Nothing good begins this way.

When you're in the world looking for only one thing, you find it or it finds you. The obsession can be mutual

I fixed my eyes in the vicinity of the yellowish-brown darned spot around the little green button at your breast.

Obsession is a young man's game.

'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.

When you find out a man's ruling passion, beware of crossing him in it.

As Herman Melville wrote of that seagoing monster of a man Captain Ahab, "All mortal greatness is but disease.

Where a man has a passion for meditating without the capacity of thinking, a particular idea fixes itself fast, and soon creates a mental disease.

The right idea is the one you can't stop thinking about; the one that's in your head first thing in the morning.

I'm addicted to something at all times. Like, it's always music, but maybe sometimes it's a pair of pants or something else. That's just how my personality works.

Avoidance of experiences is a fixation and it binds you to the world, it binds you to the personal self.

Because it's much more pleasant to be obsessed over how the hero gets out of his predicament than it is over how I get out of mine.

We just move from one addiction to the other, choose your addiction!

We were too sick of the case to talk about it anymore but too obsessed with it to talk about anything else.

Unless we spend as much time looking at God as we spend looking at our self, our knowing of our self will simply draw us further and further into an abyss of self-fixation.

Wow, that sounds total stalker." Or totally hot. God.

God, his chin. She wanted to make an honest woman of his chin. She wanted to lock it down.

Good things come to obsessive compulsives who fixate.

When a man gives himself up to the government of a ruling passion,--or, in other words, when his HOBBY-HORSE grows head- strong,--farewell cool reason and fair discretion.