Quotes About Fixation

I'm compulsive.

Jake Holman loved machinery in the way some other men loved God, women and their country.

I was bent on love the way a crow is bent on a flattened squirrel.

The trouble was, when you're in love with someone they are in the forefront of your mind the whole time and there isn't a whole lot you can do about it. It kind of defines being in love.

He doth nothing but talk of his horse.

Still harping on my daughter.

Fanatic. One who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

I also know that parents have discretionary recall, blocking out everything that contradicts our carefully edited recollections - an understandable attempt to dodge blame. Conversely, children often fixate on the indelibly painful memories, because they have made a stronger impression

Suddenly I can't think of anything except you!

One of the tortures of jealousy is, that it can never turn away its eyes from the thing that pains it.

În clipa când È›i se impune s? nu te gândeÈ™ti la un lucru, te vei gândi doar la el, obsesiv. InterdicÈ›ia devine obligaÈ›ie.

He talked about her in a way that only the obsessed do. It was always a pressured monologue, and it was always the same. He had to relate every detail, interpreting and seeking meaning in her every utterance or action, like a fundamentalist minutely analyzing a biblical text.

W]e need not become fixated upon our own suffering, whatever its origin. We offer it up, thus participating in the well-being of the universe. When we experience an illness or depression not as our own but as the universe's, we are one with all beings who experience this kind of suffering. (78)

It didn't consume his every waking thought- that would be a sign of criminal insanity- but he figured he thought about it maybe a dozen or so times a day.

I tend to latch on to things pretty obsessively for awhile. I listened to Russian pop music exclusively for almost five years. It's weird.

I have a borderline-embarrassing obsession with pop music.

A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

I remember that during 'Ek Hasina Thi,' a fan of the show had a king-size poster of me in her bedroom, which she would attack after every episode!

I know how people are. We fixate on controversy and all that.

You forget: I have an addictive personality. I'm addicted to you.

but Jill had told me numerous times that for Adrian, everything came back to Rose.

Sonya wasn't listening. Her gaze was totally fixated on the road we'd pulled off onto. We came to a red light, where I caught sight of a cheery sign: WELCOME TO ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN.

in regards to watches) They were such insidious little machines- always there to pressure you, to make you fixate on what was next instead of taking pleasure in what was now. To remind you that your time was slowly, inevitable running out.