Quotes About Fixation

The most characteristic feature of metric fixation is the aspiration to replace judgment based on experience with standardized measurement.

Metric fixation is the persistence of these beliefs despite their unintended negative consequences when they are put into practice.6 It occurs because not everything that is important is measureable, and much that is measurable is unimportant.

Metric fixation, which aspires to imitate science, too often resembles faith.

metric fixation has elements of a cult. Studies that demonstrate its lack of effectiveness are either ignored, or met with the assertion that what is needed is more data and better measurement.

Who isn't crazy sometimes? Who hasn't driven around a block hoping a certain person will come out; who hasn't haunted a certain coffee shop, or stared obsessively at an old picture; who hasn't toiled over every word in a letter, taken four hours to write a two-sentence email, watched the phone praying it will ring; who doesn't lay awake at night sick with the image of her sleeping with someone else?

You invade every thought I have even when they have nothing to do with you. I'm not just in love with you. I'm kind of obsessed.

If you can't stop thinking about someone's update, that's called "status cling."

If you can't stop thinking about someone's update, that's called "status cling.

He's a guy with a one-track mind. When he starts for one objective he can't think of anything else.

It's all they ever have on their minds! It starts off brainy, but always comes back to humping!

I should have liked to have had him beside me in a glass coffin, so that I could watch him all the time and he would not have been able to get away from me.

What can I say? I'm obsessed. And as we all know obsessed girls can't be held responsible for our actions.

That was the trouble when you got obsessed with a case: you lost perspective, saw everything through the prism of the investigation.

A man man may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him prisoner.

Sometimes you fixate on something so much that everything else fades away.

When the press falls in love, they fall in love hard.

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body — the wishbone.

The man was half-insane . . . I saw then what living with something like this could do to you. The obsession had taken over his entire life.

Griezman said, "Not literally, of course. He's obsessed about certain things, that's all. No doubt rooted in racist and xenophobic pathologies, and worsened by irrational fears. But otherwise he's quite normal.

When a person is gripped by a fugue or idea you can't just busy him out of it, not for long anyway.

the true test of the perversity of a pleasure is that it occupies a disproportionate amount of the attention.

There's no such thing as addiction; there's only things you enjoy doing more than life." -- Doug Stanhope

a full-fledged addiction?" "When it becomes uncontrollable.

Without socially positive opportunities to exercise our autonomy, we tend toward self-promotion over self-sacrifice and fixate on personal gain over collective prosperity.