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Quotes About Fixation

I have been insane on the subject of money-making all my life.
~ Cornelius Vanderbilt
Perhaps all anxiety might derive from a fixation on moments - an inability to accept life as ongoing.
~ Sarah Manguso
Tradition, long conditioned thinking, can bring about a fixation, a concept that one readily accepts, perhaps not with a great deal of thought.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
Because nothing but annihilation would stop him wanting Serena. Even then, he'd probably come back and haunt her.
~ Anna Campbell
They could not listen. They could not stop. What they did was the death dance. What they did would do them in.
~ Anne Sexton
ese nombre que es más que deseo, que se ha convertido ya en posesión a fuerza de haberlo repetido mil veces.
~ Annemarie Schwarzenbach
I wouldn't ask too much of her," I ventured. "You can't repeat the past." "Can't repeat the past?" he cried incredulously. "Why of course you can!" He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand. "I'm going to fix everything just the way it was before," he said, nodding determinedly. "She'll see.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Gözlerini bir an bile Daisy'den ay?rmam??t? ve san?r?m evdeki her ÅŸeyi onun hayran olduÄŸu gözlerinden ald??? tepkiye göre yeniden tart?yordu.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
I am for fetishisation! All of us have our favourite things, and they speak to us.
~ Tino Sehgal
Before filming 'The Crown,' I couldn't care less about the royal family. But now... I'm obsessed.
~ Vanessa Kirby
I'm really unimaginative - once I like something, I fix on it.
~ Maxine Peake
I've always loved 'Wicked.' It's one of my little obsessions.
~ Casey Cott
My personality's very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
~ Mitski
I tend to obsess over my passions.
~ Kiesza
I tend to latch on to things and not let go.
~ Damien Chazelle
Neville flexed his nostrils, he didn't like the smell of this. The young man was clearly a monomaniac
~ Robert Rankin
Baseball fans are junkies, and their heroin is the statistic.
~ Robert S. Wieder
every man needs an obsessio in order to enjoy life, and it was so much the better if that obsession was constructive.
~ Louis de Bernieres
every man needs an obsession in order to enjoy life, and it was so much the better if that obsession was constructive.
~ Louis de Bernieres
Everyone is more or less mad on one point.
~ Rudyard Kipling
Success in life is about obsession
~ Massimo Bottura
She hadn't been just a once-through reader either. Brothers Karamazov, Mill on the Floss, Wings of the Dove, Magic Mountain, over and over again. She would pick one up, thinking that she would just read that special bit -and find herself unable to stop until the whole thing was redigested
~ Alice Munro
An objective viewpoint was beyond her; she was single-minded to a fault.
~ Alison Weir
She was the scab he couldn't stop picking, the split lip he couldn't stop biting at, the loose thread he couldn't stop tugging
~ Joe Abercrombie