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Quotes About Obsessing

I could hardly get to sleep for dreaming of revenge.
~ Ralph Ellison
Walsh knew,' Stuart Lancaster, the current England rugby coach, told rugby writer Mark Reason, 'that if you established a culture higher than that of your opposition, you would win. So rather than obsessing about the results, you focus on the team.
~ James Kerr
There are always different influences each season. It could be a person, it could be a piece of furniture; it depends on what I'm obsessing about.
~ Anna Sui
Don't let this anger ruin your life any more than it already has. If you want to every achieve happiness, don't dwell on the past. Instead, start living. What is the point of obsessing that has already happened, and that you cannot change? Live! And be merry.
~ Kien Nguyen
Grayed-down discipleship is an easier sell, but it created pretend Christians, obsessing over Scriptures we like while conspicuously ignoring the rest.
~ Jen Hatmaker
but i am content to live in the moment, and allow myself the daily pleasure of obsessing. nothing lasts forever, i tell myself. especially the good stuff. although typically you aren't faced with a hard deadline
~ Emily Giffin
Like so many other bored teens, I was a bored teen with a hobby. The only difference was mine was obsessing about crime.
~ Sarah Weinman
It was always disconcerting to meet those who had become so obsessed with a single topic that they could not see their concerns in context.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
It's time to stop obsessing about overhead and start focusing on progress. Change charity, and charity can change the world.
~ Dan Pallotta
If I let a blue mood run rampant, before I know it I'm obsessing about the color of the satin lining in my coffin - will it match my dress? That's when I feel like Alice in Cancerland falling down the rabbit hole and just have to stop.
~ Kris Carr
I've been going around London obsessing about people's gardens; I take pictures on my BlackBerry.
~ Miquita Oliver
I realized I was wasting a perfect opportunity. Nancy Drew wouldn't sit here obsessing over Ned Nickerson (who was at least good for kicking in doors sometimes). She would take advantage of the fact that her main obstacle was busy onstage and there was a field full of pickup trucks out there, and some of them had to be diesel.
~ Rosemary Clement-Moore
TRUST AND THANKFULNESS WILL get you safely through this day. Trust protects you from worrying and obsessing. Thankfulness keeps you from criticizing and complaining: those "sister sins" that so easily entangle you.
~ Sarah Young
TRUST AND THANKFULNESS WILL get you safely through this day. Trust protects you from worrying and obsessing. Thankfulness keeps you from criticizing and complaining:
~ Sarah Young
I believe detachment can become a habitual response, in the same manner that obsessing, worrying, and controlling became habitual responses—by
~ Melody Beattie
There are a lot of myths about fat loss, and I wanted to explain how to do it properly, without obsessing over silly fads.
~ Chloe Madeley
Please," I'd say. "Don't leave. Come back and subject yourself to more violation and sexual assault." God, what if she felt that way? What if she felt threatened? I was up all night obsessing about it. About her.
~ Julie Anne Peters
If you want to ever achieve happiness, don't dwell on the past. Instead, start living. What is the point of obsessing over something that has already happened, and that you cannot change? Live! And be merry.
~ Kien Nguyen
What's the point of obsessing over cholesterol or bike helmets or even cigarettes when the biggest threats to our children are being released back into society every day?
~ Laura Wiess
When I started reading George R.R. Martin's 'A Song of Ice and Fire' novels, it was the late 1990s and obsessing over fantasy novels was (if painful memory serves) a super-nerdy thing to do.
~ Ross Douthat
she knew part of what made Facebook—and the internet, really—addicting was simultaneously indulging your own obsessions while mocking (deriding, denouncing even) the obsessions of others from the safety of your screen.
~ Dana Spiotta
This sort of obsessing would get him nowhere. He needed to move on, to get going, to look forward.
~ Jodi Picoult
When Javert finally realized that Valjean had something he himself didn't—mercy—did he shrug and find a new obsession, like knitting or Game of Thrones? No. Because without Valjean to hate, he didn't know who he was anymore.
~ Jodi Picoult
One way adult children avoid their legitimate suffering is by staying in their heads. This involves obsessing about things, analyzing, discussing, reading, and spending lots of energy in trying to figure things out. There is a story about a room with two doors. Each door has a sign on it. One says HEAVEN; the other says LECTURE ON HEAVEN.
~ John Bradshaw