Quotes About Obsessive

I studied computer science and graphic design, yeah, so music was self-taught and a backburner thing, an obsessive hobby.

Some of the mail I've had has been weird. When I played Guy of Gisborne, a woman crocheted a mini-version of me.

Traffic was stopped dead and I nudged the window switch and listened to the blowing horns approach peak volume. We were trapped in our own obsessive clamor.

the keys to thinking big is total focus. I think of it almost as a controlled neurosis, which is a quality I've noticed in many highly successful entrepreneurs. They're obsessive, they're driven, they're single-minded and sometimes they're almost maniacal, but it's all channeled into their work. Where other people are paralyzed by neurosis, the people I'm talking about are actually helped by it.

the classical mind is narrow, unhesitating, relentless... I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive.

I'd be perfectly happy if I could sit looking at the same half dozen paintings for the rest of my life. I can't think of a better way to go insane.")

What are you doing?' 'What the fuck does it look like I'm doing? Hammering a pencil into Anton's brain with a copy of Birds of the North Sea.' 'Is that good?' 'Definitive, according to the Observer.

It was baffling to her that anyone would seek out a condition that consumed so much of one's reading time.

As historian Max Hastings wrote, "Both Hitler and Stalin displayed obsessive stubbornness about Leningrad. That of Stalin was finally rewarded, amid a mountain of corpses. A people who could endure such things displayed qualities the Western Allies lacked, which were indispensable to the destruction of Nazism. In the auction of cruelty and sacrifice, the Soviet dictator proved the higher bidder.

am talking about this insane preoccupation with throwing balls of various shapes and sizes back and forth.

I don't hoard, exactly, but I get it. It's a response to our need and desire for purpose, order, definition, and a fortress. It's a calling that requires constant management, control, and obsessive attention.

A writer of fiction, a professional liar, is paradoxically obsessed with what is true.

My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of my father's. My father would tell a very, very long story, and the punch line would be in Yiddish.

I became a fanatic about healthy food in 1944.

I'm a compulsive everything.

The most important single thing is to focus obsessively on the customer. Our goal is to be earth's most customer-centric company.

Now I predict the future / merely by listening to echoes. A slamming door / can tell you everything you need to know. It's not a trick / only a simple matter of wisdom, an obsessive attention / to dreams. — Mary Jo Bang, from "The Oracle," Apology for Want: Poems . (Middlebury; 1st edition July 15, 1997)

We take a certain sick pride in the fact that we know the caloric and fat content of every possible food on the planet, and have an understandable disdain for nutritionists who attempt to tell us the caloric content of anything, when we are the gods of caloric content and have delusions of nutritional omniscience, when said nutritionist will attempt to explain that the average woman needs a daily diet of 2,000 or more calories when we ourselves have been doing JUST FUCKING FINE on 500.

Some people who are obsessed with food become gourmet chefs. Others become eating disorders.

Los números primos vuelven a la gente loca, pero literalmente

Although he always talked about technology and Oracle with passion and intensity, he didn't have the methodical relentlessness that made Bill Gates so formidable and feared. By his own admission, Ellison was not an obsessive grinder like Gates: "I am a sprinter. I rest, I sprint, I rest, I sprint again.

Perception...is not the confrontation of an ob-ject. The ob-ject only speaks to me laterally, i.e., it doesn't affect me frontally, but from the side by awakening complicity in me, its presence is obsessive because it is exogenous and endogenous . I.e., it "solicits me" (Valéry)...due to a kind of postural impregnation whereby I crystallized an entire order of nascent significations on this twig.

And no, I am not capable of experiencing the present with the same sort of attention to detail. But once the present becomes the past I seem to have no problem attending to it obsessively. : )

Each time she applied her lip gloss, she imagined another fleet of brain cells dying a horrible death.