Quotes About Obsessive

It was insidious. It was, to them, although they didn't put it this way, similar to the kind of dark Clinton-like conspiracies that Republicans were more wont to accuse liberals of—Whitewater, Benghazi, Emailgate. That is, an obsessive narrative that leads to investigations, which lead to other investigations, and to more obsessive no-escape media coverage. This was modern politics: blood-sport conspiracies that were about trying to destroy people and careers.

She broke my heart, so now I have to write about her forever. It made everything different. It's something that can only happen once.

Writers end up writing about their obsessions. Things that haunt them; things they can't forget; stories they carry in their bodies waiting to be released.

As Herman Melville wrote of that seagoing monster of a man Captain Ahab, "All mortal greatness is but disease.

The way other people fantasize about surprise inheritances, firts-glance love, and endless white empyreal pastures, Mitchell dreamed of an erupting supervolcano that would bury North America under a foot of hot ash.

Dir-se-ia que a avidez súbita, a ideia fixa do dinheiro o transformava, inclusive fisicamente.

Honestly, Jonathan, I begin to think you are suffering from some terrible form of insanity the idée fixe. People may drown in your ornamental waters or perish in your snow-drifts, and all you can think of is your hell-inspired party.

I'm often called obsessive. I don't think I am ... but I agree that when I decide to go in one direction I really go in that direction.

Not only are you anal, but you are anal about things most people have never even heard of.

Francis Galton (1822-1911), Darwin's cousin, was keen on evolution and heredity. He founded "Individual Differences" and discovered the uniqueness of finger-prints (1892). Galton was also an obsessive counter and measurer. He even counted yawns and coughs at lectures and theatres – trying to produce a "boredom measure"!

We detect mistakes with our orbital frontal cortex, part of the frontal lobe, on the underside of the brain, just behind our eyes. Scans show that the more obsessive a person is, the more activated the orbital frontal cortex is.

No one seemed to think it was odd that a Dumpster-diving urban pig farmer was in their midst. In fact, I came to learn that the restaurant industry was filled with other obsessive freaks like Samin, who would never buy a factory-made pickle. I was just another one of those freaks.

Antes de las entrevistas, los alumnos estudiaban obsesivamente. Y después bebían para celebrarlo o para consolarse. Como consecuencia de ello, durante los once días de Admisiones la mayoría de los alumnos andaban nerviosos y exhaustos, en el mejor de los casos.

Very well, but remember this... I'll be looking at you when you're laid on the cross and the twelve blows are crashing down on your limbs. When the crowd is finally tired of your screams and wandered home, I will climb up through your blood and sit beside you. I will look deep into your eyes... and drop by drop I will trickle my disgust into them like burning acid until... finally... you perish.

It was one of his qualities that most frustrated me, how once you had a black tick in his book, you were pretty much done for.

Self-criticism, then, runs non-stop in a desperate attempt to avoid rejection-inducing mistakes. Drasticizing becomes obsessive to help the child foresee and avoid punishment and worsening abandonment. At the same time, it continuously fills her psyche with stories and images of catastrophe. The survivor becomes imprisoned by a jailer who will accept nothing but perfection. He is chauffeured by a hysterical driver who sees nothing but danger in every turn of the road.

Further confusion also arises in the case of ADHD [Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder], as well as obsessive/compulsive disorder, both of which are sometimes more accurately described as fixated flight responses to trauma [see the 4F's below]. This is also true of ADD [Attention Deficit Disorder] and some depressive and dissociative disorders which similarly can more accurately be described as fixated freeze responses to trauma.

Self-criticism, then, runs non-stop in a desperate attempt to avoid rejection-inducing mistakes. Drasticizing becomes obsessive to help the child foresee and avoid punishment and worsening abandonment. At the same time, it continuously fills her psyche with stories and images of catastrophe.