Quotes About Obsessive

Daniel's mind is a scorpion stinging itself to death.

I used to kiss things all the time. I would have to kiss everything, just about everything. The headboard on my bed, the steering wheel in my car. I think it was an OCD thing.

I stay up nights and fiddle with my opera designs. It's a bit obsessive. That's why I can't do it all the time.

After obsessively Googling symptoms for four hours, I discovered 'obsessively Googling symptoms' is a symptom of hypochondria.

I would love to be a voice in this maelstrom of chaos and obsessive celebrity infatuation that says, 'Let's talk about something that matters'.

Insomnia is a variant of Tourette's--the waking brain races, sampling the world after the world has turned away, touching it everywhere, refusing to settle, to join the collective nod. The insomniac brain is a sort of conspiracy theorist as well, believing too much in its own paranoiac importance--as though if it were to blink, then doze, the world might be overrun by some encroaching calamity, which its obsessive musings are somehow fending off.

Molto spesso l'attività intellettuale della donna si manifesta in un rimuginare il passato chiedendosi che cosa nella propria o nell'altrui esistenza avrebbe dovuto essere fatto diversamente, oppure nel costruire ossessivamente degli artificiosi nessi causali. Questo atteggiamento mentale viene di solito definito pensiero, mentre in realtà non è altro che una forma inutile e improduttiva di attività intellettuale, una specie di autotortura.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

High performers obsessively research their dreams from a multitude of sources. To become world-class, you have to know who has already cracked the struggle you face ahead.

I never started collecting figures or anything like that because I'm slightly completist with things, so if I start down a path, I'm worried where it'll end up - i.e. With a wall of something!

Nixon was a bad loser. He hated losing worse than death, and that is why I enjoyed him. We were both football fans, both addicts; and on some days, nothing else mattered.

Of course I have an ego, but you have to have an ego. You have to be incredibly competitive. I can get competitive at times, way too much, and it becomes a little bit obsessive.

All directors are control freaks and very obsessive. I get the feeling that directors as kids, they all have had a childhood with not too much contact with other kids. They constructed their own reality and they continue to do it. It's a funny breed, directors.

Spicy food and I have a close relationship—an obsessive one, in fact. If it's spicy, I want it. I want to sweat and shake and go half blind from the searing pain . . . which, now that I put it that way, seems really suggestive. But spicy stuff is addictive. That's a known fact of science.

She felt like Captain Ahab, for the first time sighting his great white whale.

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change

I]t's through our obsession with meaning that we create meaninglessness.

Los padres obsesivos saben quiénes son y generalmente se sienten orgullosos de ello; los padres no obsesivos también saben quiénes son y tienden a burlarse de ellos.) La mayor

What we see of madness is mostly a set of defense mechanisms against it, against the void and the anxiety that are madness. We see the obsessive ceremonies, the phobias, the hysterical symptoms, but all that is already part of a solution of the problem, unsatisfactory as it may be.

WarGames had been one of Halliday's all-time favorite movies. Which was why I had watched it over three dozen times.

because the guy was oblivious, anyway, he was so into what he was doing: rooting through the ranks of rubbish, sorting it out, putting some on the central worktable, then moving some of that selected shit around, stacking it, arraying it, then circulating around the table and sizing the shitpile up, from different angles, with incendiary eyes ... ; and then, the next evening, I saw there was more shit, the guy must have been bringing it in...

Being a writer-director can sometimes make you incredibly blinkered.

When we talk about earth's most customer-centric company ... we want other companies to look at Amazon and see us as the standard bearer for obsessive focus on the customer as opposed to obsessive focus on the competitor.

For eight or 10 years, I got wrapped up in chasing records. Everything was a number. Didn't matter what I won, it was a number. Every horse I rode was a number.