Quotes About Obsession

Reading 'Moby-Dick' helps you discover how to live.

Beneath all of these addictions is this disease, this control disease which is the mark of our society.

I would never dispute the fact that music is my greatest love.

In writing 'The Humans,' I obsessed over the financial district and the architecture.

See, I will always shop, and that's sort of a problem. Clothes are always exploding out of my closet!

I happen to be a huge 'Lord of the Rings' fan. I do an annual marathon of the extended editions.

I'm a really big 'Lord of the Rings' fan. I have all the extended editions.

Collecting has been my great extravagance. It's a way of being. I collect for the same reason that I eat too much-I'm one of nature's shoppers.

Who can blind lover's eyes?

I'm a little bit of a fabric lunatic.

Facebook is my life.

Well, c'mon, everyone is a Facebook addict!

Sometimes you fixate on something so much that everything else fades away.

One of the ways my first novel failed was that I was too in love with my characters.

I had fallen in love with doing television.

When the press falls in love, they fall in love hard.

Fame attracts lunatics.

There's some teams - the Cubs are one of them - where there's just too many fans.

A recipe I've seen work in early-stage startups is a small tight-knit group of passionate people who are obsessed with their vision of how to fix a particular industry. Conversely, teams composed of people with a lot of specialized experience at running a large business are not as likely to do very well in the first year or two of a startup.

I hope that readers will tear through my books because they can't stop themselves - and then, maybe, read them again and find new things there.

I suspect the Left's obsession with raising tax rates is not about helping the poor or middle class or about lowering the budget deficit, but about tearing down the rich.

Tears For Fears is my ultimate passion.

Securing and attracting the best talent is an obsession in the tech industry for good reason. It's your main asset; it's your edge.

I worry about technical details - did I mix the cello half a decibel too high? Things like that.