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Quotes About Obsession

Baseball was one-hundred percent of my life.
~ Ty Cobb
The obsession with running is really an obsession with the potential for more and more life.
~ George A. Sheehan
You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.
~ Jane Fonda
To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!
~ Bryan Procter
It's amazing how coke encompasses everything in your life. Addicts cannot confront life because they only think of their next hit. I ruined life for my parents, my sister and all my friends.
~ Kirstie Alley
The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.
~ Iris Murdoch
Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.
~ Alberto Giacometti
It's like my whole life never happened, When I see you, it's as if I never had a thought. I know this dream, it might be crazy, But it's the only one I've got.
~ Bob Dylan
Being the object of Alfred Hitchcock's obsession was horrific, but while he ruined my career, he could never ruin my life.
~ Tippi Hedren
Dancing is my obsession. My life.
~ Mikhail Baryshnikov
Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.
~ Bill Shankly
You know how sad your life is when you know the release date of DVDs.
~ Heston Blumenthal
The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.
~ Arthur Miller
Our life-style contains more Thanatos than Eros, for egotism, exploitation, deception, obsession and addiction have more place in us than eroticism, joy, generosity and spontaneity.
~ Germaine Greer
If you're an addict, it controls your life and your life becomes uncontrollable. It's boring and painful, filling your system with something that makes you stare at your shoes for six hours.
~ James Taylor
I am attracted to the dark side of life!
~ Famke Janssen
Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life.
~ Arne Jacobsen
straw or a speck of dust anywhere.
~ Jilly Cooper
Others said this was a sign the Glorious Revolution had born bitter fruit. We had become accustomed to lies, blind loyalty, too obsessed with appearing strong to openly discuss our weaknesses.
~ Jim Geraghty
Hard work isn't just a means to an end—it's an obsession.
~ Jim Knight
Be obsessed about results. Combine passion, commitment and a hard work ethic with thinking fast, creating alternatives and marshaling resources to achieve results.
~ Jim Knight
Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.
~ Jim Morrison
Golf is not a game, it's bondage. It was obviously devised by a man torn with guilt, eager to atone for his sins.
~ Jim Murray