Quotes About Obsession

The main problem with this great obsession for saving time is very simple: you can't save time. You can only spend it. But you can spend it wisely or foolishly.

for close to a century Arab society and Arab politics have been commandeered by an anti-Jewish obsession that has known no limits: It harnessed the Nazis, promoted the Final Solution, launched five wars against Israel, embarked on a campaign of global terrorism, strangled the world's economy with oil blackmail, and now, in Iraq and elsewhere, is attempting to build nuclear bombs for the great Armageddon.

What matters is hunger. Appetite. In this way I have become what I behold.

Derrida had an irresistible desire to seduce. And if he almost never spoke of his relationship to women, this was because his obsession with secrecy was greater in this area than in any other. But many people knew that 'the feminine' was, for him, always in the plural. If Derrida vaunted faithfulness in his reply to the Proust questionnaire, this was because every relationship was for him a unique, irreplaceable event; so he felt capable of faithfulness to many people.

I was in China when Pokemon fever hit, and I got it bad. But as I got older, I didn't stay with it. My binder full of rares has since disappeared. I have refused to play the other games like the newest 'Pokemon X/Y' out of some misplaced hipster angst.

That was the big secret. Walt would do things over and over again, with no regard to money, to get things perfect.

It's not like the average lawyer or doctor is a physical Adonis. But it is amazing how many intelligent, obsessed people are driven in their physical regimen as well.

My only regret is the media's obsession with the past.

When I like something, I wear it into the ground, then really regret it.

I love shopping for shoes. I'm a big shoe-lover. Shopping is definitely something that I do on a regular basis.

I am a great movie buff, and I devour films regularly.

Cellphones are very addictive. Even if one goes to rehab to get rid of this addiction, it's not going to work.

What love is depends on where you are in relation to it. Secure in it, it can feel as mundane and necessary as air - you exist within it, almost unnoticing. Deprived of it, it can feel like an obsession; all consuming - a physical pain.

I enjoy slaughtering beasts, and I think of my relatives constantly.

This is what I do. I look at brains. I'm fascinated by it. I can spend hours doing it. In fact, if I want to relax, that's one way I can relax.

Some people say that I need to take a break and relax a little bit, but basketball is all that I know. This is what I've grown up doing and when I call my mother and my father, they talk to me about the game. It's just embedded in me and it's pretty much all I care about.

As a filmmaker, you complete a film you have spent years obsessively making, and you know the release prints will never look quite the same; prints get scratched and dirty.

I am a hip-hop fanatic, and rock fanatic.

Big guys and historical figures are often linked because people back in the day were not obsessed with their figure.

Well, maybe it has to do with the fact that I was a complete Hitchcock fanatic from age 9.

I'm a big Hitchcock fan, and I love anything by Almodovar.

I crave ideas, and when an idea hits me, it grips me and it tortures me until I master it.

I don't really have any hobbies.

Beware the hobby that eats.