Quotes About Obsession

That which you love most will then become both your strength and your weakness.

An artist must be passionately in love with her art. Obsessed or possessed ? go mad for what you believe in.

If it doesn't sound insane, I would only talk about you and the only word which would come out of my mouth, will be your name.

What would I do to possess her? Would I change my cellular structure? Turn my back on my identity?

It was no ordinary DESIRE that survived disappointment, discouragement, temporary defeat, criticism, and the constant reminding of waste of time. It was a BURNING DESIRE! AN OBSESSION!

Every human being who reaches the age of understanding of the purpose of money, wishes for it. Wishing will not bring riches. But desiring riches with a state of mind that becomes an obsession, then planning definite ways and means to acquire riches, and backing those plans with persistence which does not recognize failure, will bring riches.

OBSESSÃO QUE CONSUMIA SUA VIDA, um DESEJO ARDENTE

He created a plan by which to attain that purpose. But he BURNED ALL BRIDGES BEHIND HIM. He stood by his DESIRE until it became the dominating obsession of his life—and—finally, a fact.

the subconscious becomes obsessed with defending its established negative idea. And the harder you "try" to do something, the more the subconscious resists and the more difficult it becomes.

Wishing will not bring riches. But desiring riches with a state of mind that becomes an obsession, then planning definite ways and means to acquire riches, and backing those plans with persistence which does not recognize failure, will bring riches.

What a different story men would have to tell if only they would adopt a DEFINITE PURPOSE, and stand by that purpose until it had time to become an all-consuming obsession!

we are led to the excessive use of specific products. This concentration is harmful.

Drogo is obsessed and blinded by the possibility of an unlikely event;

o acesso a dados aumenta a intervenção, fazendo com que nos comportemos como o sujeito neurótico.

At first, when an idea, a poem, or the desire to write takes hold of you, work is a pleasure, a delight, and your enthusiasm knows no bounds. But later on you work with difficulty, doggedly, desperately. For once you have committed yourself to a particular work, inspiration changes its form and becomes an obsession, like a love-affair… which haunts you night and day! Once at grips with a work, we must master it completely before we can recover our idleness.

He smoked a cigarette, standing in the dark and listening to her undress. She made sea sounds; something flapped like a sail; there was the creak of ropes; then he heard the wave-against-a-wharf smack of rubber on flesh. Her call for him to hurry was a sea-moan, and when he lay beside her, she heaved, tidal, moon-driven.

Unable to sleep for the third night in a row, he continued to dwell obsessively on the circumstances of the ship's sinking. He could not get the creature out of his mind.

To me, the white whale is that wall, shoved near to me.

As Starbuck discovers, simply being a good guy with a positive worldview is not enough to stop a force of nature like Ahab, who feeds on the fears and hatreds in us all.

Walt Disney seldom dabbled. Everyone who knew him remarked on his intensity; when something intrigued him, he focused himself entirely as if it were the only thing that mattered.

I'll never understand how a man can live his life With his finger on the self-destruct button, Holding it there day after day, Blinded by an obsession to press it But lacking the conviction to do even that.

Scythe Anastasia is not your concern. She's my only concern.

You're confusing boredom with obsession.

It's funny how a flame can only burn your hand if you move too slow, Hayden says. You can tease it all you want and it never gets you, if you're quick enough. Are you a pyro? Connor asks. You're confusing boredom with obsession.