Quotes About Obsession

Even in my first analysis of a depressive psychosis, I was immediately struck by its structural similarity with obsessional neurosis.

I believe that all my work explores the human desire or obsession for utopias, and the structure of all my works is the search for utopias lost and rediscovered.

I'd gone through life being obsessed about my sexuality. People would ask about relationships, girlfriends, you start referring to people as 'they' so there's no judgment and you can be ambiguous. People around me knew, but I still struggled with talking about it openly.

I think my wife has struggled a bit because of how obsessive I get with what I eat and stuff.

The discussion of ideas as opposed to the American narcissistic obsession with what's going on with the self, that's the general thing people are talking about.

I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.

When the entrepreneur is obsessed with the product and the company has organized all of its activities around that, it's very powerful.

I had a really, really bad case of it. Everybody hears OCD and they think, 'Okay, you like to clean or be organized.' That's really not what it is, especially not for everybody. In my case, it was me being super self-conscious, to the point where it was debilitating.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Jazz musicians, in a way, are nerds. We are so in our world.

When I moved out here to California, I became obsessed with geology. It's impossible not to be interested in the earth if you live in a place like this. I started to read a lot of geology, much to the horror of my friends.

I never thought I was going to lose the first title fight. I was literally obsessed with the outcome only, and I couldn't imagine any other way possible. I thought I was going to explode and die before I lost. But I lost.

My obsession with outer space is my way of being different. I make astronaut music. It takes an astronaut so long to get to space - that's how long it takes to catch up on my music.

People have always been obsessed by celebrities. There are just more outlets and opportunities to make a living exploiting that obsession nowadays.

They appear to have become so attached to their outrage that they are even more outraged that they won't be able to be outraged anymore.

I'd crawl over broken glass for Elle MacPherson or Cindy Crawford.

I don't know - sometimes I catch myself being dark, and it's annoying. I think, 'Get over it.' I bore myself. But sometimes, like everybody, I'm sure I am obsessive.

I have an obsession with mortality. I saw a friend die when I was 18, and I can't get over it.

If you tell me I can't eat something, I'll obsess over it and end up overeating!

It's always so difficult when you've left your kids to go to work every day - you want people to like it. I just agonise over it, but I'm obsessive because I love what I do.

I gave my life to Christ, and I thought that would be it for me, and He was, like, 'No, you're not finished with acting; acting is not finished with you. This is your talent. Go back into it, but you're going back into it with a heart that's not obsessive over it.'

A capacity for going overboard is a requisite for a full-grown mind.

I do tend to overdo everything.

I think directors can become overly infatuated by gilt and gold, and the word 'lavish' and everything being magnificent.