Quotes About Obsession

I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me.

The trouble with addiction is that you can park the car but you can never switch off the engine or stop yourself from hearing the revs.

As I started to buy cars, I didn't know that I was building a collection. I just wanted the cars I was dreaming about. Once you drive a good one, it is like having a fever.

Everybody has this fond association with the car from Back to the Future, but most people have never seen one. I've seen people drive off the berm trying to take pictures. It ends up being dangerous.

That'd be just what I need: a rash of car thefts across America, committed by dedicated readers.

Most people get excited over new cars; I get excited over death certificates. It's no wonder my husband worries about my state of mind.

I'm a car freak, I never usually have one for more than a year before I change it.

Oversized houses, like oversized cars, seem to be a particularly American fixation.

The more you're obsessed by something, the better chance you have of achieving it.

When you're told not to be mindful of something, it becomes an obsession. Nevertheless, the mindfulness is on the out-breath, and there's some sense of just waiting for the next out-breath, a sense of no project. One could just let go at the end of the out-breath. Breath goes out and dissolves, and there could be some sense of letting go completely. Nothing to hold on to until the next out-breath.

If people don't read, that's their choice; a lifelong book habit may itself be some sort of affliction.

Matt knew only that he must see her again, and forever.

Then I fell in love and everything went to hell.

Mileage craziness is a serious condition that exists in many forms. It can hit unsuspecting travelers while driving cars, motorcycles, riding in planes, crossing the country on bicycles or on foot. The symptoms may lead to obsessively placing more importance on how many miles are traveled than on the real reason for the traveling...On foot, in a van, on a fleet motorcycle or on a bicycle, a person must be very careful not to become overly concerned with arriving.

It is just as crazy not to be crazy about Christ as it is to be crazy about anything else.

There is little passion for anything except pleasure and comfort and security. Indeed, passion is confused with fanaticism.

The fanatic is certain that he is right.

Ambition interests me because it's such a surefire indicator of damage.

A fanatic is one who redoubles his effort when he has forgotten his aim.

has profoundly modified the whole trend of modern civilisation, imposing her thought, her standards, her literary forms, her imagery, her visions and dreams wherever she is known. But Germany is the supreme example of her triumphant spiritual tyranny. The Germans have imitated the Greeks more slavishly: they have been obsessed by them more utterly…

know that being fixated on winning (or more likely, not losing) is counterproductive, especially when it causes you to lose control of your emotions. What's more, obsessing about winning is a loser's game: The most we can hope for is to create the best possible conditions for success, then let go of the outcome. The ride is a lot more fun that way.

And yet as a coach, I know that being fixated on winning (or more likely, not losing) is counterproductive, especially when it causes you to lose control of your emotions. What's more, obsessing about winning is a loser's game: The most we can hope for is to create the best possible conditions for success, then let go of the outcome. The ride is a lot more fun that way.

We watch Paracelsus in Basle as though seeing a man run headlong toward a precipice. Like an indestructible lunatic, he will do so again and again throughout his life.

Morality was the preserve – literally – of the middle classes; those at either end of the social scale were not obsessed with the moral glue that gave a new class its sense of cohesion.