Obsession Quotes

I feel like there's an obsession with pace right now in theater, with things being very fast and very witty and very loud, and I think we're all so freaked out about theater keeping audiences interested because everybody's so freaked out about theater becoming irrelevant.

Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

Determination becomes obsession and then it becomes all that matters.

People have this obsession. They want you to be like you were in 1969. They want you to, because otherwise their youth goes with you. It's very selfish, but it's understandable.

Obsessional does not necessarily mean sexual obsession, not even obsession for this, or for that in particular; to be an obsessional means to find oneself caught in a mechanism, in a trap increasingly demanding and endless.

Zero-sum thinking is an obsession of mine, but mostly in economics.

Do you agree that when there's tension and an obsession to want to hit the ball is when you hit it worst? You have to be loose.

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession.

I think the camera was always my obsession, the camera movements. Because for me it's the most important thing in the move, the camera, because without the camera, film is just a stage or television - nothing.

People can get obsessed with romance, they can get obsessed with political paranoia, they can get obsessed with horror. It's isn't the fault of the subject matter that creates the obsession, I don't think.

I never lose an opportunity to speak about my obsession: humankind and the environment.

Dancing is my obsession. My life.

I have an intense obsession with making films. I not only love to make films, I perhaps need to make films.

In the U.K., there is a sort of obsession with class.

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

The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.

An obsession is where something will not leave your mind.

Cure for an obsession: get another one.

Under popular culture's obsession with a naive inclusion, everything is O.K.

I believe that 'advocacy journalism' is not an oxymoron. If that means that I'm going to disrupt the cable, partisan fracas of obsession over what this means from left and right, then so be it. I will be disruptive of it.

I had an obsession that I was male characters from movies.

I like sweaters. I have a sweater obsession, I guess.

The obsession with performance left no room for the development of the intuitive or spiritual impact of space and form other than the aesthetic of the machine itself.

The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work.