Compulsive Behavior Quotes

#1. Manchester United could have any goalkeeper in the world. I was a 23-year-old kid from New Jersey who, from an early age, had to cope with Tourette's Syndrome, a brain disorder that can trigger speech and facial tics, vocal outbursts and obsessive compulsive behavior.

Tim Howard

#2. Hiding our fears behind compulsive behavior of any kind severely limits our ability to be ourselves.

Sue Patton Thoele

#3. Compulsive behavior occurs when the urge to act out is greater than our will to say no. Recovery then, is the process of reversing that equation.

Roger Stark

#4. Awareness is a way you keep yourself company. When you are aware you are being compulsive, you are no longer locked in the behavior. You have a choice to stop. That choice
and therefore awareness itself
is freedom.

Geneen Roth

#5. There's homophobia in every corner and pocket of this world but at the core you just love someone and want to make mixed tapes for them.

Sara Quin

#6. How did his brain come to derive comfort from fishing rather than from compulsive sexual behavior? At this point we simply don't know. Neurofeedback changes brain connectivity patterns; the mind follows by creating new patterns of engagement.

Bessel A. Van Der Kolk

#7. From heaven's standpoint, all spiritual victories are won not primarily in the pulpit, not primarily in the klieg light of publicity, nor yet through the ostentatious blaring of trumpets, but in the secret place of prayer.

Paul Billheimer

#8. When I sold my first company at 30, I could have done whatever I wanted to do.

Shai Agassi

#9. It was precisely these scenes he missed the most from his own life with Willem, the forgettable, in-between moments in which nothing seemed to be happening but whose absence was singularly unfillable.

Hanya Yanagihara

#10. My grandmother certainly does not care for celebrity.

Prince William

#11. We ought not to attach ourselves to beings, it is not beings who exist in reality and are amenable to description, but ideas.

Marcel Proust

#12. I try to keep in touch with the details ... I also look at the product daily. That doesn't mean you interfere, but it's important occasionally to show the ability to be involved. It shows you understand what's happening.

Rupert Murdoch

#13. It is absolutely correct to say that if you can't learn from the events of Nazi Germany, you will not be able to grasp the ... danger of the radical Muslim world today. You are simply hiding.

Alfons Heck

#14. An equal. That's all she wants and it feels sickening and strange that I never understood it until now. I thought loving her made us equal, but love doesn't necessarily mean that I listened to her. I listened...to what I thought was best for her...to what was best for me.

Katie McGarry

#15. You're right to want to minimize your compulsive physical behavior in the workplace before it bothers your co-workers, but I hope very much you can also give yourself credit for the work you're already doing.

Mallory Ortberg

#16. It is necessary to shed old ideas, habits, opinions and even companions sometimes.

Marlo Morgan

#17. There may be few instances in which the superstition that only measurable magnitudes can be important has done positive harm in the economic field: but the present inflation and employment problems are a very serious one.

Friedrich August Von Hayek

#18. Is that the ultimate need? To secure some agent to act as a salve, a bandage, a cover-up, concealer over the black eye, as opposed to facing the issue head on. Nobody wants to address the fist. We'd all much rather take something for the pain and make it all go away.

Katandra Jackson Nunnally

#19. The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without.

Phillips Brooks

#20. I told myself over and over again, do it for its images, for the pleasure you get out of it. Do it for your friends If you get more, that's a bonus.

Patricia Rozema