Obsessiveness Quotes

#1. It's that athlete's obsessiveness - the need to prove yourself and work harder than anybody else. I think it's what helped me do well in the theater.

Cathy Rigby

#2. She smiled... and let loose a happy scream that seemed to release decades of insecurity, unhappiness, obsessiveness and worry.

Viola Shipman

#3. It's hard to get hot over a painting; there's no equivalent for teenage obsessiveness. Art obsession is ideology. Ideology can be made sexy, but it's easier in music.

Kim Gordon

#4. Pets inspire many different types of behaviour in their owners, mostly ranging from adoration to ridiculous obsessiveness, in my experience.

Sheherazade Goldsmith

#5. For a person who promised hope and civility in politics, Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiveness in blaming Mr. Bush.

Karl Rove

#6. In science, obsessiveness under psychological control can be a virtue.

E. O. Wilson

#7. Phelps, even at a young age, had a capacity for obsessiveness that made him an ideal athlete. Then again, all elite performers are obsessives.

Charles Duhigg

#8. A lot of stuff I do out of pure obsessiveness.

Jerry Seinfeld

#9. I have the obsessiveness of someone who's a sober, recovering addict displacing his addiction. Except I never had the addiction.

John Mayer

#10. I've always considered myself to be just average talent and what I have is a ridiculous insane obsessiveness for practice and preparation.

Will Smith

#11. It's also obsessiveness. I'll spend a lot of time working on a single sentence, debating over a dash or a colon, etc. I want things to be perfect. I know nothing will ever be as perfect as I want it, and this is very sad, but sometimes I can get close.

Mary J. Miller

#12. Not a lot of people would think that I spent most of my early years totally rebelling against anything I could, getting suspended from school, going on demonstrations.

Dan Stevens

#13. I can't do anything to death, doctor's orders.

Woody Allen

#14. Be confident in yourself, in your abilities, and in your goals. Then go for it.

Sharon Gannon

#15. Digital books and music are often different from their physical counterparts in that consumers buy licences to a work, revocable under an ongoing contract, rather than their own copies.

Jonathan Zittrain

#16. I have to say that elections, even in the most peaceful region, always make the hardest time for regional state institutions, including security structures.

Akhmad Kadyrov

#17. What I look for when I see a piece of art for the first time is some kind of emotional, intellectual experience, that's a combination of both of those things and is informed by my knowledge and something new that I see the artist doing.

Cheech Marin

#18. Great emotional singing isn't a destination, it's a journey, one to be taken time and again to different places with different moods and different audiences.

Deke Sharon

#19. The real problem with stories - if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death.

Neil Gaiman

#20. Nobody knew what form of intimidation Mr. Radley employed to keep Boo out of sight, but Jem figured that Mr. Radley kept him chained to the bed most of the time. Atticus said no, it wasn't that sort of thing, that there were other ways of making people into ghosts.

Harper Lee

#21. Those whom we most love are often the most alien to us.

Christopher Paolini

#22. I actually haven't been to Chick-fil-A for a while. My sister heard they donate money to screw over gay people, and I guess it started to feel weird eating there.

Becky Albertalli

#23. I think even a hero is someone who has sort of the flaw or imperfection of character. I remember Alice Walker saying that once - she'd written a novel about a civil rights hero, and it was someone who had this flaw, this central flaw.

Hector Tobar

#24. When every aspect of your life is impeccable, then you will find that there's no limit to your journeys into the infinite.

Frederick Lenz