Quotes About Obsessing

#1. A mother who is obsessing about being thin and dieting and exercising is not going to be a very good mother.

Jane Fonda

#2. I finally understand that it's okay to be a little afraid of things but that obsessing over them does not mean you have any more control over what you fear.

Jen Kirkman

#3. Worrying, obsessing, and controlling are illusions. They are tricks we play on ourselves.

Melody Beattie

#4. There's no need to fear the oblivion after we're gone if we never cared about the oblivion that came before we were born. Cheer up. Death obsessing is for boozy existentialists and bad poets.

Tom Jokinen

#5. I started realising that the themes running through all of my novels were really haunting and obsessing me about my own life.

Dani Shapiro

#6. Each of us has a finite reservoir of energy in any given day. Whatever amount of energy we spend obsessing about missteps we have made, decisions that do not go our way or the belief we have been treated unfairly is energy no longer available to add value in the world.

Tony Schwartz

#7. I'm not sitting somewhere dwelling on the past. I'm not fretting or obsessing about something in the future.

Jennifer Aniston

#8. laughed out loud. She was being ridiculous. She was obsessing over a boy she hadn't met, so much that she could almost sense what it would feel like for him to push her against the

Kate Forster

#9. There are always going to be Muslim atrocities! Whenever the media starts obsessing with ISIS, I think you're hiding something.

Ann Coulter

#10. In a period of such obsessing political controversy as the present, I believe that I am that strange animal, the individual without any politics at all.

Wyndham Lewis

#11. I spend a lot of time obsessing about getting a dignified eight hours' sleep.

Miranda July

#12. There are times, especially when I was just getting into PC gaming, where I spent way less time playing than obsessing about the quality of the play.

Palmer Luckey

#13. Love is a lot like humanity, neither one is perfect. I'd spent years obsessing over perfection. I'd spent years living inside a bubble thinking that perfection equals love,but it doesn't. It's not love unless it's messy and wild and flawed because nothing real is perfect.

Lauren Hammond

#14. It seems astounding to me now that the video games are perhaps as important as the movie themselves. And people will spend 2 or 3 years obsessing about the video game in exactly the same way that they'd be obsessing about the movie if they were working on that.

John Cleese

#15. Everything can be brought to the extreme. Food is good, overeating is bad. Possessions are good, hoarding is bad. Guilt is good, obsessing about guilt is bad. But I think guilt is good because I'm like, "Hey, I just stabbed that guy and I feel pretty good."

Lino Rulli

#16. What we are left with then is the present, the only time where miracles happen. We place the past and the future as well into the hands of God. The biblical statement that "time shall be no more" means that we will one day live fully in the present, without obsessing about past or future.

Marianne Williamson

#17. The cup is both half full and half empty; it has never been one or the other. Stop obsessing over the trivial cup and drink the medicine you've been given.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#18. And as for you and those damn ten pounds you're always complaining about? I think you should just stop obsessing and start living.

Camille Pagan

#19. Canada has little pictures of us in its bedroom, right? Canada spends all of its time thinking about the United States, obsessing over the United States. It's unrequited love between Canada and the United States.

Tucker Carlson

#20. There are certain parts of a classic nerd's brain that can destroy that person - obsessing about things to the detriment of everything else in your life. But those are the same tools that you can use to turn everything around.

Chris Hardwick

#21. Plant- and animal-based foods are hugely different in terms of their nutrient contents, and watching what foods you consume is far more important than obsessing over calorie-counting without respect to where those calories come from.

T. Colin Campbell

#22. If I let a blue mood run rampant, before I know it I'm obsessing about the color of the satin lining in my coffin - will it match my dress? That's when I feel like Alice in Cancerland falling down the rabbit hole and just have to stop.

Kris Carr

#23. As a New Yorker, or wherever I am, I just want to know I can get our of the house in five minutes if I have to and not have to spend a bunch of time obsessing in the mirror, trying on a million different options. Now, I just know what works.

Natasha Lyonne

#24. Late night chaining of videos and basically obsessing are rare for me, and often I've never even seen the videos of my favourite songs. That said, in terms of my own personal magic, video has probably rated lower than most music fans.

Kieron Gillen

#25. Is the professor who insists we read Ernest Hemingway again instead of Gertrude Stein "obsessing"? Because although I did a BA in English, an MFA in Poetry, and a year's worth of a PhD, Stein was an author I had to discover on my own. She wasn't on the syllabus anywhere in all that time.

Laura Mullen

#26. But I am doing that thing I always do-the obsessing about what I don't have, the ignoring where I am now.

Amy Reed

#27. Obsessing over the future is not how God wants us to live, because showing us the future is not God's way.

Kevin DeYoung

#28. Twitter could not be described as it was: a mechanism by which teenagers tormented each other into suicide while obsessing about ephemeral celebrities and on which Adeline argued about whether or not she hated the victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory of 1911.

Jarett Kobek

#29. I lay awake long into the night, obsessing over Lucy's failings. Never mind the drugs and adultery; she seemed to lack the most basic parental instincts for keeping the children out of harm's way. The drip, drip, drip of her poor judgment and neglect was pushing me over the edge.

James Whitfield Thomson

#30. For the average person, taken to their sick bed, it takes a serious bout of pneumonia or a full body cast to completely forget the life they had prior to falling off the rollercoaster. I, however, will do this over a paper cut on my thumb, obsessing of said cut and being generally consumed by it.

Sloane Crosley

#31. When you're obsessing about one thing, you can reach insights about how to solve hard problems. If you have too many things to think about, you'll get to the superficial solution, not the brilliant one.

Evan Williams

#32. We were the first generation without a draft," he says matter-of-factly. "We didn't need to worry about life and death, so we channeled all that time and energy into obsessing over this TV show or that comic book." This

Glen Weldon

#33. Don't waste your time obsessing over stupid actions of stupid people

Elle Kennedy

#34. People are cooking less but obsessing about it more.

Dougie Poynter

#35. But i am content to live in the moment, and allow myself the daily pleasure of obsessing. nothing lasts forever, i tell myself. especially the good stuff. although typically you aren't faced with a hard deadline

Emily Giffin

#36. I realized that I loved using computers to create something, but being an architect just wasn't going to keep me interested. The idea of a life spent obsessing over bathroom details for an Upper East Side penthouse was pretty depressing.

Joseph Kosinski

#37. If we spend our time obsessing with the future or regretting the past, then we will never live. Tomorrow will always be tomorrow and yesterday cannot be changed.

Jon Foreman

#38. I think it's worth trying to be a mother who delights in who her children are, in their knock-knock jokes and earnest questions. A mother who spends less time obsessing about what will happen, or what has happened, and more time reveling in what is.

Ayelet Waldman

#39. One essential to success is that your desire be an all-obsessing one, your thoughts and aim be coordinated, and your energy be concentrated and applied without letup.

Claude M. Bristol

#40. She was certainly now obsessing him! Beyond bearing or belief. His whole being was overwhelmed by her... by her mentality, really. For of course the physical resemblance of the lance-corporal was mere subterfuge. Lance-corporals do not resemble young ladies.

Ford Madox Ford

#41. Try to write in a directly emotional way, instead of being too subtle or oblique. Don't be afraid of your material or your past. Be afraid of wasting any more time obsessing about how you look and how people see you. Be afraid of not getting your writing done.

Anne Lamott

#42. Try to focus on the things that you do have instead of obsessing over things you don't

Hannah Hart

#43. I've found that giving 100% to your job isn't the same as giving 100% of your life to your job. Very often when I thought I was giving 100% of my life to my job, I was simply obsessing over something.

Bruce Springsteen

#44. Baseball is a game that shouts, 'Slow Down' to America. Stop tweeting, texting, blogging, watching cable news, and obsessing about polls, lost planes, and focus-group-driven politicians.

Mike Barnicle

#45. I've found that sitting around and obsessing about projects moving forward, when there's actually nothing I can do about it, at a certain point, is really counter-productive.

Danny Strong

#46. This sort of obsessing would get him nowhere. He needed to move on, to get going, to look forward.

Jodi Picoult

#47. Mattie sat at the table, obsessing, orbiting around herself. She was sick of her worried, hostile mind. It would have killed her long before, she felt, if it hadn't needed the transportation.

Anne Lamott

#48. It's nice that I can go down the road of obsessing over this smiley-face bullshit so maybe I can get free from it and think about something else-it's so banal and yet so crazy!

Nate Lowman

#49. This was something that was obsessing me and creating a writer's block. To get involved and get stuck in, get the proper information about what's going on has really helped.

Thom Yorke

#50. Obsessing about weight is a big old waste of time

Anne Hathaway

#51. Make a conscious effort to live in the present today. When you catch yourself obsessing over the past or worrying about the future just remember you are exactly where you need to be right now.

Demi Lovato

#52. It's time to stop obsessing about overhead and start focusing on progress. Change charity, and charity can change the world.

Dan Pallotta

#53. Obsessing over something that has jarred your world is called coping.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#54. I say if you're not obsessing about something, you might not be into it quite enough.

Chris Thile

#55. Don't let this anger ruin your life any more than it already has. If you want to every achieve happiness, don't dwell on the past. Instead, start living. What is the point of obsessing that has already happened, and that you cannot change? Live! And be merry.

Kien Nguyen

#56. We can't live our lives obsessing about the past or mourning the future. We have a responsibility to ourselves and to each other to live every moment of our lives the best we can.

Lisa Mangum

#57. As his mother said, once you started worrying about the future, you started obsessing about the past.

Cassandra Clare

#58. Each would collapse beneath the process. We've just wrongly assumed that it has to happen all at once, and we give up at the thought of it. We are A-to-Z thinkers, fretting about A, obsessing over Z, yet forgetting all about B through Y. We

Ryan Holiday

#59. Obsessing about one medium versus another is a waste of energy - it is the cultivation and management of ideas, and the people who generate them, that is the crucial factor.

John Hegarty

#60. We ask our brain to stop worrying, stop obsessing, stop dreaming the same scary dreams again and again. But our brain rarely takes requests.

Dan Poblocki

#61. I spent a good amount of my time - like a lot of guys my age - obsessing and blowing things up with G.I. Joes. I know it well.

D.J. Cotrona

#62. You can miss an experience by obsessing over how to contain it.

Gina Greenlee

#63. I work all the time because it's a great distraction and it keeps me from sitting home and obsessing morbidly.

Woody Allen

#64. I'm certainly very influenced by what you would call 'contemporary headline horror,' stuff that is true crime or for one reason or another catches our attention in the media, those strange cases that we end up obsessing about. I'm always influenced by weird anecdotes and news.

Dan Chaon

#65. am i crazy for laying awake at night obsessing over you or is it natural

Katelyn Douglas

#66. Obsessing on evil is boring. Rousing fear is a hackneyed shtick. Wallowing is despair is a bad habit. Indulging in cynicism is akin to committing a copycat crime.

Rob Brezsny

#67. The Democrats are obsessing about raising tax rates, while the GOP talks about closing loopholes.

Bob Beauprez

#68. I find that going to bed without my phone or an iPad makes me sleep better and helps me wake up without obsessing over emails. It makes my day better.

Jane Levy

#69. I never felt ostracized or made to feel strange by obsessing over 'The Onion' or 'Calvin and Hobbes.' That was considered completely normal.

Simon Rich

#70. The thing about obsessing about a happy ending is that you forget to enjoy the journey along the way, You forget to appreciate the people alongside you.

Beth Pattillo

#71. There are always different influences each season. It could be a person, it could be a piece of furniture; it depends on what I'm obsessing about.

Anna Sui

#72. I didn't want to do comedy again. It is way harder when you are doing comedy. You can't just concentrate on the character and the plot. In comedy, the writers, instead of obsessing about character and plot, obsess about the jokes.

Patricia Richardson

#73. Obsessing over a boy is like throwing precious time into the garbage, and all I have to show for it is chewed-off fingernails, self-doubt, and emotional distress.

Katie Kacvinsky

#74. I love sports. When I'm not playing, I'm watching, reading, or otherwise obsessing about them. This probably stems from growing up in Indiana, where if you didn't at least attempt to play basketball, you were considered of dubious moral character.

Mark Waters

#75. Obsessing over a boy makes the time fly.

Alecia Whitaker

#76. There comes a certain point in life when you have to stop blaming other people for how you feel or the misfortunes in your life. You can't go through life obsessing about what might have been.

Hugh Jackman

#77. Concentrate on small segments of your race at a time. For example, rather than obsessing about the distance that remains, simply complete the next mile in good form ... try another, then another, until the race is done.

Jerry Lynch

#78. What's the survival value of obsessing on a sunset?

Peter Watts

#79. I'm not saying you are jealous or insecure. I'm just saying that you obsessing over another person's accomplishments makes you look that way.

Dan Pearce

#80. Stop being perfect, because obsessing over being perfect stops you from growing.

Brad Pitt

#81. We are A-to-Z thinkers, fretting about A, obsessing over Z, yet forgetting all about B through Y.

Ryan Holiday

#82. But if love were convenient there wouldn't be millions of songs and movies and books obsessing over it, or therapists and doctors consoling all the people falling in and out of it.

Katie Kacvinsky

#83. I am not obsessing.
I am just sitting here
perforating this post-it
with a push-pin.

Ada Limon

#84. Stop obsessing about where you invest your money.
Focus instead, on where you invest your time.

Gyan Nagpal

#85. We discover the vast difference between living and feeling alive when we discover inspiration." The quickest way to true happiness is not by ambling and obsessing about the limited pursuit of happiness, but by the immediate and actionable pursuit to be inspired.

Elaina Marie

#86. More often than not, it's better to give up thinking, worrying and obsessing, in favour of faith that things will work out fine.

Sue Fitzmaurice

#87. I always have the same thing - which is the fear of not getting a laugh - that I've had from the time I was a kid; obsessing over, 'This joke doesn't quite work, we've got to get this right.' I was always like that, whether I was a member of a six-person ensemble or whether I'm the center of a show.

Matthew Perry

#88. If you love sex, let it be known. You don't have to walk around downtown naked or have some flyers printed up, but definitely don't be shy about your love (or obsession) for sex.

Roberto Hogue