Work Obsession Quotes

#1. I couldn't stand to be separated with my wife for months. It became quickly apparent to me that I needed to find a balance between my absolute work obsession and a private life that we could share without my disappearing all the time.

David Bowie

#2. I believe that all my work explores the human desire or obsession for utopias, and the structure of all my works is the search for utopias lost and rediscovered.

Marguerite Young

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

Lucian Freud

#4. Germans Francis Grund, and Francis Lieber, and the Pole Adam G. de Gurowski all wrote about the striking social equality they found in America, the absence of differences in status. They all noted the American obsession with work and the restless quest for the "almighty dollar."18

Alexis De Tocqueville

#5. Rembrandt was an innovator not only in painting but also in commerce. He helped establish a full-fledged art market in seventeenth-century Amsterdam. "Rembrandt's obsession with the intricacies of the market system permeated his life and his work,

John McMillan

#6. I can't read all the books I want to read, I can't watch all the phenomena that interest me in the world. The work calls me, and sometimes I wonder whether this is an obsession and I should drop it, or it's a necessity I'm obliged to fulfill.

James Hillman

#7. Obsession is hard work and can only be performed at full speed for short periods of time.

Raymond L. Atkins

#8. Obsession and repetition in the process of making things is one constant element in my work.

Sandy Skoglund

#9. I have an obsession for quality. I work for my guests, not to obtain Michelin stars.

Alain Ducasse

#10. They begin the hard work of learning to love each other without the euphoria of the "in love" obsession.

Gary Chapman

#11. The trouble with entering the upper echelon is you have to work harder to stay there.

John Jay Osborn Jr.

#12. What moves those of genius, what inspires their work, is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.

Eugene Delacroix

#13. Our obsession with speed, with cramming more and more into every minute, means that we race through life instead of actually living it. Our health, diet and relationships suffer. We make mistakes at work. We struggle to relax, to enjoy the moment, even to get a decent night's sleep.

Carl Honore

#14. I have, at times, been absorbed in my work to the point of complete self-oblivion. Once I worked for thirty-six hours without a break - to complete exhaustion; and while I was in the middle of it I didn't even notice.

Alton Tobey

#15. I like to talk about my obsession with french fries because I don't want people to think that 'Let's Move' is about complete, utter deprivation. It's about moderation and real-life changes and ideas that really work for families.

Michelle Obama

#16. What moves men of genius, or rather, what inspires their work, is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is not enough.

Edouard Delacroix

#17. There's no talent here, this is hard work. This is an obsession. Talent does not exist, we are all equals as human beings. You could be anyone if you put in the time. You will reach the top, and that's that. I am not talented. I am obsessed.

Conor McGregor

#18. It is worth asking who decides what's an "obsession" and where it differs from meditation or the kind of deep dwelling on a subject we see in philosophy or the work of Robert Wilson, for instance?

Laura Mullen

#19. To succeed, work hard, never give up and above all cherish a magnificent obsession.

Walt Disney

#20. There is more to life than making a living. Do not work more than you live.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#21. I'm more and more fascinated in my own work. I work from 10 A.M. until about 9 P.M., but it's not an obsession, it's a pleasure. There's never enough time.

Gary Hume

#22. During an intense period of lab work, the outside world vanishes and the obsession is total. Sleep is when you can curl up on the accelerator floor for an hour.

Leon M. Lederman

#23. The best part of aging in this business is losing that obsession about work and being able to spend a little more time with family.

Clint Eastwood

#24. Hating hard work can get to be such an obsession that you won't let it pile up.

Herbert C. Brown

#25. Koons's work has always stood apart for its one-at-a-time perfection, epic theatricality, a corrupted, almost sick drive for purification, and an obsession with traditional artistic values.

Jerry Saltz

#26. So the little thing grew bigger. He was healthy and normal, ate regularly, slept long hours, and yet the growing little thing was becoming an obsession. WORK PERFORMED. The phrase haunted his brain.

Jack London

#27. There's always something else to work on and different solutions to these problems in the next thing. We each have a certain set of obsessions which we each cycle through.

Leni Zumas

#28. In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject; the form is always in proportion to the obsession.

Alberto Giacometti

#29. Politics is not an obsession with me. It's something I'm doing now. I want to do good things, but if it doesn't work out for me, I'll go on to something else.

Juan Vargas

#30. I would say that I quite consciously rely on my obsessions in all my work, that I deliberately set up an obsessional frame of mind. In a paradoxical way, this leaves one free of the subject of the obsession.

J.G. Ballard

#31. No one but another painter could know the delicacy required to balance the complexities, to keep reality at bay in order to remain in the innermost center of his work.

Susan Vreeland

#32. Writing is not hard work, it is simply an obsession ...

Hallie Burnett

#33. American Education has a long history of infatuation with fads and ill-considered ideas. The current obsession with making our schools work like a business may be the worst of them, for it threatens to destroy public education. Who will Stand up to the tycoons and politicians and tell them so?

Diane Ravitch

#34. Be true to what naturally interests you - and be brave enough to turn an obsession into a profession.

Shelly Branch

#35. The work is a calling. It demands that type of obsession.

John Pomfret