Quotes about Obsession
each look burdened with youth's immemorial obsession not with time's dragging weight which the old live with but with its fluidity: the bright heels of all the lost moments of fifteen and sixteen.
— William Faulkner
I'm scared of him, said Piggy, and that's why I know him. If you're scared of someone you hate him but you can't stop thinking about him. You kid yourself he's all right really, an' then when you see him again, it's like asthma an' you can't breathe.
— William Golding
I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.
— Henry Ford
I find it unnecessary, useless and frankly a bit unnecessary to get into all sorts of debates over President Obama's religion or the authenticity of his birth. I know for some people that it is an obsession. It is not with me.
— Mike Huckabee
I do not believe that people want to work hard enough and they want to find the quick Twitter, SEO. Anybody who's obsessed with SEO has lost already, period. I believe that firmly.
— Gary Vaynerchuk
People have always been obsessed by celebrities. There are just more outlets and opportunities to make a living exploiting that obsession nowadays.
— Don Cheadle
People have always been obsessed by celebrities. There are just more outlets and opportunities to make a living exploiting that obsession nowadays.
— Don Cheadle
A man is always right to pursue the thing he loves.No matter even if it kills him?I think so. Yes. No matter what.
— Cormac McCarthy
The object of your definite chief aim should become your hobby. You should ride this hobby continuously; you should sleep with it, eat with it, play with it, work with it, live with it and THINK with it.
— Napoleon Hill
If I had a message to my contemporaries it is surely this: Be anything you like, be madmen, drunks, and bastards of every shape and form, but at all costs avoid one thing: success . . . If you are too obsessed with success, you will forget to live. If you have learned only how to be a success, your life has probably been wasted.
— Thomas Merton
Love is a madness; if thwarted it develops fast.
— Mark Twain
Anyone who achieves any kind of success, however you want to define it, sometimes can't let go of it.
— Simon Sinek