Obsessive Quotations

While it is often true that the enemy of my enemy is my friend, it seems like Yahoo's almost obsessive focus on Google is taking away from its other businesses.

I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. I'd be an obsessive hairdresser.

Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage.

I am methodical to the point of being obsessive-compulsive. And I have always been good at multi-tasking.

I'm an obsessive musical theatre person, so some of the most formative albums for me were, you know, the 'Phantom Of The Opera' soundtrack or 'Into The Woods.'

'Jaws' was the definitive filmmaking turning point for me. It came out in the summer of '75 and I saw it an obsessive 55 times. They even ran a very embarrassing article about me in the local paper, about the weird kid who's seen 'Jaws' 55 times.

I made a film called 'Bad Timing' that I thought everybody would respond to. It was about obsessive love and physical obsession. I thought this must touch everyone, from university dons down.

I am not obsessive about anything except my health.

I've been a massive obsessive about jazz singers all my life.

I've got lots and lots planned out, and other ideas knocking around in my head, too. I'm kind of an obsessive pre-planner, so I have a lot of material.

When I'm making a film, I'm obsessive about what I do, and I get totally into it. That's all I'm eating, breathing, living at that moment.

The obsessive focus on a college degree has served neither taxpayers nor students well. Only 35 percent of students starting a four-year degree program will graduate within four years, and less than 60 percent will graduate within six years. Students who haven't graduated within six years probably never will.

I am a bit obsessive about tidiness. I need to make my bed in the morning and leave it perfectly made up.

Oh how I wish I could be as obsessive as Carrie from 'Homeland' when I'm writing a book! That would save me a lot of trouble during the revision process.

I'm as obsessive with health as I was with destruction.

I think so much about everything. I'm obsessive.

I am an obsessive personality. And if you are an obsessive personality, you need to be aware of it and be able to drive it with success. There are moments in your life when you are driving it well, but you shift and you shift badly and you hurt yourself.

I have an addictive personality. I was addicted to computer games... and then all that obsessive nature just piled into music.

The comptroller of New York City ought to have all the characteristics of a major corporation's CFO - quiet rigor, obsessive care for detail, incorruptible judgment, an ability to work assiduously behind the scenes with the key stakeholders.

I'm often called obsessive, but I don't think I am any more than anyone else.

I have this almost obsessive desire to whomever is close to me: I want to have a very intense, close, intimate relationship with them.

One of the things my success as an author has forced me to face is how dysfunctional... Maybe that's a strong word, but how obsessive I am.

I have a habit of getting very obsessive about one thing, but it usually lasts no more than three days.

I get slightly obsessive about working in archives because you don't know what you're going to find. In fact, you don't know what you're looking for until you find it.

I become quite obsessive when I get into something.

I am only interested in the ideas that become obsessive and make me feel uneasy. The ideas that I'm afraid of.

Oh my gosh, I feel like I'm really obsessive about anything dealing with my health.

Much of today's public anxiety about science is the apprehension that we may forever be overlooking the whole by an endless, obsessive preoccupation with the parts.

I've done a lot of drama, and comedy was the one genre I was not being offered. So I became obsessive about getting one.

When we were younger we were all trying to score points. But as musicians all we wanted to do was to make something that sounded great, and we became obsessive about it.

I am a really obsessive music listener, and I would look for clues.

Collectors become obsessive and then addicted. You become addicted to art and you can't live without it.

I get a little too obsessive with work.

Yes, let me tell you about Pete Rose. If ever Pete took one drink at lunch, he would be an alcoholic by nightfall. It doesn't matter what: baseball, gambling, women. Rose is the most obsessive man I've ever met.

She's obsessed with cleaning. I think she has OCD, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder about dirt.

I have had quite a few obsessive fans. They write to me and then they turn up at signings and look really sheepish. If I said 'boo' to them, they would run away. I think they maybe believe I could take over their lives and sort them out. If they saw the state of my kitchen they wouldn't think that.

I don't have this obsessive need to do street art all the time because it's already opened doors for me.

But that's why I had to. I couldn't finish anything, or communicate, or make decisions about what the dancers should do. I was at a very isolated place in my mind. I was always incredibly obsessive about my work, and I don't know how much I made that more extreme by drug use. But I'm glad not to be that person now.

I think ancient cultures incorporated death into the experience of life in a more natural way than we have done. In our obsessive focus on youth, on celebrity, our denial of death makes it harder for people who are grieving to find a place for that grief.

My work in general involves getting over my fears that are deeply embedded since childhood: Fear of darkness, fear of dangerous activities in general, and fear of dirt - I had a considerable obsessive compulsive disorder as a child.

I think I have an obsessive quality to my personality. What makes things scary is you can't argue with obsession.

We work crazy hours in Silicon Valley; my wife says we're all kind of diseased in some way. We're totally obsessive compulsive - when we see an idea, we're like, 'let me in, it's so much fun.'

When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.

We see many of the same characteristics in this stock that we saw in America Online back in 1995. A great management team, a huge market opportunity, an obsessive focus on customers, an unusual and misunderstood business model, and dysfunctional competitors.

To me, it's almost a geological formation. It was very much a landscape, not just an obsessive collection of junk like you see in some of these places.

Both of my books, 'Love Is a Mix Tape' and 'Talking to Girls About Duran Duran,' are about how music gets tangled up with all our other emotional memories. Since I'm an obsessive music fan, I'm always seeking out new sonic thrills.

Fashion is this obsessive narrative that people don't understand but they can't stop looking at.

I used to be something of an obsessive when it came to research. When I first began writing the Thorne novels, I would drive to a set of traffic lights in the early hours of the morning to make sure you could turn left. I thought it was important to get even the most trivial details right.

The story is about a popular local radio talk-show host and how his life crumbles as he tries to deal with an obsessive fan, troubles in his marriage and at the same time develop a romantic interest with a woman who has her own issues.

The brain system for romantic love is associated with intense energy, focused energy, obsessive things - a host of characteristics that you can feel not just toward a mating sweetheart, ... there's every reason to think that girls can fall in love with other girls without feeling sexual towards them, without the intention to marry them.

It's always exciting to play characters who are obsessive because all their energy is so focused on that one thing and they're eccentric because of it.

The vast literature concerning whistleblowers shows that, far from weird extremists, they are really quite ordinary people: male and female, young and old, junior and senior, no more nerdy or obsessive than most hard workers.

It's referred to as a positive addiction in that case because the result is that it makes you do something that's good for your body as long as you don't become obsessive with it. If you get obsessive, then it's not positive, but if you get desire to want exercise on a regular basis, and you keep it sane, then that's very positive.

I love to learn; I really do. We'd study something in class, and I'd take it outside of class and become, like, obsessive and just research everything.

He's really likable and sincere, and he's very easy to be with. He certainly wasn't easygoing in the studio. He's a passionate, obsessive person, like I am. But I have so much respect for the guy. He's talented, and he knows music and he brings a fresh perspective.

'Homeland' was a sensation out of the gate in 2011, gathering acclaim and sweeping up Emmys, and the reason such shows are so overrated is because, unlike with other forms of popular art, success in TV is measured almost purely by how obsessive we become.

I am an obsessive flyer, myself.

I can be a little obsessive about avoiding colds and flu. Thera Zinc Echinacea lozenges are awesome, and I almost always have some with me.

Good things come to obsessive compulsives who fixate.

He's famous for being obsessive about details.

Some people are probably saner. They're good performers, and they go about their day. I just get obsessive about it.

I become kind of obsessive about research.

I'm an obsessive person. I like intensity.

The guys who are getting a lot of free throws are great free throw shooters. J.P. shot like 500 every day this summer. He's the most meticulous, driven worker. There's a reason why they're shooting like that. Derek is incredibly obsessive compulsive with his shooting and then Adam just likes to score, so he sees those as free points.

There is practically no activity that cannot be enhanced or replaced by knitting, if you really want to get obsessive about it.