Top 202 Obsession Quotes

I was obsessed with New York early on. I was watching sitcoms that were set in or around New York, like ‘The Dick Van Dyke Show.’ I was always very fascinated with the people who were on ‘What’s My Line?’ and I always had an incredible obsession with the city.

India’s obsession with food and its cultural importance in nourishing not just the body, but community and spirituality too, goes some way to explaining why Indian home cooking is hard to beat.

I have an obsession with black, so I love Alexander Wang and Alexander McQueen.

Several years ago, I began losing my hair, and like a lot of men, it was a major concern to me, in fact it was practically an obsession. But, also I’m an actor, so I’m in the public eye a lot and I really felt that my hair loss could affect my career prospects.

My latest decorating obsession is dipping – like painting the bottom of things. I’ve done it to almost every terra-cotta pot in my house. Every African vase I have is painted gold on the bottom. It’s so fun and easy, and it instantly livens up a piece. You feel like you’ve really accomplished something.

The thing that keeps me being a performer is my interest in society’s obsession with identity, because I’m not sure that I really believe identity exists.

As entrepreneurs, we must constantly dream and have the conviction and obsession to transform our dreams into reality – to create a future that never existed before.

You cannot write a book unless it is totally inhabiting your imagination and you are totally engrossed with it. Which is a kind word for obsession.

Obsession led me to write. It’s been that way with every book I’ve ever written. I become completely consumed by a theme, by characters, by a desire to meet a challenge.

I have an obsession with books about kids with Asperger’s syndrome.

Skinniness is a new fashion. It reflects an obsession with youth, a suggestion of pre-adolescence when a female’s fertility can be dominated. It implies vulnerability, feebleness and fragility.

I’d like to see a day when we’re less obsessed with stars and give due credit to everyone who is involved in the process of filmmaking and a change in the obsession with fair skin.

I think America’s obsession with guns and with violence in media and society is a horrible sickness.

I used to have an obsession with building businesses and forgot about building health. I was focused on the destination instead of the journey. I caution you to not do the same.

The discussion of ideas as opposed to the American narcissistic obsession with what’s going on with the self, that’s the general thing people are talking about.

People should buy a house to live in, not as an investment. Property has become such a national obsession – it was the primary subject at dinner parties and how many television shows were dedicated to the market. It’s not good for the economy.

I had this total obsession that I would have my first movie at the Empire when I was 24, so it was a big disappointment that it didn’t happen.

Obsessional does not necessarily mean sexual obsession, not even obsession for this, or for that in particular; to be an obsessional means to find oneself caught in a mechanism, in a trap increasingly demanding and endless.

I think life’s an irrational obsession.

My association with Delhi goes way back… After finishing high school in Punjab, I moved here to chase my passion and obsession for music.

The preoccupation of American historical and literary scholars with the New England Puritans must seem to outsiders like an obsession.

In the U.K., there is a sort of obsession with class.

When I came out, and for many years afterwards, it had become a habit for me to sit and read and read and read, like an obsession. I would take 20 books, and not come out until I’d finished them. It took me a while to change that habit.

I always say it must not be an obsession to win the Champions League. It’s a very important title and beautiful to do it. But you must not try to win the Champions League and lose focus on the Premier League.

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.

I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it’s not necessarily ubiquitous.

Our culture’s obsession with vintage objects has rendered us unable to separate history from nostalgia. People want heart. They want a chaser of emotion with their aesthetics.

I have improved in my mentality. I didn’t know what it meant to play at Juventus when I arrived, as there is pressure and obsession for the victory.

The novelist’s obsession, moment by moment, is with language: finding the right next word.

The French press can be very harsh, and the one thing they can’t bear is multi-tasking. They despise it to the highest degree, so from the age of five I’ve been taught that if I did two things at the same time, it meant I didn’t know how to do one. It’s an obsession that they have.

Trying to work out where you find meaning and sense in a meaningless world is my obsession.

Solving problems is fine, but it has gotten to the point of being a global obsession. We somehow have it in our heads that if we solve all of the problems, we can sit back and enjoy the easy life. But in reality, we become lazy and complacent. And that’s when we get flooded with even bigger problems.

I don’t like to work. I am not helpless without work. Work is an obsession for me.

What love is depends on where you are in relation to it. Secure in it, it can feel as mundane and necessary as air – you exist within it, almost unnoticing. Deprived of it, it can feel like an obsession; all consuming – a physical pain.

When I wrote ‘The Shadow Thief,’ I had an obsession with Peter Pan. I get focused on things. In fact, I was an absolute horror to live with at that stage. I had a big fight with my mum because I wanted her to change the windows so Peter Pan could visit me.

My first obsession was actually sports. I was a very good handball goalkeeper. With special permission, I played in the premier league in Germany before I was even old enough.

I like sweaters. I have a sweater obsession, I guess.

I just make whatever music I want. It’s my obsession, and it’s very fulfilling.

My obsession is plastic packaging. It makes me sick, all the waste. Everything about it disappoints me.

Music, from the time I was probably about five years old, was my obsession. I was going to say ‘passion,’ but I really was obsessed; I really didn’t want to do anything else.

I have always had an obsession with candles.

Fame has become this obsession for people, which kind of creeps me out.

I was born in 1971, and Tom Baker was sort of my obsession as a kid and that’s why we got him to do the voice over for ‘Little Britain’ because I was actually obsessed with Tom Baker.

Women have this obsession with shoes.

I’m a guy who just wanted to see his name in the lineup everyday. To me, baseball was a passion to the point of obsession.

My earliest love, which was sort of an obsession, actually, was Nas. I was in seventh grade, I believe, when ‘Nastradamus’ was out, and I took it pretty far.

Obsession is a synonym for magic. Magic is a synonym for genius. It’s a knack. It’s an aptitude.

My only regret is the media’s obsession with the past.

I’m obsessed with brows, so Revlon’s ColorStay Eyebrow Liner is a must, and the Just Bitten Kissable Balm Stain in Rendezvous is another obsession.

I guess it could be said that the inspiration for ‘Requiem for a Dream’ is watching the American dream not only destroy so many lives in the U.S., but infect the rest of the world with its obsession with getting more, ignoring the deadly effect that has on the planet.

Being deeply contented with God in my everyday life is a focused attitude. It is always available. It means practicing letting go of my obsession with how I’m doing. It means training myself to learn to actually be present with people, and seeking to love them.

I usually just go on Google and spend my hours just Googling Jennifer Beals. I think it’s possible that I have a slightly unordinary obsession with her. YouTube videos. Interviews with her. Pictures I put on my desktop and my phone.

The Champions League is our obsession, the No. 1 objective for Juventus.

From the time I was 11 until I was 23 and met my wife, wrestling was all I cared about. It was an obsession, and that’s why I think I ended up making it. There was no other option for me.

By relinquishing your obsession with the past and your fantasies about the future, you can tap into the power of the present and feel the force of love that resides inside of you.

My wife thinks I have an obsession with social class. So I guess I have an obsession with social class. It probably stems from feeling like an outcast.

Yet another thing Canadians and Europeans have in common is an obsession with the United States, and with distinguishing themselves from it, often by crude stereotyping.

I started experimenting with jewelry in my 20s – I was playing around with gemstones and painting things in gold leaf, and it turned into this huge obsession for me, so I launched my first jewelry line, Jade Inc.