You become what you think about all day long. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Obsession is the rocket fuel of our creativity. – Jordan Ritter
Obsession is what lazy people call dedication. – Anonymous
Determination becomes obsession and then it becomes all that matters. – Jeremy Irvine
There’s a lot of obsession about people’s personal ambitions. – Mary Ann Shaffer
Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness. – Michel de Montaigne
When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love. – J.K. Rowling
Obsessions are essentially secondary to the depression, and usually clear up when the depression lifts. – Padmal de Silva
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing. – Elie Wiesel
Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they’re men. – Meryl Streep
Obsession is just another round on the merry-go-round of unfinished business. – Dale Andrews
An obsession is a way for damaged people to damage themselves more. – Mark Barrowcliffe
Without obsession, life is nothing. – John Waters
An obsession with control generally seems to reflect a fear of uncertainty. – Henry Mintzberg
A man with an obsession is a man who has very little sales resistance. – C. S. Lewis
Cure for an obsession: get another one. – Mason Cooley
The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts. – Henry Moore
Until your mission is an obsession, nothing will change. – Robin Sharma
Follow your most intense obsession mercilessly. – Frank Kafk
The train of thought of an obsessed person always runs on a single track. – Evan Esar
Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer. – Norman Mailer
Be obsessed or be average. – Grant Cardone
The obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives. Mine are people, the human condition, life. – Mary Ellen Mark
Obsession is a commitment; you have to believe in it, because it soon takes you over. – Lennard J. Davis
It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions. – Robert Bly
An obsession is intrusive because it does not require a permit to walk into the brain. – Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Positive obsession is about not being able to stop just because you’re afraid and full of doubts. Positive obsession is dangerous. It’s about not being able to stop at all. – Octavia Butler
‘Mad‘ is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else. – Ugo Betti
An obsession is where something will not leave your mind. – Eric Clapton
To do anything to a high level, it has to be a total obsession. – Conor McGregor
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. – Jacques Lacan
The obsession with instant gratification blinds us from our long-term potential. – Mike Dooley
You start living for the obsession alone … You want to arrive somewhere regardless of whether you’re enjoying the road or not. – Paulo Coelho
Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an after-life. – Arianna Huffington
We can’t win against obsession. They care, we don’t. They win. – Douglas Adams
An obsession is an idea which you must get out of your mind if you are not to go out of your mind. – Evan Esar
My obsession is to make women beautiful. When you create with that in mind, things can’t go out of fashion. – Azzedine Alaia
Obsession is so extreme and so hard to imagine with the rational mind that it has a science-fiction-like quality to it-it’s almost as if the obsessed one has been taken over by a replica, a pod, a facsimile of the rational person. – Susan Cheever
To obsess too virulently is to walk alone in anxiety. But to obsess too little is to wall oneself off from one’s own creativity. – Eric Maisel
