A Quote by N.K. Jemisin

Determination could easily become obsession.

N.K. Jemisin

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N.K. Jemisin
American - Writer
Born: September 19, 1972

You must have complete determination. The worst opponent you can come across is one whose aim has become an obsession.

Bruce Lee

I hope my story could become an inspiration of determination, discipline, faith and hardwork.

Pia Wurtzbach

Responding to climate change will become the obsession of the next decade in much the same way terrorism was this decade's obsession.

Paul Saffo

My most favorite entrance music of all time... it's that, "You're my obsession, you're my obsession" song [Animotion's "Obsession"].

Joseph Bruce

My movie [The Neon Demon] is a hyper-version of the obsession with beauty. As this crazy obsession grows, longevity does not. Everything seems to become younger and younger. The girls and people around them cannibalize themselves.

Nicolas Winding Refn

One hasn't become a writer until one has distilled writing into a habit, and that habit has been forced into an obsession. Writing has to be an obsession. It has to be something as organic, physiological and psychological as speaking or sleeping or eating.

Niyi Osundare

You must have complete determination. The worst opponent you can come across is one whose aim has become an obsession. For instance, if a man has decided that he is going to bite off your nose no matter what happens to him in the process, the chances are he will succeed in doing it. He may be severely beaten up, too, but that will not stop him from carrying out his objective. That is the real fighter.

Bruce Lee

Determination becomes obsession and then it becomes all that matters.

Jeremy Irvine

Concert-going has become much less the thing to do, while people are still going to opera. This might be a harsh judgment, but it could easily happen that orchestras could slowly atrophy.

Jeffrey Tate

I do write about obsession, but I don't think I have an obsession for writing. I'm not a compulsive writer. I like to watch obsession in other people, watch the way it makes them behave.

Ruth Rendell

I could easily go one or two days without realizing that I'm so, so hungry. That's the negative outcome of what I've become.

Takeru Kobayashi

In college, you become truly independent; your discipline is honed. It has to be there for your studies. It helped make me who I am, and it increased my determination to be the best I could be.

Katrina Adams

I'm terrified about the world food shortages. Vegetables could quite easily become tomorrow's currency.

Roddy Llewellyn

I never wanted to be away from the family. Intuitively, I knew how easily distances could harden and become permanent.

Junot Diaz

If a life could have a theme song - and I believe every worthwhile one has - mine is a religion, an obsession, a mania or all of these expressed in one word - individualism. I was born with that obsession, and I've never seen and do not know now a cause more worthy, more misunderstood, more seemingly hopeless and tragically needed.