Top 440 Obsessive Quotes & Sayings

Writing is tough. It's insanely obsessive work.

I'm obsessive when I get an idea in my head.

I think musical theater fans - obsessive fans - are very much like Comic Con fans in our personalities. We're very possessive, and we're very obsessive, and we're very critical. So don't screw with our stuff.

When I work on stories, I tend to be pretty obsessive.

I am quite obsessive by nature.

I love obsessive fandom because I'm an obsessive fan who flips out over music.

I become quite obsessive when I get into something.

[George Carlin] was obsessive about time; he was obsessive compulsive about his material and making things shorter and more perfect. He did an HBO hour every other year. It's live; you have to be off-stage at 55 minutes. It's a network; you've got to be off. And it's perfect.

I am not obsessive about anything except my health.

I'm obsessive, I'm a control freak, I get snappy with people.

He's famous for being obsessive about details.

It could be ventured to understand obsessive compulsive neurosis as the pathological counterpart of religious development, to define neurosis as an individual religiosity; to define religion as a universal obsessive compulsive neurosis.

Good things come to obsessive compulsives who fixate.

My personality's very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.

I've always been interested in obsessive, insane people.

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

People tweet before they think, and it becomes obsessive.

The essence of boredom is to be found in the obsessive search for novelty.

love is a mental illness, an obsessive-compulsive disorder romanticized!

Once I get on something, once I have something that I'm working on, then I become very obsessive. In a good way. I mean,... is there a positive way to say obsessive? It's a good thing and if you're out there and you're working on something right now and you're crazed and you're up in the middle of the night, or you can't stop thinking about it, or you have to keep reading other things about the subject that you're working on or whatever. That's good and I think that's necessary creatively.

I get a little too obsessive with work.

I'm kind of an obsessive person, and touring is repetitive in the best way.

You work with people who are obsessive about shopping, obsessive about owning things and buying things, like this purchase is going to make them happy. And you want to say to them, You know, no amount of real estate is gonna fill that void.

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.

You work with people who are obsessive about shopping, obsessive about owning things and buying things, like this purchase is going to make them happy. And you want to say to them, 'You know, no amount of real estate is gonna fill that void.'

I don't understand why 'obsessive' has a negative connotation, I'm an obsessive and I like it. I get an idea and I stick to it.

People get obsessive and nuts. It's scary.

We are obsessive NPR listeners.

I'm a recycling obsessive.

I've always had that obsessive will to win and a commitment to excellence.

I am an obsessive flyer, myself.

I'm an obsessive person. I like intensity.

Love" and all the obsessive behaviors associated with it, was an absurd emotion.

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

There is an obsessive focus on speed at Google.

I guess I get really obsessive or passionate about things.

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

Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage.

I like to think of myself as focused in work, but it probably comes across as obsessive.

I love working with people who are inspired and obsessive.

I'm a terrible sleeper. I get obsessive, repetitive thoughts and it's horrible.

Children surviving childhood is my obsessive theme and my life's concern.

I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well

I'm kind of an obsessive-compulsive person, like, neat obsessive.

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.

If you become obsessive in spiritual practice, if you just try and try, you are not going to be happy. You are going to be obsessive.

Now people are celebrated for being obsessive.

The movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts.

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

Hideous psychic fallout they'd all endured both in active marijuana-dependency and then in marijuana-detox: the social isolation, anxious lassitude, and the hyperself-consciousness that then reinforced the withdrawal and anxiety - the increasing emotional abstraction, poverty of affect, and then total emotional catalepsy - the obsessive analyzing, finally the paralytic stasis that results from obsessive analysis of all possible implications of both getting up from the couch and not getting up from the couch.

Personally I'm obsessive-compulsive about the placement and cleanliness of my things.

I was an obsessive fantasy reader from the time I could read at all.

I know I have an eccentric, obsessive-compulsive side.

I become kind of obsessive about research.

I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well.

Never worry about being obsessive. I like obsessive people. Obsessive people make great art

My very first movie, 'Mary Poppins,' which I talk about, it just turned me into an obsessive, creative creature who had to sort of reply to the experience by drawing things, making things. It was like it forced - it made me into this obsessive, creative creature... I don't know any other way of putting it.

I can be rather obsessive - especially when it comes to breaking through to the next level as an actor.

I can get obsessive with my training, but it makes you who you are.

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