I was the fastest typist in my school, and I had an obsession with spelling and memorizing.
Given Loughner's obsession with meaninglessness and language, maybe Foucault & Derrida deserve some fault here, too.
Obsession makes my life bad and my work good.
I have this weird obsession about buying books and looking at them with a smile, even if I won't read them soon. At least they are mine now.
I had an obsession that I was male characters from movies.
I have an obsession with Milk Duds. Eating them tastes like heaven.
Fame has become this obsession for people, which kind of creeps me out.
Our obsession with material things and lack of self-worth is evident in our need for an abundance of momentary luxuries and must-have amenities that have no true value for real, man. And I mean, we do it just to impress people that could care less if your children or your children's children have anything left to show for your life after you gone.
Hating hard work can get to be such an obsession that you won't let it pile up.
My whole artistic life has been devoted to battling myself and my ability to externalize my deepest emotions. As I have gotten older, the work has become more direct, perhaps reflecting the fact that for the first time in my life I feel really free. I have been fascinated with wings all my life. I have had an obsession with transcendence, the need to push forward and metaphorically fly.
It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.
We see each other [ with Iman Abdulmajid] a lot. I couldn't stand to be separated for months. It became quickly apparent to me that I needed to find a balance between my absolute work obsession and a private life that we could share without my disappearing all the time.
An artist without obsession isn't worth a damn!
The mother's love for her child is very strong in Korean society - almost on the borderline of being an obsession.
Rather than a profession, photography has always been a passion for me, a passion closer to an obsession.
Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession.
I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result.
I became obsessed with all these women who die never feeling they did anything extraordinary with their lives.
The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.
I don't see how you can create and not have the feeling that it is the most important, all-consuming thing.