Being obsessed with something really tunes us in for succeeding. Otherwise, we’re simply unfocused and look for the next shiny object out there. I hope these quotes get you obsessed towards what’s important, much like the 80/20 principle.
Best Quotes About Obsession
1. Real obsession needs an unconscious motivation behind it.
2. Be obsessed or be average.
3. To succeed, work hard, never give up and above all cherish a magnificent obsession.
4. Until your mission is an obsession, nothing will change.
5. Don’t start a company unless it’s an obsession and something you love. If you have an exit strategy, it’s not an obsession.
6. I have a magnificent obsession. All I want to do is change the world, make it a better place for this and future generation.
7. 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.
8. Obsessions are the only things that matter.
9. While obsessive behavior may be an antisocial plague to societies and communities at large, it’s total moxie when lone practitioners catch it.
10. Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
11. You start living for the obsession alone. You want to arrive somewhere regardless of whether you’re enjoying the road or not.
12. Dancing is my obsession. My life.
13. Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.
14. 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.
15. I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well.
16. My hope is that people will be repulsed by the character’s complete lack of ethics and obsession with consumerism, that’s what I was saying about the difference between the character’s message and the film’s message.
17. Determination becomes obsession and then it becomes all that matters.
18. Your job is to get your audience to care about your obsessions.
19. When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.
20. Good requires motivation, great requires obsession.
21. Acting requires a lot of discipline to go with the obsession. It’s a path of knowledge, and of self-knowledge. Sometimes you get lost on the path. And then you find yourself again.
22. Aptitude plus obsession equals greatness.
23. Don’t be self-conscious, if I could dream at all, it would be about you. And I’m not ashamed of it.
24. You become what you think about all day long.
25. We’re not competitor obsessed, we’re customer obsessed. We start with the customer and we work backwards.
26. I desire to be with you. I miss you. I feel lonely when I can’t see you. I am obsessed with you, fascinated by you, infatuated with you. I hunger for your taste, your smell, the feel of your soul touching mine.
27. Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they’re men.
28. The more you’re obsessed by something the better chance you have of achieving it.
29. Generally speaking, the most miserable people I know are those who are obsessed with themselves. The happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others. By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves.
30. To do anything to a high level, it has to be a total obsession.
31. 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.
32. A great artist has a unique vision – obsession. They are someone willing to fail flamboyantly
33. Obsession is the rocket fuel of our creativity.
34. I was always obsessed with being famous. I had Marilyn Monroe paper dolls as a child, and I was always obsessed with her. I’ve just been really driven in that direction, and none of my friends were. So, I don’t know what put that bug in me at a young age.
35. 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.
