#obsess

I'm a very lazy person by nature. I have to be really engaged, and then I go straight from lazy to obsessive. I couldn't study chemistry, but I could memorize all the books for Dungeons and Dragons. It was ridiculous. The trick is to find what I like to do. ↗

— Jon Favreau

#chemistry #could #dragons #dungeons #engaged

The real problem at the moment is that the banks - because of their existing culture, which is frankly anti-business, obsession with short-term trading profits, not focusing on the long term - are throttling the recovery of British industry. ↗

— Vince Cable

#because #british #culture #existing #focusing

Obsession is a young man's game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old. ↗

— Michael Caine

#game #grew #i #man #never

At a Boston signing, someone from the audience asked why I was so obsessed with furniture in my books. The question rattled around in my head. I had no idea that I was obsessed with furniture. ↗

— Jonathan Carroll

#asked #audience #books #boston #furniture

Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#bitterly #centuries #composers #dialogue #obsessively

I can't drag myself away from 'Final Cut Pro.' It is a digital video editing system. I am obsessed with it, but I am always away from home, and I can't use it. ↗

— Margaret Cho

#am #away #cut #digital #drag

Snooki is really beautiful and looks quite like Elizabeth Taylor in 'Cleopatra.' She has the same bone structure. I'm kind of obsessed with 'Jersey Shore.' People don't give them enough credit for how entertaining they are. ↗

— Margaret Cho

#bone #cleopatra #credit #elizabeth #elizabeth taylor

What matters to me is that one identifies one's genuine obsessions, one's genuine commitments, one's genuine appetites, one pursues them seriously and far. ↗

— Leon Wieseltier

#commitments #far #genuine #identifies #matters

It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions. ↗

— Robert Bly

#calamity #great #human #human being #obsessions

My idea of professionalism is probably a lot of people's idea of obsessive. ↗

— David Fincher

#lot #obsessive #people #probably #professionalism