Obsession is single-mindedness

• Obsession: The domination of one’s thoughts or feelings by a persistent idea, image, desire, etc. Dictionary.com
• Obsession:  Someone or something that a person thinks about constantly or frequently. Oxford Dictionary
• ‘Mad’ is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else. Ugo Betti
• An obsession is where something will not leave your mind. Eric Clapton
• Obsessions are the only things that matter. Patricia Highsmith
• I don’t possess these thoughts I have — they possess me. I don’t possess these feelings I have — They obsess me. Ashly Lorenzana
• The train of thought of an obsessed person always runs on a single track. Evan Esar

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Obsession is dedication taken to extreme

• Determination becomes obsession and then it becomes all that matters. Jeremy Irvine
• Obsessed is a word the lazy use to describe the dedicated..

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A healthy obsession is akin to an intense love

• Love is an obsession. It has that quality to it. But there are healthy obsessions, and mine is one of them. Pamela Stephenson
• They call it an obsession, but I prefer the word love.

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Obsession is intense passion and inspiration

• Is there a word more passionate than passion? Obsession, total immersion, the feeling that everything else doesn’t matter. Cynthia Ozick
• When passion meets inspiration, an obsession is born.

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Obsession is to be consumed and immersed

• I am overrun, infested with a menagerie of desires. Elizabeth Smart
• I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart. Vincent van Gogh
• I desire very little, but the things I do consume me. Beau Taplin
• I put my heart and soul into my work, and I have lost my mind in the process. Vincent van Gogh
• Obsession is a commitment; you have to believe in it, because it soon takes you over. Lennard J. Davis

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Obsession unleashes great energy and motivation

• Each obsession is a knot in your being. Once it is opened, great energy is released Rajneesh
• Real obsession needs an unconscious motivation behind it. Damon Galgut

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Obsession is the rocket fuel of creativity

• I still have an insane drive to create and express myself, and it’ll never stop because I don’t know how to stop it. Graham Nash
• Obsession is the rocket fuel of our creativity. Jordan Ritter
• Obsession is essential to creativity.
• The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts. Henry Moore
• As people with the creative spirit, we’re obsessed with possibility. We live for the rush of turning a thought — an abstract idea — into something real, tangible, touchable, readable, effectual, profitable.  Danielle LaPorte
• I write and record ideas everywhere. On flight sickness bags on airplanes. On paper napkins in restaurants. In my journal that follows me much of where I go. Yes, I’m obsessed with creativity. And that’s my encouragement for you too. Robin Sharma

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Obsession is the wellspring of excellence

• I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well. Tom Ford
• To do anything to a high level, it has to be a total obsession. Conor McGregor

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Obsession is the wellspring of greatness

• Aptitude plus obsession equals greatness. Josh Bezoni
• Be obsessed or be average. Grant Cardone
• Good requires motivation, great requires obsession. Cobanli

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Obsession is the wellspring of genius

• Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness. Michel de Montaigne
• What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough. Eugene Delacroix
• You can’t have a masterpiece without madness.  Alejandro Jodorowsky

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Obsession is the wellspring of success and achievement

• If you don’t have the mental capacity to be that obsessed about what you’re trying to get. Then you ain’t never gonna have it. C.T. Fletcher
• Obsession makes everything possible. Novala Takemoto
• The more you’re obsessed by something the better chance you have of achieving it. Frank Zane
• Success in life is about obsession Massimo Bottura
• To succeed, work hard, never give up and above all cherish a magnificent obsession. Walt Disney
• One essential to success is that your desire be an all-obsessing one, your thoughts and aim be coordinated, and your energy be concentrated and applied without letup. Claude M. Bristol

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Obsession can change the world

• No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed. Billie Jean King
• I have a magnificent obsession. All I want to do is change the world, make it a better place for this and future generation. W. Clement Stone

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Obsession is important in art

• A great artist has a unique vision – obsession. They are someone willing to fail flamboyantly. Jerry Saltz
• An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions. Andres Serrano
• As the decades go by, a painter’s life becomes a life lived with oil paint, a story told in the thicknesses of oil. Any history of painting that does not take that obsession seriously is incomplete. James Elkins
• Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. Claude Monet
• Good design requires motivation, great design requires obsession. Cobanli
• I think only of my painting, and if I were to drop it, I think I’d go crazy. Claude Monet
• I work day and night without sleep. The paintings keep me fired up. Jules Olitski
• I’ve been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good. Barbra Streisand
• Most inner-oriented artists share a common characteristic, a certain quality of obsession. Kenneth Coutts-Smith
• Obsession is beautiful. It’s what makes art. Joss Whedon
• The painter’s obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work. Lucian Freud
• People don’t paint for the hell of it. It’s a deeply seated thing – a preoccupation – the whole of one’s life. Roger de Grey
• The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one’s obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all. John Updike
• Sometimes in the history of art it is possible to describe a period or a generation of artists as having been obsessed by a particular problem. Alfred H. Barr, Jr.
• I always said if you don’t have to make art, find another job. Nan Goldin

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Obsession is important in writing

• I have to go on writing because I wouldn’t be able to go on without writing. It is the only function that works for me, and without that function, I would die. Farley Mowat
• Obsession led me to write. It’s been that way with every book I’ve ever written. I become completely consumed by a theme, by characters, by a desire to meet a challenge. Anne Rice
• Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories. Mario Vargas Llosa
• To have the beginning of a truly great story, you need to have a character you’re completely and utterly obsessed with. Without obsession, to the point of a maddening addiction,there’s no point to continue. Jennifer Salaiz

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Obsession is important in business

• 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. Clara Shih
• 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. Mark Cuban
• We’re not competitor obsessed, we’re customer obsessed. We start with the customer and we work backwards. Jeff Bezos

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Obsession is important in science

• I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas. Albert Einstein

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Obsession is important in dancing

• Dancing is my obsession. My life. Mikhail Baryshnikov

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Make your mission an obsession

• Until your mission is an obsession, nothing will change in your life. Robin Sharma
• Your devotion eventually becomes your BEAUTIFUL OBSESSION. You practice it daily. Constantly. Consistently. You have no time for TV and Call of Duty video games and Twitter or gossip. You need and hunger to do that thing that fills you. That inspires you. That gives you precious glimpses of your greatest self. Robin Sharma
• The work is a calling. It demands that type of obsession. John Pomfret

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Get obsessed and stay obsessed

• You’ve got to get obsessed and stay obsessed. John Irving
• It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions. Robert Bly
• If you are not obsessed with your life, change it. Elite Daily
• Without obsession, life is nothing. John Waters
• I dare you, while there is still time, to have a magnificent obsession. William Danforth
• You just have to trust your own madness.   Clive Barker

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Follow your obsession where it leads

• Follow your most intense obsession mercilessly. Frank Kafka
• Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly. Franz Kafka

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If your obsession wanes, get another

• Cure for an obsession: get another one. Mason Cooley
• It’s extraordinary these obsessions. You conquer one but then you move onto another. Marco Pierre White

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Combine your obsession with discipline

• I like the idea of craziness with discipline. Karl Lagerfeld

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Combine your obsession with spaciousness…

• If a warrior is to succeed at anything, the success must come gently, with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession. Carlos Castaneda

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…or it can become excessive and unhealthy

• An obsession does not help you at all to reach your objective, and even ends up taking the pleasure out of the climb. Paulo Coelho
• It is when our desire becomes an unquenchable craving or obsession, or causes us to do harm to ourselves or others, that it creates suffering and unhappiness. Donald Altman
• Passion is a positive obsession. Obsession is a negative passion. Paul Carvel
• To obsess too virulently is to walk alone in anxiety. But to obsess too little is to wall oneself off from one’s own creativity. Eric Maisel

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