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Letter "O" » obsessive
«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.»
Author: Barbra Streisand
(Actress, Producer, Singer)
| About:
Perfection
| Keywords:
details, obsession, obsessive, perfectionist, perfectionists, searching
«If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.»
«I am obsessive, also I am industrious. Besides, the time when you are most alive and most aware is in childhood and one is trying to recapture that heightened awareness.»
Author: Edna O'Brien
(Writer)
| About:
Childhood
| Keywords:
heighten, heightened, heightening, heightens, industrious, obsessive, recapture, recaptured
«I love working with people who are inspired and obsessive.»
«The neurosis in which the search for safety takes its clearest form is in the compulsive-obsessive neurosis. Compulsive-obsessive to frantically order and stabilize the world so that no unmanageable, unexpected or unfamiliar dangers will ever appear.»
Author: Abraham Maslow
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
compulsive, dangers, frantically, obsessive, safety, stabilize, stabilized, stabilizing, The Search, unexpected, unfamiliar, unfamiliar with, unmanageable
«I am an obsessive rewriter, doing one draft and then another and another, usually five. In a way, I have nothing to say, but a great deal to add.»
«The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is exploiting and wallowing in the self-pity of adolescence and obsessive keyhole sexuality. The way out, as the poet says, is always through.»
Author: Arthur Miller
(Playwright)
| About:
Adolescence,
Poets,
Repression,
Theater
| Keywords:
adolescence, exploiting, keyhole, keyholes, obsessive, sexuality, shoulders, Through the Keyhole, tiptoe, tiptoed, wallow, wallowed, wallowing, way out
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