Almost everyone have been obsessed with something at one point in life. Obsession can be a good thing and a bad thing, it all depends on what you’re obsessed about.
While it can fuel your drive to chase after your dreams, it can also make you do “crazy” things if you’re obsessed with the wrong things. Here are 19 compelling quotes on how obsession can be a good thing.
1. “Determination becomes obsession and then it becomes all that matters.”—Jeremy Irvine
2. “Obsession is beautiful. It’s what makes art.”—Joss Whedon
3. “The more you’re obsessed by something the better chance you have of achieving it.”— Frank Zane
4. “In boxing, it is about the obsession of getting the most from yourself: wanting to dominate the world like a hungry young lion.” —Anthony Joshua
5. “I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.” —Margaret Atwood
6. “Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they’re men.”– Meryl Streep
7. “When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.” —J.K. Rowling
8. “Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.”—Michel de Montaigne
9. “I like the idea of craziness with discipline.” —Karl Lagerfeld
10. “Become obsessed about the things you want, otherwise, you are going to spend a lifetime being obsessed with making up excuses as to why you didn’t get the life you wanted.” – Grant Cardone
11. “To do anything to a high level, it has to be a total obsession.”— Conor McGregor
12. “Cure for an obsession: get another one.”—Mason Cooley
13. “We’re not competitor obsessed, we’re customer obsessed. We start with the customer and we work backwards.” —Jeff Bezos
14. “An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions…” —Andres Serrano
15. “I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well.”—Tom Ford
16. “You must have complete determination. The worst opponent you can come across is one whose aim has become an obsession.” —Bruce Lee
17. “To succeed, work hard, never give up and above all cherish a magnificent obsession.”—Walt Disney
18. “You become what you think about all day long.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
19. “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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