Compulsive Quotes

You?re breaking compulsive thinking. No one ever told us we don?t have to think. You can control thinking when you want to think. You?re the [one] with the stick, you can stir the lake whenever you want. - Martin Berson

You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do. - Steve Martin

Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of free time in which to write or becoming an English teacher and thinking about books and writers on a daily basis. That swayed me. - David Guterson

We're not so many years away from companies offering kits for the compulsive... (But) anyone that compulsive isn't going to lose something. - Paul Saffo

Well, I used to be a compulsive exerciser, but I'm over that. - Courtney Thorne Smith

We see compulsive gamblers of all sizes and shapes. - Edward Looney

Want to know if a given behavior is a soft addiction? If any of these characteristics apply, chances are it is: zoning out, avoiding feelings, compulsiveness, denial/rationalization, stinking thinking, and hiding or lying about the behavior. - Judith Wright

The thing is that I have a really intense, almost compulsive need to record. But it doesn't end there, because what I record is somehow transformed into a creative thing. There is a continuity. Recording is the beginning of a conceptual production. I am somehow collapsing the two - recording and producing - into a single event. - Rem Koolhaas