Zhuangzi
Philosopher
"The effect of life in society is to complicate and confuse our existence, making us forget who we really are by causing us to become obsessed with what we are not."
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Obsessed
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Drake
Rapper, singer, songwriter
"I'm obsessed with perfection. I want to work. I don't want to stop. I want to take advantage and make myself the best possible me that I can be."
Sebastian Stan
Actor
"I was obsessed with Jim Carrey growing up. It's why I wanted to become an actor."
Robin Sharma
Author, Speaker
"The average are addicted to leisure. The exceptional are obsessed with learning."
Zhuangzi
Philosopher
"I cannot tell if what the world considers ‘happiness’ is happiness or not. All I know is that when I consider the way they go about attaining it, I see them carried away headlong, grim and obsessed, in the general onrush of the human herd, unable to stop themselves or to change their direction. All the while they claim to be just on the point of attaining happiness."
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"We're not competitor obsessed, we're customer obsessed. We start with the customer and we work backwards."
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"If you're truly obsessed over customers, it'll cover a lot of errors."
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"I'm a strategist, not a motivator. I'm obsessed with finding strategies that create real results in the shortest period of time."
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"I was always just kind of obsessed with guitar, even before I started playing."
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"I became very obsessed with death, and the idea that you never know when death will arrive, so one has to do as much as possible all the time to get the most out of life. That would be a motivating force."
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"I would not call myself a veteran conspiracy theorist. Or an obsessed one. I pretty much peaked on the whole conspiracy theory thing in the '60s, with the grassy knoll, who really killed JFK, and who ordered the hit on Lee Harvey Oswald."
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"I'm not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed."
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"Dogs are obsessed with being happy."
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"Reformers who are obsessed with purity and cannot see that their obsession is impure."
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"The Americans are very clear, and obsessed with nouns."
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"I am literally obsessed with Lena Dunham. She's, like, my favorite person in the world. I follow her on Twitter; I read her every day."
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"I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work."
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"I've always been obsessed with electronics and using computers and software. It's always been part of my vernacular."
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"Once I'm obsessed with somebody, I'm terrified of them instantly. I'm not scared of them - I'm scared of me and how I will react."
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"When I fall in love I'm obsessed."
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"A writer must be hard to live with: when not working he is miserable, and when he is working he is obsessed."
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"I think I was always obsessed with esthetics."
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"I grew up in the countryside, and I was obsessed with horses and wildlife."
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"The more obsessed one is with getting thin, the more certain it becomes that one will never get there."
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"Because it's much more pleasant to be obsessed over how the hero gets out of his predicament than it is over how I get out of mine."
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