Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer.
An obsession is where something will not leave your mind.
Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?
It's a little difficult when something goes from being an utter obsession - a thing where your skill defines you as a person - to it just being a thing you occasionally do.
Obsessional does not necessarily mean sexual obsession, not even obsession for this, or for that in particular; to be an obsessional means to find oneself caught in a mechanism, in a trap increasingly demanding and endless.
Presumably all obsessions are extreme metaphors waiting to be born. That whole private mythology, in which I believe totally, is a collaboration between one's conscious mind and those obsessions that, one by one, present themselves as stepping-stones.
When I look back on what I've done, I think I'm drawn to obsession, perhaps.
Love is an obsession. It has that quality to it. But there are healthy obsessions, and mine is one of them.
Real obsession needs an unconscious motivation behind it.
Obsessions turn people off.