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Real obsession needs an unconscious motivation behind it.

— Damon Galgut

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

An obsession is where something will not leave your mind.

— Eric Clapton

Obsessions turn people off.

— Grover Norquist

Without obsession, life is nothing.

— John Waters

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.

— Norman Mailer

Cure for an obsession: get another one.

— Mason Cooley

The work is a calling. It demands that type of obsession.

— John Pomfret

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.

— Damien Chazelle

When I look back on what I've done, I think I'm drawn to obsession, perhaps.

— Christopher Guest

I do not think that obsession is funny or that not being able to stop one's intensity is funny.

— Jim Dine

✗Opposing Perspectives

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.

— J. G. Ballard