Best Obsessive Compulsive Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I'm wearing black leggings and a loose top festooned with a Menger sponge of empty pockets stitched out of smaller pockets and smaller still, almost down to the limits of visibility woven in freefall by hordes of tiny otaku spiders, I'm told, their genes programmed by an obsessive-compulsive sartorial topologist.”

Stills Black Limits Empty Tiny Pockets Genes Spiders Woven Obsessive Sponges Horde Visibility Leggings Obsessive Compulsive Otaku Wearing Black Empty Pockets

Book:Glasshouse

Source: Glasshouse

“I'm pretty obsessive-compulsive and I'm very fast. I tend to not write for a long period of time until I can't not write, and then I write first drafts in gallops. I won't eat right. I forget to do my laundry. I have a dog now, and I have to remember to walk him. When I write, that takes over and I can't do anything else. There's something exciting about that free fall, but then my life gets really screwed up. I've lost lots of relationships because of my having to ignore everything.”

Writing Firsts Long I Can Remember Fall Lost Walks Forget Dog Periods Exciting Get Real Obsessive Laundry Screwed Up Long Periods Of Time Obsessive Compulsive

Author:Adam Rapp

“Notice that whenever we suffer pain, the mind is always quick to identify with the negative aspects of things and replay them over and over again, wounding us deeply. Almost all humans have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) of the mind, which is why so many people become fearful, hate-filled, and wrapped around their negative commentaries. This pattern must be recognized early and definitively. Peace of mind is actually an oxymoron. When you're in your mind, you're hardly ever at peace, and when you're at peace, you're never only in your mind.”

“I know I have an eccentric, obsessive-compulsive side.”

Knows Sides Eccentric Obsessive Obsessive Compulsive

Author:Demi Moore

“Manchester United could have any goalkeeper in the world. I was a 23-year-old kid from New Jersey who, from an early age, had to cope with Tourettes Syndrome, a brain disorder that can trigger speech and facial tics, vocal outbursts and obsessive compulsive behavior.”

“Some of my music requires an obsessive-compulsive approach and a real embodiment of excessiveness. So I really have to live in that world of overstimulation. Sometimes I think it's like a drug; more is more, and you can never get enough. The older I get, the more I crave that excessive aesthetic. It's never going to satisfy me.”

Thinking World Real Sometimes Enough Drug Approach Aesthetic Crave Obsessive Embodiment Obsessive Compulsive Excessiveness Overstimulation

Author:Sufjan Stevens

“As an actor, I don't have any politics. As an actor, I'm driven more by an authentic - I would say an obsessive-compulsive-disorder level-fixation on mimicry, tonality of voice, to literally imitate something until I can just disappear into it.”

I Can Actors Voice Levels Disappear Driven Disorder Obsessive Fixation Mimicry Obsessive Compulsive Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Author:Edward Norton

“If I like chocolate it won't surprise you that I have a few chocolates in my fridge, but if you find out I've got 16 warehouses full of chocolate, you'd think I was insane. All these rich guys are insane, obsessive compulsive twits obsessed with money - money is all they think about - they're all nuts.”

Ifs Thinking Guy Rich Surprise Insane Obsessed Chocolate Nuts Obsessive Fridges Warehouse Obsessive Compulsive Twits

Author:John Cleese

“I think I am becoming obsessive-compulsive. David Beckham apparently turns all the Diet Coke cans in his fridge to face the same way every morning, and I nerdily sharpen all the pencils in my pot before sitting down to work.”

Thinking Way Faces Turns Morning Becoming Sitting Diets Pot Every Morning Pencils Obsessive Coke Sitting Down Fridges Beckham Diet Coke Obsessive Compulsive

Author:Andrew O'Hagan

“I've never told anyone this before, but I'm an obsessive-compulsive. I go back to my hotel room every evening and put the coat hangers back in order and open my bag and rearrange it. It takes a lot of my time, but if I don't do it I can't sleep.”

Ifs I Can Order Sleep Rooms Evening My Time Bags Hotel Coats Obsessive Hotel Rooms Can't Sleep I Can't Sleep Hangers Obsessive Compulsive Coat Hangers

Author:Freida Pinto

“If only I had discipline, but alas, it is only an obsessive-compulsive trait and the beauty of habit that causes me to return again and again to my work.”

Ifs Causes Return Habit Discipline Traits Again And Again Alas Obsessive Obsessive Compulsive

Author:Louise Erdrich

“I'm not as obsessive-compulsive about certain things; I give a lot of latitude to people and support people. I know that I can't do it myself and that you're only as good as the people you have behind you.”

People Knows Giving I Can Certain Behinds Support Behind You Obsessive Latitude Obsessive Compulsive

Author:Donna Karan

“[George Carlin] was obsessive about time; he was obsessive compulsive about his material and making things shorter and more perfect. He did an HBO hour every other year. It's live; you have to be off-stage at 55 minutes. It's a network; you've got to be off. And it's perfect.”

Years Hours Perfect Minutes Stage Materials Obsessive Hbo Obsessive Compulsive

Author:Jay Mohr

“I have got this obsessive compulsive disorder where I have to have everything in a straight line, or everything has to be in pairs.”

Inspirational Lines Pairs Disorder Obsessive Straight Lines Obsessive Compulsive Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Author:David Beckham

“I was diagnosed a number of years ago with obsessive-compulsive disorder - which everyone has, to some degree - and I have this really annoying trait where in conversation, I always steer it back to something that happened to me.”

Years Numbers Happened Conversation Degrees Years Ago Disorder Annoying Traits Obsessive Steers Obsessive Compulsive Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Author:Paula Poundstone

“I'm kind of an obsessive-compulsive person, like, neat obsessive.”

Kind Persons Neat Obsessive Obsessive Compulsive

Author:Liev Schreiber

“I have a little obsessive-compulsive personality. You can tell because I played online games for eight hours a day.”

Littles Games Hours Personality Eight Online Obsessive Obsessive Compulsive

Author:Felicia Day

“I’m probably just as good a mother as the next repressed, obsessive-compulsive paranoiac.”

Mother Next Obsessive Repressed Obsessive Compulsive

Book:Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year

Source: Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year

“love is a mental illness, an obsessive-compulsive disorder romanticized!”

Love Is Illness Mental Illness Disorder Obsessive Obsessive Compulsive Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Author:Eric Jerome Dickey

“Now, I'm as appreciative as the next obsessive-compulsive recovering-academic of the vast riches of material becoming available online, thanks to all those Google scanners crouched in the basements of libraries around the world, madly feeding books through their machines. I download obscure tomes onto my iPad and give thanks to the dual gods Gates and Jobs, singing hymns to all the lesser pantheon of geniuses. But there's nothing like a book.”

“I'm a hygiene freak. I'm like obsessive-compulsive when it comes to washing your hands.”

Hands Freak Washing Obsessive Hygiene Obsessive Compulsive Personal Hygiene

Author:Kelly Clarkson

“Welcome to the psychiatric hotline: if you are obsessive compulsive press one repeatedly. If you are schizophrenic listen closely and a little voice will tell you which number to press. If you have borderline personality disorder hang up; you have already pushed everybody's buttons.”

Ifs Littles Voice Numbers Personality Presses Psychological Welcome Disorder Buttons Obsessive Schizophrenic Hang Ups Psychiatric Borderline Personality Disorders Obsessive Compulsive

Author:Barbara Oakley

“I am methodical to the point of being obsessive-compulsive. And I have always been good at multi-tasking.”

Obsessive Methodical Multi Tasking Obsessive Compulsive

Author:Deepika Padukone

“Baseball is not necessarily an obsessive-compulsive disorder, like washing your hands 100 times a day, but it's beginning to seem that way. We're reaching the point where you can be a truly dedicated, state-of-the-art fan or you can have a life. Take your pick.”

Way Art States Hands Seems Fans Picks Baseball Reaching Disorder Dedicated Washing Obsessive Baseball Games Baseball Fans Obsessive Compulsive Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Author:Thomas Boswell

“We're not going to waste our valuable space or your precious energy by giving equal time to stories of tragedy, failure, and tumult. They get far more that their fair share of attention everywhere else. Future historians might even conclude that our age suffered from a collective obsessive-compulsive disorder: the pathological need to repetitively seek out reasons for how bad life is.”

Source: Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings

“Curing yourself of obsessive compulsive disorder by going to a strip club is pretty strange.”

Strange Clubs Disorder Obsessive Obsessive Compulsive Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Author:Tracy Kidder

“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.”

Thinking Writing Book Teacher Becoming Habit Bases Urban No Money Obsessive Being Free Firefighter Free Time English Teacher Obsessive Compulsive

Author:David Guterson

“It could be ventured to understand obsessive compulsive neurosis as the pathological counterpart of religious development, to define neurosis as an individual religiosity; to define religion as a universal obsessive compulsive neurosis.”

Religion Individual Religious Development Universal Obsessive Neurosis Counterparts Obsessive Compulsive

Author:Sigmund Freud

“I had really bad obsessive-compulsive disorder. At its worst, I was compelled to leave my house at three o'clock in the morning and go out in the alley because I just knew that the paper-towel roll I threw in the recycling bin was uncomfortable, like it was lying the wrong way, and I would be down in the garbage.”

“I had a Tourette's period. And obsessive compulsive disorder. Things would get in my brain that I couldn't get out of my brain.”

Brain Periods Disorder Obsessive Tourettes Obsessive Compulsive Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Author:Richard Ford

“Personally I'm obsessive-compulsive about the placement and cleanliness of my things.”

Obsessive Cleanliness Placement Obsessive Compulsive

Author:Chace Crawford

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