Compulsive Quotations

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

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

Usually, I am a compulsive person, and I need - sometimes urgently - to paint... Painting is close to poetry, is a kind of poetry expressed visually. It has to be spontaneous, rapid - at least in my case.

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.

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

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

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

Crawford washed her hands a lot. She washed her arms all the way up past her elbows. She just couldn't get enough done in that direction. She was compulsive about being clean, clean, clean!

You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do. You want to be focused on it.

I'm a compulsive note-taker, and I used to feel self-conscious about pulling out my little notebook and taking notes during a casual conversation. Then I noticed that people really seemed to enjoy it; the fact that I was taking notes made their remarks seem particularly insightful or valuable. Now I don't hold myself back.

She's obsessed with cleaning. I think she has OCD, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder about dirt.

I had issues. I was a compulsive runner. I had an eating disorder. And I needed to look at that ... how to get peace with that in a way, and how to deal with not being the same person that I was before the attack, and come to some peace that that's OK -- that different doesn't mean worse.

Have you heard about the latest 12 step group for compulsive talkers? It's called ... On and On Anonymous.

I'm always looking for a good deal. I'm meaner than a woman as far as going shopping. I'm a compulsive shopper.

My work in general involves getting over my fears that are deeply embedded since childhood: Fear of darkness, fear of dangerous activities in general, and fear of dirt - I had a considerable obsessive compulsive disorder as a child.

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

We work crazy hours in Silicon Valley; my wife says we're all kind of diseased in some way. We're totally obsessive compulsive - when we see an idea, we're like, 'let me in, it's so much fun.'

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

While my seemingly compulsive school-hopping has raised some eyebrows among my peers and caused my parents understandable consternation, I do not regret it.

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.

Compulsive eating is an emotional problem, and we use an emotional approach to its solution.

We see compulsive gamblers of all sizes and shapes.

The rewards that compulsive gamblers get are only one step removed from exogenous chemicals, unless you are a big winner.

I'm sure that my compulsive eating habits began when I was a baby.

I'm not a compulsive writer. I wish I could be compulsive about something. I have no regular writing routine.

I'm very rigid about my schedule. I sit down at 8 A.M., and the Internet blocker goes on. My standard time is 120 minutes. I'm a compulsive writer, so it reminds me to stop writing... If I write more than that, I turn into an ogre for my kids.

I'm a compulsive storyteller, an avid reader, and have always nurtured the secret goal of spending my life as a writer.

That's an awful lot of people to be afflicted by the disease of compulsive gambling. Wouldn't you call that an epidemic?

It seemed very, very similar to the experience of people who are compulsive gamblers, ... While it's always dangerous to anthropomorphize, it seemed as if these monkeys got a high out of getting a big reward that obliterated any memory of all the losses that they would experience following that big reward.

I don't know if I have good habits, but I'm very devoted to writing. I'm very compulsive about having a project, at least one, and trying to follow the business as much as I can. I keep on top of all the entertainment business news.

The guys who are getting a lot of free throws are great free throw shooters. J.P. shot like 500 every day this summer. He's the most meticulous, driven worker. There's a reason why they're shooting like that. Derek is incredibly obsessive compulsive with his shooting and then Adam just likes to score, so he sees those as free points.

It's a lot of information to go through, but what the employees understand is that someone with one type of compulsive behavior may be predisposed to other addictive problems. Over time, in working with Harvard, we hope to understand what sort of programs and treatments work.

I do write about obsession, but I don't think I have an obsession for writing. I'm not a compulsive writer. I like to watch obsession in other people, watch the way it makes them behave.

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

Remind me to write an article on the compulsive reading of news. The theme will be that most neuroses can be traced to the unhealthy habit of wallowing in the troubles of five billion strangers.