Kami Garcia Quotes

Sometimes you fixate on something so much that everything else fades away.

I'm obsessive when I get an idea in my head.

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.

I'm woefully one-track-minded.

I become quite obsessive when I get into something.

I think talent has a huge amount to do with concentration, concentration rather than the athletic ability of your neurons. If you can concentrate on an esoteric piece of math, how can you think about the rest of your life? That's why people can leave their car keys in the gutter; they're in the midst of obsession and concentration.

People see everything through the lens of their obsessions.

I don't even think about the word. But I do have certain things where I just go, "Aaaaahhh," irritatingly boring and insistent because I want it to look that way and I can do it - I don't even know if you'd call it passion or obsession. Obsession, possibly, but I really love what I do.

And people with obsessions, reflected Bond, were blind to danger.

When a man says he does not want to speak of something he usually means he can think of nothing else.

It's all you think about, all you talk about, and all you want us to talk about. What in the world would we call something like that? Oh, yeah! An obsession!

I just spent my whole life training and focused on one thing, I really don't even think about after the fact! It's like, oh yeah, I have to do something after!

'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.

I think people get fixated on the example of an idea.

It's always exciting to play characters who are obsessive because all their energy is so focused on that one thing and they're eccentric because of it.

Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else.

When I'm writing something and I'm really into it, that's all I can think about, and it becomes the most important thing in the world to me, and it may not be that, in reality.

I tend to obsess over my passions.

I'm an obsessive. When I get a problem, a question in my mind, it can take me over.

There's also a sense of freedom. I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about if all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night, and that went on for eight years.

A zealot is a person who, having forgotten his original purpose, redoubles his efforts.

If you obsess about one thing, you're just going to miss the broader picture.

When I get something in my head, it's hard for me to just let it go.

I guess I get really obsessive or passionate about things.

People who are obsessed amuse me.