Compulsives Quotes & Sayings

You are right to demand that an artist engage his work consciously, but you confuse two different things: solving the problem and correctly posing the question. — Anton Chekhov

Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments. — Erica Jong

'Sesame Street' is awesome - not only because they teach, edify and entertain kids but because they savvily make it possible to do so with parental engagement, because the show is loaded with references for Mom and Dad. — Rachel Sklar

The mind can take in many things, but it cannot take in God. — Rita Leganski

There are those who believe that the value of a children's book can be measured only in terms of the moral lessons it tries to impose or the perfect role models it offers. Personally, I happen to think that a book is of extraordinary value if it gives the reader nothing more than a smile or two. In fact, I happen to think that's huge. — Barbara Park

Make a life with me, one that comes from love, one that I can watch grow in you. Only a fool would believe that what comes from what we have together would be anything but beautiful. — Nora Roberts

Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy. — Anthony Burgess

Good things come to obsessive compulsives who fixate. — Kieran Culkin

The only people I ever met who were sensible all the time were so boring that watching them could put you to sleep. — Robert Jordan

All of us task-oriented obsessive compulsives must learn to slow down and let people into our lives. — Hans Finzel

Intellectuals range through the finest gradations of kind and quality: from those who are merely educated neurotics, usually with strong hidden reactionary tendencies, through mediocrities of all kinds, to men of real brains and sensibility, more or less stiffened into various respectabilities or substitutes for respectability. The number of Ignorant Specialists is large. The number of hysterics and compulsives is also large. — Louise Bogan