Quotes about Fixation

The mind feasts on what it focuses on.

If in our thoughts we constantly fix attention upon sinister expectations of dire events that might happen, the result will be constantly to feel insecure.

That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.

Let Rufus weep, rejoice, stand, sit, or walk, Still he can nothing but of Nævia talk: Let him eat, drink, ask Questions, or dispute, Still he must speak of Nævia, or be mute. He writ to his Father, ending with this Line, I am, my Lovely Nævia, ever thine.

Only a monomaniac gets anything done.

They adorn it with silver and gold and fasten it with hammer and nails, so that it will not totter.

What began as an apparently harmless pastime has ended up as a frightening, overpowering addiction or obsession.

Yet the room was all in all to me, Estella being in it.

I couldn't bear to think about it; and yet, somehow, I couldn't think about nothing else.

I'm hooked on Glenn Close in 'Damages.'

One great cause of failure is lack of concentration.

When you don't become fixated on winning the prize or appearing successful, and instead pursue your passions, then you will discover the fulfillment that comes from living by instinct.