Quotes of: Addiction Keyword

The problem lies with us: we've become addicted to experts. We've become addicted to their certainty, their assuredness, their definitiveness, and in the process, we have ceded our responsibility, substituting our intellect and our intelligence for t...

Noreena Hertz

It's about avoiding reality through various escape routes that become addictions and lead to Hell. My character is addicted to television, chocolate, coffee, to her dream of her son, which has no basis in reality.

Ellen Burstyn

In the same way I am addicted to puddings - the sweeter the better - I have become addicted to the daily routines my Pilates and Gyrotonic guru, Nada, puts me through.

Ben Elliot

I started to write in about 1950; I was thirty-five at the time; there didn't seem to be any strong motivation. I simply was endeavoring to put down in a more or less straightforward journalistic style something about my experiences with addiction an...

William S. Burroughs

[first lines] Heroin Addict: Fuckin' deadly you are, man. Guy: Don't fucking... don't fucking go near that case. Heroin Addict: What? I'm just tying me laces, man.

Once

Just like using drugs and alcohol to numb the pain can -- and does -- lead to addiction, using social media to fill the void of relationships, or other needs, often leads to addiction, as well.

Life

What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction.

Choke

Using Facebook is like taking a Dyson to your spare time.

The Facebook Diet: 50 Funny Signs of Facebook Addiction and Ways to Unplug with a Digital Detox

Some, they didn't make it. The temptation just too strong. How can darkness cloud the mind To what I know as wrong?

Beautiful Junkie: Poems about Addiction and Recovery

The punishment approach and bad consequences approach to treatment is the kind of thinking that is prevalent in every residential substance abuse treatment center in the United States of which I'm aware.

The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure

I began asking myself just what my high was about. What did I do when I was high that I didn't do when I was sober? What was wrong that heroin fixed?

The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure

Only discovering and healing the root causes of each individual's dependency puts an end to dependency. One-on-one sessions are key because the individual issues at the core of dependency are just that- completely individual.

The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure

Here God is not approached as an object that we must love, but as a mystery present in the very act of love itself.

The Idolatry of God: Breaking Our Addiction to Certainty and Satisfaction

I've been very lucky in my life in terms of people who are able to tolerate me.

Silver Screen Fiend: Learning About Life from an Addiction to Film

Addiction does not cause partner abuse, and recovery from addiction does not “cure” partner abuse.

Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men

I started riding bikes when I was really young, but I stopped when I was 19 because my mother asked me to, so I stopped riding for 35 years and now I'm just addicted. It is my only addiction.

Mark Boone Junior

I am more than just a serious basketball fan. I am a life-long addict. I was addicted from birth, in fact, because I was born in Kentucky and I learned, early on, that Habitual Domination was a natural way of life.

Hunter S. Thompson

We are fossil fuel addicts. What happens when drug addicts detox? They can be rash, cranky, even psychotic and dangerous. It would be good for the environment if the entire economy abruptly quit fossil fuels, but that's not realistic. I wouldn't want...

The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World

Law is a very addictive profession.

George Carman

Facebook has been spreading across the continents faster than a highly contagious Asian bird flu!

The Facebook Diet: 50 Funny Signs of Facebook Addiction and Ways to Unplug with a Digital Detox

I spent the rest of that day and most of the night thinking about all the hundreds of people I had met in rehabs and sober living houses and on the streets. We were all medicating our fears and our pain!

The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure