I wanted to leave home, and I didn't know where I was going or what I was going to do or what would happen. That's youth, though. Being fixated on things. I was fixated on being a writer.
Being authentic can be a good thing in that often people who are fixated on that are also fixated on having very high standards, so they may maintain something they think has tremendous value. On the other hand, most of the kinds of music that I've b...
We often confuse determination with its evil twin: fixation. While determination is our ability to stand our ground while pursuing our goals. Fixation, on the other hand, is an unhealthy attachment to an ideal.
Dr. Fritz Lehman: Well, the love impulse in men very frequently reveals itself in terms of conflict. Susan Vance: [Excitedly] The love impulse! Dr. Fritz Lehman: Without my knowing anything about it, my rough guess would be, that he has a fixation on...
I don't fixate on other people's opinions of my body.
I have had death threats from people with fixations.
I know how people are. We fixate on controversy and all that.
But I sometimes think we have too much of a fixation about 2012.
I didn't ever want to leave Manhattan. I have an abnormal fixation.
I think people get fixated on the example of an idea.
A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.
I had the fixation that comes with being a Kennedy to be a great man on the big stage.
I'm kind of fixated with old Hollywood, like Marilyn Monroe.
Oversized houses, like oversized cars, seem to be a particularly American fixation.
To live fixated on the future is to engage in psychological denial. It is a form of psychic violence that prepares us to accept the violence needed to ensure the maintenance of imperialist, future-oriented society.
Most people in the world are Christ lovers. And then there are Christ haters. But all of them are fixated on Christ, and he perpetuates for ever.
It was just like a digital fixation with cards and math and science and then I started to look at images of great magicians from Houdini down the line.
A fixation with connecting with 'friends' online comes with the risk of disconnection with friends waiting for you to be present in the offline world.
If I have time to exercise, I do it, but I don't fixate on numbers like weight or waist size. Numbers don't work for me.
It's a widely-held belief that Millennials are obsessed with money. And it's also wildly true. Just don't mistake it for a fixation with getting rich.
Credit and debt keep us fixated on the past and the future.
