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Tag Name "Fixation" (22)

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Fixation is the way to death. Fluidity is the way to life.
Miyamoto Musashi
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Detach from emotions and desires get rid of any fixations.
Zhuge Liang
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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.
David Blaine
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As an actor, I don't have any politics. As an actor, I'm driven more by an authentic - I would say an obsessive-compulsive-disorder level-fixation on mimicry, tonality of voice, to literally imitate something until I can just disappear into it.
Edward Norton
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Zen is the fastest method I know of, aside from mysticism, of dissolving the fixations people have about spiritual practice and themselves.
Frederick Lenz
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In Old Zen, the Zen Master would do literally anything to break down the concept of what the study was. He would present conflicting codes all the time, just to shake this fixation people had on how to attain liberation.
Frederick Lenz
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...a fixation is very stubborn: it burrows into the brain and breaks the heart. There are many fixations, but love is the worst.
Isabel Allende
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In college, I had a big fixation with Southern Gothic literature. Flannery O'Connor, I read every word she's ever written.
Jeff Feuerzeig
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The Republicans, with their crazed Reagan fixation, are a last-gasp party, living posthumously, fighting battles on sex, race, immigration and public education long ago won by the other side. They're trying to roll back the clock, but time is passing them by.
Maureen Dowd
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When you cast away all your greed and fixation in adversity, you can find unexpected strength.
Momofuku Ando
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A culture fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history a quietly mad population is a tractable one.
Naomi Wolf
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Obsessions and fixations are not really my field. All I know, when the mind really grabs hold of something, look out.
Sybil Adelman
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The real enemy of happiness is the mind's fixations and delusions... If you have the right mind, you can overcome anything - you can be happy, no matter what.
Dalai Lama
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I like to mimic my grandkids. I'm trying to understand the intensity of fixation on a leaf. Kids don't need anything else in their life.
Dustin Hoffman
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I have had death threats from people with fixations.
Enya
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To be fixated on Sahaja Samadhi is to be fixated. To be fixated on the idea of being not fixated is fixation too. All these ideas and definitions about enlightenment become silly.
Frederick Lenz
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Get your emotions under control and your life under control. Work really hard and don't make a big deal out of yourself. Have humility. Believe in yourself. Don't get a fanatical fixation on a teacher.
Frederick Lenz
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Where are we going? You never told me. My home in Romania. Wow, this guy wasn’t kidding with his Dracula fixation.
Jeaniene Frost
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Furthermore, [Sigmund Freud] had a racial fixation on sex, a fixation sufficiently pronounced to cause it to infect contagiously all modern European stock.
L. Ron Hubbard
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A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.
Naomi Wolf
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Oversized houses, like oversized cars, seem to be a particularly American fixation.
Susan Orlean
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We’re all misfits herefrom our weirdnesses and our differences, from our manic fixations, our obsessions, our passions. From all those wild and wacky things that make each of us unique.
Terri Windling