Dan Levy

It's that stubborn fixation on details that has invariably prevented me from getting excited about celebrating each passing year. Which is why my friends know that doing things such as throwing me surprise parties would only serve to surprise me with an overwhelming sense of panic and anxiety.

American Comedian

Christoph Waltz

You see, my version of why anyone would want to become an actor is that it's some psychological fixation, something that happened in puberty that you didn't outgrow in time, which is normal. Nevertheless, if you make it a profession, it can be really neurotic.

Austrian Actor

Francois Lelord

Finding love is a fixation now, and that's because although romantic love can sometimes cause a lot of suffering, it can also give people peaks of happiness that come very close to our ideal of 'the happy state.

French Author

Amanda Crew

It's weird but I've never really been the type to have fixations on the leading man actor. I've always been drawn more to the rock star. I love a guy on the microphone commanding an audience.

Canadian Actress

Chelsea Clinton

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.

American Celebrity

Timothy Morton

Reductionism and elimination make one feel clever, but what happens when the meditator drops her fixation on feeling clever?

English Philosopher

David Liss

I was always a big Justice League fan. I always loved Batman, Superman - I have a weird Martian Manhunter fixation.

American Writer

Charles B. Rangel

I didn't ever want to leave Manhattan. I have an abnormal fixation.

American Politician

Linford Christie

But I sometimes think we have too much of a fixation about 2012.

British Athlete

Enya

I have had death threats from people with fixations.

Irish Musician

Often indicates a problematic level of interest beyond normal enthusiasm.

Unhealthy Obsession

Used to describe strong feelings that go beyond mere interest or liking.

Intensity of Emotion

Refers to a medical technique often used in surgeries or healing processes.

Medical Procedure

Implies securing a part of the body in a stable position for healing.

Physical Stability

Indicates an emotional state tied to developmental stages in early life.

Childhood Development

Related to Freudian concepts where early attachments influence adult personality.

Psychoanalytic Theory

Often involves converting a gaseous substance into a solid or absorbable form.

Biological Processes

Can relate to how organisms contribute to nutrient cycling in nature.

Environmental Science

 So he did amazing, I mean, it's incredible. If you're going to be fixated, be fixated by something amazing. That's a much better way, you know what I mean. So let's utilize that moment in your life and let's turn it into something positive. So that's what we did, you know, we turned it-- this fixation into something positive.

A Pitbull Becomes a...

 that has these optic blurs in them, and that's what tells your brain that you're moving. When you move forward, your eyes fixate like cameras, like snapshot cameras, it fixates, it fixates, little camera shots, and each time it fixates when you're moving forward, you get all this flowing outwards. So when you take a fixation,

Why do we see illusions?...

 tends to be fixated like if the kid loves race cars let's use race cars for math let's figure out how long it takes a racecar to go a certain distance in other words use that fixation in order to motivate that kid that's one of the things we need to do and really get fed up when the you know the teachers when

The world needs all...

 Like if the kid loves race cars, let's use race cars for math. Let's figure out how long it takes a race car to go a certain distance. In other words, use that fixation in order to motivate that kid, that's one of the things we need to do. I really get fed up when the teachers,

 fixation this horde of new admirers there were dozens tens of dozens each circling absorbed in the pull of your intensity and glamour of your orbit and some they paid the price for it they shattered lost their lives for it grew ridges wounds their ice our drift and

Life Beyond the Sun by...

 Well, the reality is, abortion is already an extremely safe surgical procedure. It is safer than childbirth. And imposing new restrictions on abortion only makes it less safe. In my view, what we're really talking about, this fixation on abortion by opponents,

The End of Roe v. Wade...

 I show a number of photographs and films, but I also make television programs, books and some advertising, all with the same concept. And it's about our fixation with celebrity and celebrity culture, and the importance of the celebrity is born of photography.

Alison Jackson: A...

 with its fixation on problems and not on answers has always really bugged me. So a few years ago I decided, well, I'm a journalist, I should see if I can do any better by going around the world and actually asking folks if and how they've tackled

The risky politics of...

 and all those complicated feelings that you amass after long-term love. But it felt like the benevolent feelings had risen to the surface, and the feelings of fixation and the less-generous feelings

Can we choose to fall...

 Too often our dreams become these compartmentalized fixations on some future that destroy our ability to be present for our lives right now. Our dreams of a better life for some future humanity

Fixation