Zac Posen

If you're entering into fashion in an original way, you have to know your craft, and you have to know your history. You have to be obsessively dedicated. You have to be relentless about making it happen. It doesn't take a bank. It takes passion, love, timing, and luck.

American Designer

Kaskade

When you go see a good DJ, you'll know it, man - you'll know it in your bones. Between the guy who's phoning it in and the guy who's obsessively working it to give you the best show of his life.

American Musician

Joan Didion

A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.

American Author

Jacques Derrida

These critics organize and practice in my case a sort of obsessive personality cult which philosophers should know how to question and above all, to moderate.

French Philosopher

Ishaan Khatter

I've worked towards self-development as an aspiring artiste. I've been most passionate about dancing and acting, so I have followed it obsessively.

Indian Actor

Ethan Slater

I've always been somebody who sort of throws himself, you could say, obsessively into whatever thing I'm passionate about.

American Actor

Trinny Woodall

I will admit I am quite obsessive about the world of anti-ageing.

English Designer

Eddi Reader

I've been a massive obsessive about jazz singers all my life.

Scottish Musician

Simon Helberg

I guess I get really obsessive or passionate about things.

Paul Wesley

I played ice hockey obsessively for 14 years of my life.

Use 'obsessive' to describe someone's interest that consumes their thoughts and actions beyond normal.

Overwhelming Interest

'Obsessive' often has a negative connotation, suggesting a lack of balance or control.

Negative Nuance

'Obsessive' implies an unhealthy level of focus that may interfere with daily life.

Unhealthy Focus

When used as a noun, 'obsessive' personifies a deep passion or preoccupation with something.

Personified Passion

As a noun, calling someone 'an obsessive' can be neutral, highlighting dedication rather than dysfunction.

Not Always Negative

Use 'obsessive' in medical terms to describe symptoms or conditions related to obsession.

Medical Context

It is appropriate to link 'obsessive' with disorders like OCD to explain repetitive thoughts or actions.

Psychological Disorder

In medical or psychological contexts, 'obsessive' signifies a serious condition that can impact one's health.

Serious Implications

 a perfectly wonderful addiction when it's going well, and a perfectly horrible addiction when it's going poorly. And indeed, it has all of the characteristics of addiction. You focus on the person, you obsessively think about them, you crave them, you distort reality, your willingness to take enormous risks to win this person.

The brain in love PIPE...

 she can't even touch the air give it anything that has belonged to the chicken she can't touch it's not hers no see now this is my what I like right now even though she's facing she she is beat she's breeding that obsessively now it's just part of life okay I never done this right but it

Dog vs. Chicken PIPE Dog...

 with the admonition, be perfect. Never ever, ever make a mistake, but you worry about the details, about how that's going to happen. And that was the message that I absorbed when I was in med school. I was an obsessive compulsive student. In high school, a classmate once said

Brian Goldman: Doctors...

 enough to cover the expedition and turn a profit. An obsessive chronicler, Pigafetta described the lands and people they encountered. With the help of a humble slave, he also compiled the world's first phrase book of native languages.

How Magellan circumnaviga...

 That was the worst year. I was obsessively curious about sex and also deeply ashamed by it. It wasn't my only problem, of course, not by a long shot, but it was the beginning of a downward spiral. And my bad luck was to hit bottom

Let's talk about sex -...

 he raises the alarm forty minutes beforehand which gives Tony enough time to make herself safe and avoid injury when AJ's alerted to a major seizure he licks obsessively at my left hand almost as if it's covered in something like

Amazing Dogs Smell Human...

 like excessive hand washing, or checking things repeatedly, may be examples of obsessive or compulsive tendencies that many of us exhibit from time to time. But the actual disorder is far more rare and can be quite debilitating.

Debunking the myths of...

 such as Parkinson’s disease, epilepsy, and obsessive compulsive disorder. The pain of a cancer diagnosis can be devastating, but advancements in these non-invasive procedures are paving a pathway for a more gentle cure.

Performing brain surgery...

 but what it actually is doesn't really matter my obsessive quest to capture what is normally well beyond human perception attracted amazing partners and gave me access to some of the world's most

Let your eyes do the...

 well, after all, I'm not weird. Everybody knows that people who pursue their passions are somewhat obsessive. A little strange. Hmm? Hmm? Okay? You know, a fine line between madness and genius.