Like Nietzsche's own writings on education, most of mine were relatively youthful ones. Both were inspired by a critical animus against prevailing trends in education: in Nietzsche's case, the production either of 'useless', dry-as-dust scholars or people 'useful' for the needs of an expanding industrial economy; in my case, a similar subjection of education to economic imperatives, but also to ideological obsessions, notably with promoting 'equality'.
It's about living in the moment and appreciating the smallest things. Surrounding yourself with the things that inspire you and letting go of the obsessions that want to take over your mind. It is a daily struggle sometimes and hard work but happiness begins with your own attitude and how you look at the world.
. . . obsessions are always dangerous.
You repeat things because they're like your personal obsessions
We sometimes drive ourselves crazy with how our books will be "seen," when in fact we already know what they're about, and where our obsessions are. If we can spin those obsessions into fiction, then there's a decent chance they will be "fiction-worthy," as you call it. The idea of the "sweep of ideas" is a complicated one.
Follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
Writers end up writing about their obsessions. Things that haunt them; things they can’t forget; stories they carry in their bodies waiting to be released.
The fears and anxieties and obsessions wrapped up in being a parent.
My obsessions used to be my protectors, but now they have taken me prisoner.
Love is an obsession. It has that quality to it. But there are healthy obsessions, and mine is one of them.
It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.
My personal obsessions are much more interesting to me than other people's.
People see everything through the lens of their obsessions.
'm a big fan of revenge, I think [Sweeney Todd] it's a story of a man who clearly has obsessions to avenge the horror that happened to him.
Irrational crushes, infatuations, or obsessions. Whatever you want to label it, it's important to reach out to others.
I think it's obsessions that a lot of people share, but they don't dare to talk about openly.
It's a silly thing, but I like to understand people through their obsessions.
Just as ecstasy purifies you of the particular and the contingent, leaving nothing except light and darkness, so insomnia kills off the multiplicity and diversity of the world, leaving you prey to your private obsessions.
Obsessions and fixations are not really my field. All I know, when the mind really grabs hold of something, look out.
The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all.
