So, I've had an obsession basically for 30 years, and that obsession has been, What makes the difference in the quality of peoples lives?

Romantic love is an obsession. It possesses you.

And last but not least, it is an obsession.

And the obsession can get worse when you've been rejected.

The national obsession is cricket, which is not an Olympic sport.

You know, in the communication of science there is this obsession with seriousness.

Indeed, Piketty argues that our obsession with growth merely serves as an excuse for not doing anything about health, about education, or about redistribution. And it is an obsession rooted very much in the present.

But the obsession with maintaining tradition in this way is not without a cost.

Now a fourth factor really becomes an obsession, which is, never betray the illusion.

A kind of sense of inner freedom as opposite to intense grasping and obsession.

Each time it goes to the object, it reinforces that obsession or that annoyance.

To me, this obsession is the source and root of all of our productivity and creativity.

The second of these three brain systems is romantic love that elation, obsession of early love.

And so kind of thinking about scale, my most recent obsession is actually with glaciers of course.

At the same time, I run a website on cool tools, where I issue a daily obsession of the latest things in technology.

Born in Southern Germany to a stable and well respected middle class family, his obsession with gaming as a teenager led him to hacking.

Why has science turned after only a few years from repudiating the existence of racial differences between human beings to generating a near obsession with them?

If you live only once, in one life cultures around the world, you will see an obsession with binary logic, absolute truth, standardization, absoluteness, linear patterns in design.

Of course, it is also possible that Gibraltar and Bermuda have chosen to ignore the results, or dispute their significance. Either way, there is no doubting the global obsession with league tables nowadays.

Improving financial literacy would also help. The current obsession with government deficits and budgetary constraints should not deflect attention from the need for reforms that address the looming retirement crisis confronting many Americans.

Algeria unlike certain countries, which are ready to make any and all concessions simply to realize an ambition bordering on obsession is not prepared to settle for cut rate I repeat, cut rate permanent seats.

Obsession with doom and gloom scenarios distracts us from the real global threats. Poverty is one of the greatest killers of all, while easily curable diseases still claim 15 million lives every year 25 of all deaths.

Global warming really is the moral test of our time, but not in the way its proponents imagine. We need to stop our obsession with global warming and start dealing with more pressing and tractable problems first.

Lego blocks playtime mainstay for industrious kids, obsession for many mature adults. Hillel Cooperman takes us on a trip through the beloved bricks' colorful, sometimes oddball grownup subculture, featuring CAD, open source robotics and a little adult behavior.

Pakistan is badly fractured, with domestic terrorism running rampant. Its military lacks the capacity to intervene in Saudi Arabia s defense while maintaining not only domestic security, but also readiness for war against India (an obsession of Pakistani generals).

And this shows that engineers, medical people, scientific people, have an obsession with solving the problems of reality, when actually most problems, once you reach a basic level of wealth in society, most problems are actually problems of perception.

Although Schumpeter brilliantly captured the inherent dynamism of entrepreneur led capitalism, his modern real successors smothered his insights in their obsession with equilibrium and instant adjustments. For Schumpeter, there was something both noble and tragic about the spirit of capitalism.

Now, keeping these ideas firmly in mind, we can say that the experience of beauty is one of the ways that evolution has of arousing and sustaining interest or fascination, even obsession, in order to encourage us toward making the most adaptive decisions for survival and reproduction.

And if you look at these qualities in the context of compassion, we find that the cognitive and affective components of compassion understanding people and empathizing with people inhibits, tones down, what I call the excessive self obsession that's in us, therefore creating the conditions for humility.

The right, for its part, must rethink its obsession with temporary tax cuts for households or businesses. The impact of such cuts on aggregate demand is almost always modest, and they are poorly suited for shifting expectations for recovery and growth in the post financial crisis downturn.

Over the next few months, newspapers and television stations ran with the story as it snowballed into a national obsession. Alarmed by the public reaction, the Harbin magistrate ordered the case reopened, only to have the suspended sentence confirmed when the case was closed this March.

The prevailing obsession with the governance agenda entails a broad based effort to remold institutions in developing societies as a prerequisite for economic growth. The United Nations Millennium Project involves a large scale, coordinated big push of investment in human capital, public infrastructure, and agricultural technologies.

Fayaadism, by contrast, seeks the Zionization of the Palestinian national movement. It imbues the Palestinian cause with a positive ethos of nation and state building by superseding Palestinian nationalism s diaspora centered preoccupations and thereby transcending the paralyzing obsession with a never fulfilled vindication of rights and justice.

Germany cannot, however, indulge its obsession with supply side reforms without also pursuing growth enhancing policies. As Germany knows from its own experience in the early 2000s, the benefits of supply side reforms namely, improved competitiveness and higher long term growth rates take a long time to emerge.

In particular, the two countries whose problems drove much of the need for twentieth century European integration Germany and Italy were culturally and politically highly diverse. In both countries, early nineteenth century romantic nationalism gave way to a sober obsession with economic forces after the failed revolutions of 1848.

It took nearly a century for the natives to learn the sport, but when they did, they took to it like snakes to their charmers. Today, the public s obsession has made India into the sport s global financial powerhouse, with advertisers and sponsors pouring unheard of sums into the game.

Israel needs to understand that its nuclear strategy cannot be sustained forever, and that Iran s challenge to its supposed nuclear monopoly is not an obsession exclusive to the Iranian leadership. A Middle East free of nuclear weapons certainly is preferable to a region with two or more nuclear weapons states.

Peaceful change in Syria can nonetheless be achieved, and the international community can influence that process by recognizing that its continued focus on the country's complexity does nothing for its people. In fact, the obsession with Syria's sectarian rivalries provides destabilizing external forces with the oxygen that their inflammatory rhetoric requires.

Candidate Romney was so cowed by his party s obsession with low taxes that he never put forth a budget that added up. It was left to his spinners to explain, as The Economist put it, that this was necessary rubbish, concocted to persuade the fanatics who vote in the Republican primaries.

Combined with the raw military capacity that the US brings to the table, this means that America is powerful enough to enforce the peace and provide stability for commerce to thrive. America s presence and bilateral partnerships are complementary to Asian states obsession with counter dominance and non interference in the region.

Indian couples have a strong cultural preference, bordering on obsession, for sons over daughters despite the strides in education and employment that women have made over the last few decades. Education and wealth have nothing to do with it in fact, some of the worst affected areas are in India s wealthiest cities.

Using historical analogies to interpret the present is both tempting and dangerous, for history never truly repeats itself. Yet, to understand the difficulty of responding to the problems that Iran s nuclear ambition and anti Israel obsession now pose, it might be helpful to analyze the three analogies that are most commonly used.

And for the purposes of this talk, I wanted to isolate just a part of a project that's even a part of a project that touches a little bit on this theme of architectural special effects, and it happens to be our current obsession, and it plays a little bit with the purging and adding of distraction.

Or, on the contrary, is there something odd in the way that the European fringes obsessively resort to historical milestones? In Britain and Russia, this obsession appears to be not just a way to assert national interests, but also a mechanism for appealing to a population disenchanted with the contemporary realities of decline from the imperial past.

The reason for this failure is simple the West has allowed short term tactical concerns to impede the development of a long term strategic vision. This obsession with tactics has affected governance at all levels, from local administrations to supranational institutions, allowing major actors to operate within uncoordinated realities, without any shared goals guiding their decision making.