Many revealed a personal magnificent obsession in their formulas for success.
In addition to expecting his entrepreneurs to apply sensible commercial disciplines, such as knowing their market, Mr Hommels looks for obsession in the people he backs.
From the beginning, the silent cinema was an art devoted to physical risk and to primitive passions, to rage, lust, ambition, and obsession (silence made emotions more extreme in many ways), and it produced obsession in its huge audience.
The gist of her post is that Magic is dorky and that her date was obligated to disclose his obsession in his profile, and not wait until the second date to tell her about something that he spends a fair amount of his time doing.
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Sehat Sutardja and Dai run the company as an obsession and in their own image.
But the journey will transcend that obsession, in large part, because Mahler has fallen in love.
Dhoni says the shift from his football obsession came in the 1994-95 season.
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Children with EIIs show a level of interest, bordering on obsession, in a particular class of objects for a limited time.
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That Mr. Zulawski found a fertile subject early on in the fallout of desire and obsession is evident in two vivid shorts made for Polish television, both involving love triangles: "Pavoncello" (1967), based on a story by Stefan Zeromski, and "The Song of Triumphant Love" ("Piesn triumfujacej milosci, " 1967), from a tale by Ivan Turgenev.
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Many expect, perhaps too optimistically, that France's new leader will convince Angela Merkel of Germany to temper her obsession with austerity in the European economy.
At present, that obsession is often focused in the wrong place: at university level.
An obsession with the ways in which the history of Niagara Falls is a history of falsification, prevarication and omission.
More important, policymakers' obsession with cutting deficits in the short term has deflected attention from the more important question of how to do it.
News Corporation executives speak with bemusement or despair of the boss's obsession with what goes in his papers, down even to the placement of stories.
The ultimate expression of this obsession with weight sits in Goetz's shop: a 30-meter cabin cruiser made out of some of the same materials as Route 66.
The journal is a book Douglas referred to in Magnificent Obsession, and which he actually wrote ten years later as an overture to the best seller because of the significant number of people who wanted to know what the journal actually contained.
Look back at Britain's industrial history with today's obsession with the Internet in mind, and you start to grasp at what may be the truest answer of all: that what went wrong with British manufacturing industry was not that it declined so fast, but that so much effort went into arresting that decline.
In a week of obsession I could not come up with a suitable excuse but here, in a desperate moment, I came up with the perfect solution.
Our obsession with causality is reflected in the authors seeing causality where none exists.
The court heard his "obsession" led to tension in his relationship with his alleged victim.
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Mahler's obsession with death surfaces early in this symphony.
It was not until the election of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, a soccer mad Corinthians fan, that the political will existed to reform the country's national obsession -- legislation followed in 2003 with mandatory relegation being introduced for the first time.
In the realm of the literary arts, Mr. Magill has a field day, zeroing in on Rousseau as the source of our modern literary obsession with sincerity, which the author finds manifest in German and English Romanticism, American Transcendentalism, French Symbolism and other currents that come to look like a tidal wave in favor of finding and flaunting the unvarnished self.
Invention has its own algorithm: genius, obsession, serendipity, and epiphany in some unknowable combination.
And I am not alone in judging that that obsession and focus is largely driven by political considerations.
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