Famous Quotes & Sayings

Simon Sinek

Unhealthy cultures create addiction. Healthy cultures create social bonds.

Simon Pegg

The trouble with addiction is that you can park the car but you can never switch off the engine or stop yourself from hearing the revs.

Tommy Rettig

I had always turned it down-to me, smoking pot was absolutely the worst thing in the world. I thought of it as an addiction, and all my friends who smoked it, I felt they really needed help.

Susan Cheever

Addiction isnt about substance - you arent addicted to the substance, you are addicted to the alteration of mood that the substance brings.

Thomas Szasz

Addiction, obesity, starvation (anorexia nervosa) are political problems, not psychiatric: each condense and expresses a contest between the individual and some other person or persons in his environment over the control of the individual's body.

Thomas Szasz

If, nevertheless, textbooks of pharmacology legitimately contain a chapter on drug abuse and drug addiction, then, by the same token, textbooks of gynecology and urology should contain a chapter on prostitution; textbooks of physiology, a chapter on perversion; textbooks of genetics, a chapter on the racial inferiority of Jews and Negroes.

Russell Peters

This is our most dangerous addiction - our addiction to things. For it is this addiction that underlies the materialism of our age. And nowhere is this addiction more apparent than in our addiction to money.

Stella Adler

An addict is someone who uses their body to tell society that something is wrong.

Rosario Dawson

You really can't just take someone who's got a drug addiction and just put 'em in rehab. It doesn't work that way. You can't choose it for them. They have to choose it for themselves - because that's scary. It's really hard.

Shane Koyczan

Sometimes becoming drug free has less to do with addiction and more to do with sanity.

Scott Hall

All I've ever done is work in bars and be a wrestler; I often wonder if I'd have pumped gas, would I have been a womanizer and had addiction problems?

Ray Charles

[On his heroin addiction:] I did it to myself. It wasn't society...it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing.

Nolan Bushnell

I've always thought legal addictions are a great way to create a business. Starbucks is a wonderful example.

Michael Fassbender

For me, addiction comes down to basically where a pattern of behaviour has developed and that pattern of behaviour is becoming a very damaging cycle. It's sort of damaging your relationships, friends or lovers, it's damaging your own personal health and it's damaging for you and your workplace.

Michael Steinhardt

I was happier when pursuing success than I was when savoring its fruits; the attraction, perhaps the addiction, was in the process, as much as in its end.

What is dangerous about tranquillizers is that whatever peace of mind they bring is a packaged peace of mind. Where you buy a pill and buy peace of mind with it, you get conditioned to cheap solutions instead of deep ones.

Padgett Powell

I've had an addiction for a long time to the whole business of maximizing one's potential, what I call human activation. The vehicle for actualizing oneself is choice, options, seeking out the proper choices.

Paulo Coelho

MySpace is an addiction.

Marianne Williamson

Sobriety itself is today's high, for it is ultimately in the most centered consciousness that we find our power to transcend the world.

Mason Cooley

Addicts turn their pleasures into vengeful Gods.

Mary Kay Ash

People fail forward to success.

Lorna Luft

One trait of addictive families is that we never recognize our own addictions.

Pornography has set up unrealistic expectations by young men concerning their wife and women in general. In some cases, the addiction has become so bad that they can't perform sexually without pornographic stimulus.

Nicotine addiction is such a powerful force that even the heartbreak of watching a family member die of lung cancer often isn't enough to convince smokers to quit.

One thing we do know: Just slamming them in jail doesn't work. They come out with the same addiction they went in with, and they don't have the social or vocational skills to help them cope and find a new life.

Michael Irvin

More important to me is to help my friends and help my brother and to remove this drug addiction spirit out of my family.

More than corrupting the public trust, these Guatemalan police officials have been Trojan horses for the very addiction and devastation that they were entrusted to prevent.

She's relaxing more. She laid off Healthy Addiction and pounced.

She's dealing with a serious drug addiction and trying to get through it. It's not my unwillingness to reconnect, but she's not ready. Maybe when she's on the road to recovery.

Sexual addiction is the fastest-growing addiction in the United States. It's based in part on the fact that obtaining sexual literature, pornography, is so convenient today. It's more readily available. It is there at the click of a finger.

Should PROMETA prove to be as effective within the Pierce County Alliance drug offender population as it appears to be, the State will consider its effectiveness for use in treatment so that stimulant dependent individuals in Washington will be able to benefit from this therapy. Methamphetamine addiction is a serious issue and has ravaged Pierce County and is escalating throughout the state. Washington is pleased to join the States of Louisiana, Idaho, and Indiana in conducting accelerated commercial pilots of PROMETA.

I have a thing about duck, ... It's a culinary addiction -- when we eat out, my 'I'll have the duck' is so commonplace that my wife doesn't even bother to roll her eyes anymore.

Jeffrey Kluger

All behavioral or mood disorders - including depression, OCD, ADHD and addiction - have some neurochemical components, but sufferers can still work to overcome them.