Obsess

Performance pay linked to test scores creates incentives for teachers to essentially do the wrong thing: Obsess on teaching kids how to do well on the tests -- in math and reading -- while giving short shrift to other vital subjects.

Study: N.Y. teacher performance pay program flops 2010

Obsess over the little details, even if you never use them!

Transcript: Non-Human Characters « Coyote Con 2010

However, the success of Gilbert's Eat, Pray Love, a book with many important and relevant themes (domestic discontent, divorce, identity, depression) reads like one long Seventeen magazine spread, the appropriate title perhaps being, "How I Traveled for an Entire Year and Still Managed to Only Obsess About Myself and My Problems."

Koa Beck: The Elizabeth Gilbert Effect: The Ills of 'Feministy' Memoirs 2010

However, the success of Gilbert's Eat, Pray Love, a book with many important and relevant themes (domestic discontent, divorce, identity, depression) reads like one long Seventeen magazine spread, the appropriate title perhaps being, "How I Traveled for an Entire Year and Still Managed to Only Obsess About Myself and My Problems."

The Elizabeth Gilbert Effect: The Ills of 'Feministy' Memoirs 2010

By encouraging further talk about the matter, Armey was impeding Job 1 of the G.O.P. and the Washington media: Obsess about Monica Lewinsky all the time.

David Fiderer: When Joe Scarborough Dragged Dick Armey Out of a Closet of Shame 2009

Obsess over unlocking new value from hidden assets.

Mark Payne: Lance Armstrong Has A Growth Strategy For You 2009

Obsess about what it will feel like to win -- and how horrible it would be to lose.

Robert Creamer: Two Thoughts Must Obsess Every Progressive for the Next Six Days To Assure Victory on Tuesday 2008

Obsess over filmmakers like Welles, Huston and Hitchcock, as well as surrealists like Cocteau and Deren.

On with 2008 . . . 2008

So go ahead, if you must: Obsess over whether Hillary will bask in Bill's warm glow or disappear in his shadow.

Bella DePaulo: Look Who Likes Hillary. Here's Why 2008

Obsess over your writing instead and you'll be much better off.

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