The word "fixate" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe someone or something (including oneself) that focuses intently on an object or idea. Example: He seemed to have fixated on the idea that success was unattainable.
There is a tendency to fixate on how successful a track will be rather than get lost in the mad journey of how to make a record.
Using famous women makes it worse, because vulnerable people can fixate on a favourite writer and identify with them.
Doesn't the sheer length of the campaign encourage people to fixate on trivia (with just a few days to go, the current obsession is Sarah Palin's $150,000 wardrobe)?
They are also more likely to fixate on a "native solution" to a strategic problem than to consider other options: Germans look to mechanical engineering for answers, Britons favour the financial sort.Mr Ghemawat argues that C-suite parochialism helps to explain the relatively unimpressive performance of Western multinationals in emerging markets.
Academic economists in Germany tend to fixate on rules and targets, such as the arbitrary limits on budget deficits set by the euro-area's stability pact, itself a prime example of German thinking.
One is 1979, when Margaret Thatcher ousted Labour after the Winter of Discontent; the other, which they fixate on in private, is 1997, when Tony Blair's new model Labour Party won its first landslide.
People are no longer getting answers to their questions" because Republican fixate on ideological purity at the expense of pragmatism.He may be right, but challenging a generally effective incumbent Republican governor in a state that remains bright red will be hard.
That study relied on census data from 2001, and had a margin of error of 200,000.Politicians fixate on human trafficking, which is particularly offensive, both to law and order and to the people trafficked.
Management gurus fixate on the next big trend in such areas as innovation or business models.
I think Mr Blue's point below is astute as anyone is going to get tonight.8 34: Mr Red, You expect Ms O'Donnell to become an ex-vice president?8 30: Not to fixate too long on Ms O'Donnell, lest I prove you right Mr Purple, but she lost what should have been an unlosable race and made a fool of herself doing so.
Others fixate on their loss.
