Cameron was determined that his modernisation of the party would mean it being less obsessional and more pragmatic about the EU.
But I am not so obsessional about politics that it's the only thing I want to do.' He added: 'I've sailed on a great number of oceans in my life.
We all work for Mrs Jones".But not even the combination of its world-leading manufacturing, rapid product development and obsessional devotion to customer satisfaction is enough to explain Toyota's enduring success.
One of the more bizarre, if less conspiratorial, theories is that he bore an obsessional grudge against the mayor because the city refused to compensate him for damage caused to his car by a pothole.
In the corridors during a European summit, for instance, at which Helmut Kohl agreed to monetary union if Britain and France would accept German reunification, Mitterrand displays an obsessional fear about a unified Germany, telling Margaret Thatcher that it was like Munich in 1938.Ambiguity reached deep into his private as well as political life.
It opens with a quotation from "Der Doppelgänger", a Schubert/Heine song, and its passionate, obsessional, self-destructive hero has much in common with the alienated wanderers of Romantic lieder.
Nick Hornby, one of Britain's best-selling novelists, made his name with "Fever Pitch", a book about his obsessional support for Arsenal football club.
He was obsessional about English and fined editors whose newspapers had spelling mistakes.In 1988 Mr Ne Win announced his retirement.
One, Marion Barry, both triumphed as several times mayor of Washington DC, and disintegrated into financial corruption, obsessional womanising, drug dependency and even prison.Mr Halberstam's account is hardly flawless.
There are amusing, sometimes surprising, anecdotes about the pressured, micro-managed, obsessional world of politics.
As she observes, obsessional interests and repetitive behaviours would allow someone to practice, albeit inadvertently, whichever skill they were obsessed by. Malcolm Gladwell, in a book called "Outliers" which collated research done on outstanding people, suggested that anyone could become an expert in anything by practising for 10,000 hours.
