Quotes About Overthinking

It's no big thing, but you make big things out of little things sometimes.

He suffered from paralysis by analysis.

Montaigne said something that rings true for many of us: "My life has been full of terrible misfortunes, most of which never happened.

Maybe I don't have enough to do. Maybe I have time to think too much. Why don't we shut the whole house off for a few days and take a vacation?

To worry means to strangle.

They say certain people aren't good soldiers because if they're in a foxhole all night—you know, if you're creative and smart, you're thinking about all the different ways someone is going to blow your head off. But if you're not that smart, you're just like chilling out. And I feel like that in life. I'm just in the foxhole all fucking day thinking about everything that's going to go wrong in every possible way.

sixteenth-century French philosopher Michel de Montaigne. He once quipped, "My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.

There are many talented people who haven't fulfilled their dreams because they over thought it, or they were too cautious, and were unwilling to make the leap of faith.

It was because I thought too much, lived too much in the mind.

That's where all the trouble in life comes from. Thinking.

I couldn't sleep for nights on end, as my brain felt like there were thoughts colliding within it; I obsessed over small details, from saving pennies and polishing each one of them to washing my clothing over and over in the washing machine.

We started to overthink things in the Dixie Chicks and do things we thought people wanted us to do.

I was frequently told at drama school that I was thinking too much. And I still have to suppress that part of me because it can sometimes be a hindrance.

I raised the ratio of things I thought to things I said from three to one, to four to one, to five, to six, to seven. I still thought as much as ever, and sometimes I imagined the responses I would have gotten if I had spoken up and what I would have then said next, and so on and so on. Without the release of talking, these thoughts crowded my brain. The inside of my head turned clamorous and outlandish, like the Mos Eisley spaceport bar in Star Wars.

I admire the linear and decisive way a certain kind of man thinks, to my curlicue boundless overthinking.

If your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything.

Sometimes thinking too much can destroy your momentum.

The very nature of cool is that you think about it too much and it becomes uncool.

I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.

Ik denk te veel. Het interesseert niemand. Mijn gedachten zitten in mij als sardines in een blik. Een blik waarop een verkeerd etiket is geplakt zodat niemand de inhoud kan raden.

The trouble with me is I think too much. I always said you have to be dumb to play good golf.

I think and think and think, I've thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.

Talking about a problem sometimes makes it worse.

Most people who play golf have one big trouble: they think too much. To get any real mileage out of this game you've got to sit on your imagination.