Quotes About Overthinking

There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.'

My coach at UConn, Geno Auriemma, taught me to take more risks, because in basketball, if you overthink things, the moment will pass you by. That's good advice for life off the court, too.

Everyone finds their little ways of getting past bad moments and everyone has them, it's football. We get the good moments and we get stick. You can start overthinking, it's human, everyone does it.

I suffer from anxiety, moments of depression. I'm in my head so much, and I'm thinking so much, I'm playing a tug-of-war within my mind.

I have a really hard time falling asleep. I have a lot of thoughts running through my head.

Just FYI," I told Phin, "he was flirting with you." She looked at me, then at Mark's departing form. "Oh. That explains a lot. I'm good at a lot of things, but flirting isn't one of them. Especially with someone I find extremely attractive." "Here's a tip... Don't overthink it. It's more of an instinct than an intellect thing." "Right," she said. "Pheromones." With a sage nod, she followed Mark.

for many people, the more they think, the more incapable they become of smiling!

This is the problem about thinking about something else to take your mind off something. It works for a little while, but in the end you always come back to the thing you were trying not to think about, only now whatever it was is worse.

You think too much,' said Ellis.

I am positive that in the vast majority of cases we are hammering nails with microscopes.

The reason people have problems is that they have too much time to think.

So my idea of neurotic is spending too much time trying to correct a wrong. When I feel that I'm doing that, then I snap out of it.

If you worry about every 'what if' that might befall you, your fears will paralyze you.

Worrying about where to begin puts you in a fair way to waste your life worrying, without getting noticeably closer to beginning.

For most of my life, I was a worrier and an over-thinker. I had pretty bad social anxiety.

Most of the things I worried about in life never happened.

Sometimes people can be too intellegent for their own good. Too much thinking could confuse things.

People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.

Uno de los mecanismos psíquicos que más transforman la ansiedad vital en una ansiedad asfixiante es la hiperconstrucción de pensamientos. Quien tiene una mente agitada, quien es una máquina de informarse y de pensar, sobrepasa los límites saludables de movimiento psíquico y desarrollará el Síndrome del Pensamiento Acelerado.

The good Lord gave me a brain that works so fast that in one moment I can worry as much as it would take others a whole year to achieve.

You have to play offense and defense without thinking, and react like you know what to do, but if you're thinking of where to be and 1,000 other things you can lose focus. You're trying to play hard, but you're overthinking.

I would say I'm too guilty of dwelling on things too long.

When I try to be funny, it always makes me more nervous that I'm trying too hard, and then my brain that already thinks too much jumps into hyper drive, and I light-speed start talking 'Star Trek' to someone who's talking 'Star Wars.' Anyway, it doesn't work out usually when I 'try' to be funny.

Worriers spend a lot of time shoveling smoke.