Over Thinking Quotes

But he wasn't really thinking properly. It was as if the thoughts were chasing each other round and round his head without managing to catch up with each other. ~ Isabel Hoving

I believe in not over thinking things too much. When the right thing comes along, you really don't have a choice. ~ Jason Schwartzman

I'm a great believer in not over-thinking lyrics. You might become technically better as a songwriter, but you lose what originally made your songs great. ~ Paul Stanley

I hope it's that she simply doesn't figure large enough in his life to be worth mentioning, Vita thought.
And then she thought, if that was the case. It was therefore rather pathetic that Suzie loomed larger for her than for Tim, that Suzie was in some ways a more real presence in her life than in his. What she thought it boiled down to was that she really didn't want the woman he left her for to be the true, profound love of his life.
I auditioned for that role. I put so much effort into it, I loved it. I'm not ready to let it go to someone else.
But you keep forgetting he didn't leave you, Vita - you left him.
And then she thought, is this a slewed version of Aesop's dog in the manger? I don't want him - but I don't want him wanting anyone else?
And then she thought, For God's sake, shut up! This is doing me no good at all. All this thinking and wondering that I do isn't going to change him or the past. What a waste of quarter of an hour - sifting through all that emotional JUNK. She knew there was nothing of value in it- she'd been through it with a fine toothcomb over and again. ~ Freya North

Let's loosen up some time and take a break to re-calibrate our life. We need no endless over-thinking, though. Let's just connect the dots, set the scene, and steam ahead. ("On a casual day without a tie") ~ Erik Pevernagie

My eyes are glued to the television, watching intently for my message from Will, and sure enough, right before they go to commercial, he's on the screen. His hair is wet with sweat and plastered to his forehead, face is dirty, and he's breathing hard from exertion, but he grins at the camera and taps his nose with his forefinger, then points to the camera and mouths, "miss you."
Well, shit, he's sweet... Without over-thinking it, I pull my phone out and text him.
"Miss you,too,football star. ~ Kristen Proby

If I'm doing some weird tick with my mouth, or not standing still or something, I'll be the first person to notice it, and then want to change that. I think it's important just to maintain trajectory, to not just use your same tricks over and over. ~ Neil Patrick Harris

Since his mother died I have seen him steam a cucumber thinking it was zucchini. That's the kind of thing that turns my heart right over. ~ Amy Hempel

Don't get too deep, it leads to over thinking, and over thinking leads to problems that doesn't even exist in the first place. ~ Jayson Engay

Over-thinking in your brain is anathema to the process of thinking on your feet. ~ Conan O'Brien

I'm tired of being inside my head. I want to live out here, with you. ~ Colleen McCarty

I think it's important to evolve and grow and take risks creatively, instead of repeating yourself and doing the same thing over and over. ~ G-Eazy

I think it's a lot harder when you're opening. You really have to win people over. ~ Simon Taylor-Davis

Words, one may argue, are such a drag, useless - don't think it too much, just do it. And no - I agree - over-thinking is a curse, but it is without words when I over-think, when I over-burn neurons. With words, things find their place. I've said this to myself a million times. ~ Lange Weile

It's dangerous business, thinking you can make people over. ~ Lenora Mattingly Weber

Yes and no are soon said, but give much to think over. ~ Baltasar Gracian

I read Ivan's messages over and over, thinking about what they meant. I felt ashamed, but why? Why was it more honorable to reread and interpret a novel like Lost Illusions than to reread and interpret some email from Ivan? Was it because Ivan wasn't as good a writer as Balzac? (But I thought Ivan was a good writer.) Was it because Balzac's novels had been read and analyzed by hundreds of professors, so that reading and interpreting Balzac was like participating in a conversation with all these professors, and was therefore a higher and more meaningful activity than reading an email only I could see? But the fact that the email had been written specifically to me, in response to things I had said, made it literally a conversation, in the way that Balzac's novels - written for a general audience, ultimately in order to turn a profit for the printing industry - were not; and so wasn't what I was doing in a way more authentic, and more human? ~ Elif Batuman

I think America, really, is over. ~ James Purdy

It's easy to start over-thinking things and over-analysing things. ~ Andy Murray

I love creating characters that are ridiculous and flawed. To me, the most important thing about comedy is the joy it can bring to the performers and the audience alike. I love making people laugh and not over-thinking things. Some of my favorite moments are when I am doing an improv scene with friends, and I can't stop laughing during it. ~ Lauren Lapkus

A lot of people think they'll be earning money like they are now for the rest of their lives. I think once you have that type of mindset, it's over. ~ Lee Joon

Over thinking ruins you n ruins your situations twists things around you n make u much worry than just makes everything much worsts than actually it is.... ~ Jittu Nanda

I have the idea that lyric poetry is a poetry that's driven by a sense of the presence of death. That there's something unbearable about the fact that we're going to die and that we can't stand it and I think you find that out in childhood and you don't really - at least I found it out in childhood and I found it hard to get over. ~ Edward Hirsch

Too often, people get stuck in a state of over-thinking, the result is that they never reach a decision. ~ Steve Backley

Sometimes great things come from doing things quickly and not over-thinking stuff. ~ Jamie Bell

Ana, honey, you've always had a tendency to overanalyse everything. Go with your gut. ~ E.L. James

Don't overthink things. Sometimes you can convince your head not to listen to your heart. Those are the decisions you regret for the rest of your life. Faith Barnett From Texas Tangle ~ Leah Braemel

Setbacks happen in life. Though we may not be able to stop them, we may choose whether to get affected by them! We must move on from a state of over thinking about our setbacks to a state of achieving calm when happiness, peace, and tranquility can be achieved! ~ Avijeet Das

I'm getting more and more isolated as I get on in years. I think people's insanity starts to slowly take over. ~ Jim Shaw

You can't be trying to be funny. As an adult actor, sometimes I'll muddle it up by over-thinking things. ~ David Walton

Stop over-thinking, put more energy on what you really want to do. ~ Amit Ray

Saving a worthy relationship is easier than trying to start a new one. ~ Dennis E. Adonis

One day, everyone stopped over-thinking. We started thinking just as much as we should, and not any more than necessary. There was no more misunderstandings whatsoever. Minor disagreements were forgotten, not turned into proof of larger things. Trivial errors of speech or judgement were just as important as items on the breakfast menu: you chose waffles and I chose eggs and it was a god damn miracle. ~ Amelia Gray

Things not to say to someone with mental illness: Ignore it. Forget about it. Fight it. You are better than this. You are over thinking. ~ Nitya Prakash

One of the things that happens to careers out here is that people destroy themselves because they begin to think they're wonderful. They begin to think they know what they're doing, and the minute that happens, it's over. ~ William Goldman

I know, I know, I'm being a girl. ~ Gillian Flynn

Over-thinking, a devouring monster,
entice, only the inky reflections;
there's a pleasure you come by,
from this anomalous encounter;
kills your desire, for human affection. ~ Kashish Gurung

The freeway experience ... is the only secular communion Los Angeles has. Mere driving on the freeway is in no way the same as participating in it. Anyone can "drive" on the freeway, and many people with no vocation for it do, hesitating here and resisting there, losing the rhythm of the lane change, thinking about where they came from and where they are going. Actual participation requires total surrender, a concentration so intense as to seem a kind of narcosis, a rapture-of-the-freeway. The mind goes clean. The rhythm takes over. ~ Joan Didion

Sometimes it's easier to gain traction once you slow the spinning wheels. ~ Curtis Tyrone Jones

It's important to be smart, but it's also important to be active with your intelligence. The more you sit around over-thinking things, the more trouble you get into. ~ Alisa Valdes

Scared? Pray.
Over thinking? Pray.
Losing hope? Pray.
Worried? Pray.
Struggling? Pray.

Pray and trust in Allah! ~ Abu Ameenah Bilal Philips

I think if you ask the audience to like you, it's all over. ~ Rachel Weisz

I think people don't understand how intimately tied suicide is to mental illness, particularly to depressive illness and bipolar illness. ~ Kay Redfield Jamison

I think I got really lucky with Slacker. That was a film that probably shouldn't have been seen. ~ Richard Linklater

Make sure you pay attention to what's right with your life, not just what's wrong. ~ Norman Vincent Peale

That's what I think we're all looking for - an honest love wherever you can find it. ~ Piper Perabo

Right now I think I'm the smartest I've ever been. I'm doing everything great now and everything perfect. Like with this taxes stuff. I'm getting better at that. I'm making sure everything is a write-off. Every single thing. ~ Kendra Wilkinson

I think honesty is the ultimate liberation in life. People want to shy away from the truth and keep sweeping it under the rug. But after a while, you pick up the rug and there's just way too much dirt, so you might as well
just be up front about it. ~ Rihanna

If you think you can do it, your body will find a way to make it happen. ~ Greg Plitt

Dreams are epitome of life. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am the comedy version of ambidextrous. I'm working with my left and right hand. I'm the two-sided coin. I'm all of those metaphors you can think of. I'm the interracial couple. I'm BET and CBS. ~ J. B. Smoove

We are less justified in saying that the thinking life of humanity is a miraculous perfectioning of animal and physical life than that it is an imperfection in the organization of spiritual life as rudimentary as the communal existence of protozoa in colonies. ~ Marcel Proust

Let the Seventy-forth Hunger Games begin, Cato, I think. Let them begin for real. ~ Suzanne Collins

I didn't grow up as a religious person under any sort of system or anything like that, I just felt like I've always been sort of intrigued by that - how it can make people's lives better - I mean, it's a powerful thing. So I was interested in thinking about that kind of stuff. ~ Panda Bear

What really got me thinking about illustrating children's books was I discovered Hugh Thompson's illustrations for The Vicar of Wakefield in my mother's library and I looked at it and said, 'That's what I'm going to do. ~ Tasha Tudor

It is human nature to look away from illness. We don't enjoy a reminder of our own fragile mortality. That's why writing on the Internet has become a life-saver for me. My ability to think and write have not been affected. And on the Web, my real voice finds expression. ~ Roger Ebert

Food became for me a way of becoming self-sufficient with my hands, to regain manual literacy, which I think has been lost on our generation and certainly younger generations. Very few people can actually make things with their hands and do things with their hands. ~ Timothy Ferriss

Such nice people, the Hillingdons, though she's not really very easy to know, is she? I mean, she's always very pleasant and all that, but one never seems to get to know her better.'

Miss Marple agreed thoughtfully.

'One never knows what she is thinking.'
'Perhaps that is just as well.'
'I beg your pardon?'
'Oh nothing really, only that I've always had the feeling that perhaps her thoughts might be rather disconcerting. ~ Agatha Christie

Many women hear the word "feminine" and feel like it's a noose around their neck. "Don't hold me to a mode of behavior because I'm a woman and you think this is how a woman should act," kind of thing. ~ Elizabeth Lesser

I think that there are a lot of law enforcement officers out there who work according to their own set of what is right and what is wrong. And that doesn't always include respect for administration cops, you know, people that are higher up the food chain. ~ Bruce Willis

If you think your job requires you to endanger people, get another job. ~ Robert James Thomson

And the greatest adventure is not going to the moon - the greatest adventure is going to your own innermost core. ~ Osho

I think that photography has allowed me to have a voice. I used to stutter, and once I overcame that struggle, it felt good to tell people they were beautiful and special. ~ Jamel Shabazz

I wouldn't want to get stuck being an oldie-goldie group, but I don't mind. I think all the trouble you go through these days to go to one of these concerts, I think I owe them a bit of what they came to hear. ~ Tom Petty

I think the publishing industry is dismayingly like the movie business. It grows more corporate by the day. ~ Matthew Specktor

I think sexuality is a window into someone's soul. ~ Alan Ball

There has been little or no mention of the vast body of law which contradicts your position. I think you owe it to the people whom you address to explain its existence. ~ Frankie Sue Del Papa

I ask you only to stop imagining that you were born, have parents, are a body, will die and so on. Just try, make a beginning-it is not as hard as you think. ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

I think my dad was happy. I phrase it like this because he seldom showed much emotion. Hugs and kisses wwere a rarity for me growing up, and when they did happen, they often struck me as lifeless, something he did because he felt he was supposed to, not because he wanted to. ~ Nicholas Sparks

That's a very nice, generic-sounding question: "When did you know you were funny?" But it pre-supposes that I think I'm really hilarious. So that's kind of a loaded question. ~ Rob Huebel

Disagree with someone on the right and he is likely to think you obtuse, wrong, foolish, a dope. Disagree with someone on the left, and he is more likely to think you selfish, a sell-out, insensitive, possibly evil. ~ J.R. Miller

You have to listen to the movie while you're making it. I think that's important. ~ Gary Ross