Overthinking Quotes

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  We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Life, Thinking, Dying Slowly

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• Stop thinking, and end your problems.

  Laozi

  Thinking, Tao Te Ching, Taoism

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• Overthinking is often a product of underdoing.

  Yehuda Berg

  Action, Products, Taking Action

  Twitter post from Aug 16, 2016

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• The head thinks. The heart knows.

  Rasheed Ogunlaru

  Heart, Thinking, Knows

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• The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Lying, Independent, Thinking

  Christopher Hitchens (2009). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, p.3, Basic Books

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• You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.

  Tina Fey

  Strong Women, Witty, Funny Inspirational

  "Bossypants". Book by Tina Fey, April 5, 2011.

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• If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?

  Warren Ellis

  Believe, Responsibility, Thinking

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• The main things to rebel against - over-production, too much technology, overthinking. It's a spoiled mentality; everything is too easy. If you want to record a song, you can buy Pro Tools and record four hundred guitar tracks. That leads to overthinking, which kills any spontaneity and the humanity of the performance.

  Jack White

  Song, Technology, Guitar

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Thinking is a bit uncomfortable, but you'll get used to it. A matter of time and practice.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Inspirational, Time, Thinking

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• You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are of any value.

  Hermann Hesse

  Thinking, Ideas, Values

  Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse (1971). “Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse”

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• There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [259]

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• I think I have a tendency to overwork things. I have a hard time finding that sweet spot that most actors seem to be able to hit where they're doing the exact right amount of work, not overthinking, not underdoing it. I seem to either overdo it or underdo it.

  Paul Giamatti

  Sweet, Hard Times, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• He never complicates a desire by overthinking it, unlike Mirabelle, who spins a cocoon around an idea until it is immobile.

  Steve Martin

  Ideas, Desire, Cocoons

  Steve Martin (2001). “Shopgirl”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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

  J. Courtney Sullivan

  Men, Thinking, Way

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• Sometimes you're overthinking, you convince yourself to get out of it and you're like, "Ah I shoulda did that!" You can't live life with regrets. Sometimes you just gotta indulge. But in the same breath, you gotta have restraint and self-control too.

  Michael B. Jordan

  Regret, Live Life, Self

  Source: thesource.com

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• I really can't watch myself. I just get too in my head about it and start overthinking everything.

  Eden Sher

  Starting Over, Watches

  Source: www.etonline.com

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• You have to try your hardest to be at the top of your game and improve every joke you can until the last possible second, and then you have to let it go.

  Tina Fey

  Games, Let It Go, Trying

  Tina Fey (2011). “Bossypants”, p.75, Hachette UK

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• The sensible part of me wanted to dissect my emotions, overthinking and overcomplicating my reaction to Jev.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Emotion, Reactions, Sensible

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2011). “Silence”, p.185, Simon and Schuster

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• Once you start overthinking it, it's like it ain't a feeling no more.

  Dreezy

  Starting Over, Feelings

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• The British vice is overthinking before we speak, which is really annoying. I love the way that, in America, people are more straightforward.

  Felicity Jones

  America, People, Vices

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• There is something to the fact that when you're on stage or when you're playing someone else, you're able to transmute all the things inside you that maybe get a bit blocked by the wall of shyness, or the wall of anxiety, or [by] overthinking. They sort of fall away in that moment and channeled into something else.

  Emma Stone

  Wall, Fall, Anxiety

  "Extended transcript: Emma Stone". www.cbsnews.com. February 12, 2017.

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• I feel like I've got this anti-marriage thing, but it's less that and more I'm overthinking it to get it right.

  David Spade

  Feels

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• It's a great lesson about not being too precious about your writing. You have to try your hardest to be at the top of your game and improve every joke you can until the last possible second, and then you have to let it go. You can't be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it...You have to let people see what you wrote.

  Tina Fey

  Funny Motivational, Writing, Kids

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• You look confused," said Adrian. I shook my head and sighed. "I think I'm just overthinking things." He nodded solemnly. "That's why I try to never do it.

  Richelle Mead

  Confused, Thinking, Trying

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Bloodlines”, p.141, Penguin

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