Thinking Too Much Quotes - Page 2

• Misery is almost always the result of thinking.

  Joseph Joubert

  Love, Happiness, Happy

  Joseph Joubert (1928). “Pensées and letters of Joseph Joubert”

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• Without thinking too much about it in specific terms, I was showing the America I knew and observed to others who might not have noticed. My fundamental purpose is to interpret the typical American. I am a story teller.

  Norman Rockwell

  Thinking, America, Typical

  "Fodor's New England". Book by Debbie Harmsen, p. 194, 2008.

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• 'Sparkle' fell into my lap. I had heard a little bit about it, that it was being redone in early 2011. I was just kind of like, 'Oh, that would be really cool,' and not really thinking too much about it, and then it came through my agency. I read it, I fell in love with the script and I went in to audition.

  Jordin Sparks

  Thinking, Agency, Would Be

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• I think I'm a bit less inhibited, and not thinking too much before speaking. It's not about being shameful, I'm just a bit more unabashedly myself because of this thing, and it probably started at age 15. I can be around people and say what I think without fear.

  Kristen Stewart

  Birthday, Thinking, People

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• Yeah, I play a lot of point guard. LeBron plays a lot of point guard. A lot of people are thinking too much on positions.

  Dwyane Wade

  Thinking, Play, People

  Interview with Trey Kerby, sports.yahoo.com. September 14, 2010.

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• The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge; but not fussily, not very anxiously. On no account to retaliate by going to the other extreme -- thinking too much.

  Virginia Woolf

  Thinking, Important, Too Much

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.4424, Delphi Classics

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• I was frequently told at drama school that I was thinking too much.

  Natalie Dormer

  Drama, School, Thinking

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• Sometimes thinking too much can destroy your momentum.

  Tom Watson

  Motivational, Thinking, Momentum

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• One critic in the L.A. Times said John Kerry looks like he is thinking too much. Well this is one place President Bush has him beat.

  Jay Leno

  Thinking, President, Looks

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• When you're playing poorly, you start thinking too much. That's when you confuse yourself.

  Greg Norman

  Thinking, Too Much

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• I stopped thinking too much about what could happen and relied on my physical and mental strength to play the right shots at the right time.

  Novak Djokovic

  Thinking, Play, Too Much

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• Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

  Albert Einstein

  Fall, Reading, Creativity

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.175, Princeton University Press

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• Sometime, when you start thinking too much what an audience is going to think, when you're too self-conscious about it, you make mistakes.

  Christopher Nolan

  Mistake, Thinking, Self

  Christopher Nolan, Jonah Nolan (2010). “Inception: The Shooting Script”, p.14, Insight Editions

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• Instead of growing old gracefully, at home with my family - reading and writing and praying and thinking - too much of my time has been spent at airports and in hotels.

  Desmond Tutu

  Reading, Home, Writing

  "Archbishop Desmond Tutu announces retirement from public life" by Xan Rice, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2010.

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• Thinking too little about things or thinking too much both make us obstinate and fanatical.

  Blaise Pascal

  Thinking, Littles, Too Much

  Blaise Pascal (2008). “Human Happiness”, Penguin Group USA

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• I think the more that I can find myself getting out of the way - like you said yourself - trying to get out of thinking too much, and sometimes something truly special can happen. That's the beautiful mystery of song writing - that you really don't know where these songs come from exactly, and you don't know how you came up with them - and god bless it that you should have the gift of channeling that.

  Kimbra

  Beautiful, Song, Writing

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Irritability is immaturity of character. If you are subject to being cross and unpleasant with others for no apparent reason, you need to come face-to-face with the fact that you are thinking too much of yourself. After all, your feelings are not the most important thing in this world.

  Lawrence G. Lovasik

  Character, Thinking, Feelings

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• It’s how I fill the time when nothing’s happening. Thinking too much, flirting with melancholy.

  Tim Winton

  Flirting, Thinking, Too Much

  Tim Winton (2009). “Breath”, p.244, Pan Macmillan

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