Thinking Too Much Quotes

• I'm a morning "spinner." That's usually when my brain is thinking too much and I don't necessarily see things positively. So I sit myself down and remember that I'm making it up.

  Dash Mihok

  Morning, Thinking, Brain

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Inspirational, Thinking Of You, Time

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• If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Motivational, Time

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.43, Tuttle Publishing

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• If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier.

  Sylvia Plath

  Happiness, Happy, Thinking

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.15, Anchor

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• The "18/40/60" rule to happiness:
  At age 18, people care very much about what others think of them.
  By age 40, they learn not to worry what others think.
  By age 60, they figure out that no one was thinking about them in the first place.

  Daniel Amen

  Happiness, Caring, Thinking

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• My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.

  Sylvia Plath

  Mother, Thinking, Too Much

  Sylvia Plath (2008). “The Bell Jar”, p.120, Faber & Faber

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• Live simply and without thinking too much, like a child with his father. Faith without too much thinking works wonders. The logical mind hinders the Grace of God and miracles. Practice patience without judging with the logical mind.

  Elder Paisios of Mount Athos

  Children, Father, Thinking

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• You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• If you want to get over a problem, stop talking about it. Your mind affects your mouth and your mouth affects your mind. It's difficult to stop talking about a situation until you stop thinking about it.

  Joyce Meyer

  Thinking, Talking, Mind

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• The best way to deal with excessive thinking is to just listen to it, to listen to the mind. Listening is much more effective than trying to stop thought or cut it off.

  Ajahn Amaro

  Buddhist, Cutting, Thinking

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

  Don Johnson

  Thinking, Directors, Too Much

  "Rascal". Interview with Tad Friend, www.newyorker.com. June 23, 2014.

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• Thinkers are not a welcome addition to most social situations.

  Terence McKenna

  Thinking, Welcome, Social

  Interview with Tom Hodgkinson (1993) as quoted in Tom Hodgkinson "How to be idle", 2004.

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• Humility does not mean to think yourself less, but to less think of yourself.

  Bhakti Tirtha Swami

  Humble, Mean, Humility

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• If your judgement is clouded, you must be carrying too many things which are being a burden to you.

  Yoko Ono

  Judgement, Burden, Clouded

  Twitter post from Oct 25, 2015

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• You are still young, free.. Do yourself a favor. Before it's too late, without thinking too much about it first, pack a pillow and a blanket and see as much of the world as you can. You will not regret it. One day it will be too late.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Motivational, Inspiring, Travel

  FaceBook post by Jhumpa Lahiri from Jul 23, 2012

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• You can't improvise if you are tense. Or thinking too much. You have to really let it go.

  Joy Bryant

  Thinking, Let It Go, Too Much

  "EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Joy Bryant Survives Being the Villainess of Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins!" by B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. February 05, 2008.

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• Let's not go and ruin it by thinking too much.

  Clint Eastwood

  Thinking, Too Much, Ruins

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• Work helps. So does exercise. Stuff that numbs you, keeps you from thinking too much.

  Olivia

  Exercise, Thinking, Doe

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• Embarrassment has a lot to do with thinking too much. Let it go. Nobody cares as much as you think they do.

  Ryan Robbins

  Thinking, Let It Go, Care

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• Choking is about thinking too much. Panic is about thinking too little. Choking is about loss of instinct. Panic is reversion to instinct. They may look the same, but they are worlds apart.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Loss, Thinking, Looks

  "The Art of Failure" by Malcolm Gladwell, www.newyorker.com. August 21, 2000.

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  The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

  Terry Pratchett

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

  Terry Pratchett (2010). “Diggers: The Second Book of the Nomes”, p.34, Random House

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• If I started thinking too much about how influential I've been, then I'd be more of a turd than I already am.

  Iggy Pop

  Thinking, Too Much, Influential

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• I'm a morning "spinner." That's usually when my brain is thinking too much and I don't necessarily see things positively. So I sit myself down and remember that I'm making it up. I believe we are creating in every moment - making up our reality, so to speak - so when anything gets chaotic or I feel spun out, I remind myself that everything is an interpretation. I can look at it differently and make it work for me in a more positive light.

  Dash Mihok

  Morning, Believe, Reality

  "Dash Mihok Interview: Maranda Pleasant". www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The tradition of Italian cooking is that of the matriarch. This is the cooking of grandma. She didn't waste time thinking too much about the celery. She got the best celery she could and then she dealt with it.

  Mario Batali

  Food, Grandma, Italian

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• As I see it, the thing that hurt my putting most when it was bad, was thinking too much about how I was making the stroke and not enough about getting the ball in the hole.

  Bobby Jones

  Hurt, Thinking, Balls

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