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

  Clint Eastwood

  Thinking, Too Much, Ruins

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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