Overthinking Quotes

"We psych ourselves up too much. Like if you try to talk yourself into, ‘Oh, this is a big moment, this is a big shot,’ you’re putting a lot of pressure on yourself. You shot that shot hundreds and thousands of times. Just shoot another one." "I tend to overthink things and that makes me do complicated stuff" "We think too much and feel too little" "You can't be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute" "The fear is simply because you are not living with life, you are living in your mind." "I don't want to let my guard down and feel too comfortable." "Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble." "When I get logical, and I don't trust my instincts - that's when I get in trouble." "Too much of our lives takes place in the head, in memory or imagination, in speculation, in projection, in abstraction." "A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears" "Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity." "He suffers more than necessary, who suffers before it is necessary" "A child has no trouble believing the unbelievable, nor does the genius or the madman. It’s only you and I, with our big brains and our tiny hearts, who doubt and overthink and hesitate." "All of my thoughts are second thoughts" "Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear" "Thinking is the enemy of creativity." "The trouble with worrying is that it always seems senseless after the event is over" "The reason I don’t spend much time planning or worrying is because it's like trying to kill a fly with a sledgehammer." "My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened" "Most of one’s life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking"