Thinking Too Much Quotes

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

Thinkers are not a welcome addition to most social situations.

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

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

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.

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

Sometimes thinking too much can destroy your momentum.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Misery is almost always the result of thinking.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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'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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

'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.

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

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

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

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

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.