Top 41 Over Intellectualize Quotes
#1. I do not over-intellectualize the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.
Tom Clancy
#2. I don't like to over-intellectualize scenes that are working. I tend to think when you do that you may lose it.
Antonio Banderas
#3. The most dangerous thing about an academic education is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize stuff, to get lost in abstract thinking instead of simply paying attention to what's going on in front of me.
David Foster Wallace
#4. I hate people who over intellectualize. It bores me deeply.
Carine Roitfeld
#5. I think a lot of the inspirations for me are very instinctual and subconscious. I don't over intellectualize stuff much. It's a very instinctual thing.
Neill Blomkamp
#6. I do look at songwriting as a lot of work. I don't over-intellectualize music as a special medium that only some people deserve to do. I think it's something you do if you put the work in.
Jakob Dylan
#7. You cannot intellectualize yourself out of obsession. You cannot cure yourself of it.
Nicolas Roeg
#8. Acting is kind of difficult to intellectualize - it's a far more visceral experience. It's really hard to be able to think about and then employ these kind of esoteric notions of this person's backstory and try to weave it in somehow. It's just kind of impossible.
Jesse Eisenberg
#9. I'm not one to intellectualize why I did something.
Spike Jonze
#10. People need meanings to everything. People want you to intellectualize every choice you make.
Juliana Hatfield
#11. There are few things I hate more than feeling weak. Needing help or failing top the list. The worst, however, is knowing that all three just happened.
Christine Fonseca
#12. As artists, we must not go down to the level of the masa; we should bring them up, intellectualize our languages, create classics out of our folk arts. We can do this if we are true to our roots and strive for excellence.
F. Sionil Jose
#13. The propensity to intellectualize is itself both essential and dangerous. I think in our modern world we are much more aware of its essential character than of its dangers, and that is why I think of it as being an expression of transcendence.
Talal Asad
#14. I see myself only sporadically as a teacher and consistently as a writer. Teaching is how I pay the bills ... and fortunately, for my students, I can intellectualize about writing, and I can talk about it well, and I like to talk about it.
Vijay Seshadri
#15. I try and intellectualize a lot, which she does as well obviously. She's very determined, I am as well. I like to think that I am very loyal in the same way that she is. Bit of a feminist in the same way that she is. I will speak my mind in the same way that she does.
Emma Watson
#16. I know Bret Easton Ellis has said he has some amount of empathy for every character he has written about, though, so maybe I am similar to him in terms of that. I'm not sure what he thinks exactly.
Tao Lin
#17. Everything I do is just really my intuition, and every time I go against my intuition, it's a mistake. Even though I may sit down and analyze and intellectualize something on paper, if I go against my gut feeling, it's wrong.
Tamara Mellon
#18. The critics try to intellectualize my material. There's no satire involved. Satire is a concept that can only be understood by adults. My stuff is straight, for people of all ages.
Andy Kaufman
#20. I don't try to intellectualize characters too much. But I always think of the audience. I always make sure that my characters are likeable.
Paula Patton
#21. I love radical theorists. But at the same time, I don't agree with them a lot, but I love their theories. I love how they intellectualize rage, and this inner battle that such a tiny percent of people really care about. I find that the most interesting.
John Waters
#22. Sometimes in life it is a good idea to stop,sometimes it is a good idea to go on. The trick is to decide when to stop
Richard Dawkins
#23. Sounded to me like he had a pretty good idea what he was saying," Van replied, with surprisingly little anger. "It's a pity he had to overintellectualize like that. He did such good work, and then he had to go and intellectualize it.
Jonathan Franzen
#24. You want to go down in flames, I guess that's your call, but I'm not going to watch you burn.
Jay Crownover
#25. I think it is important to pass on the message to young people who are going through a difficult time with friends that it will pass.
Clemence Poesy
#26. I don't like to intellectualize about my acting. I don't sit around and study the pages of a script over and over again.
Genevieve Bujold
#27. The trouble with a lot of people who try to write is they intellectualize about it. That comes after. The intellect is given to us by God to test things once they're done, not to worry about things ahead of time.
Ray Bradbury
#28. Any political situation has many sides. We intellectualize the whole situation any way. We make our intellectual decisions based on our cultural background and how we live.
Richard Gere
#29. My work is my language and I don't discuss it very easily. It's difficult for me to verbalize my feelings, or to intellectualize my work. In fact, it used to annoy me when Ansel Adams and Paul Strand yak-yak-yakked about what photography meant, and I told them so.
Brett Weston
#30. You cannot intellectualize God, you cannot, He is beyond your intellect, you cannot understand Him through your intellect. If you have to understand Him you have to become the spirit.
Nirmala Srivastava
#31. If you are stymied as a writer, if it's just not coming together, then take the pressure off and don't feel that you need to write 1,000 words today; just write one really good sentence.
Chris Bohjalian
#32. You cannot intellectualize the Divine. You have to experience it on your central nervous system.
Nirmala Srivastava
#33. Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable, however much we may despise the flatterer.
Bill Vaughan
#34. Feminism freed my mind. Yoga freed my body. It's one thing to intellectualize self-love and another to embody it.
Melanie Klein
#36. Don't let people interfere with you. Boot 'em out, turn off the phone, hide away, get it done. If you carry a short story over to the next day you may overnight intellectualize something about it and try to make it too fancy, try to please someone.
Ray Bradbury
#38. We should make decisions in life with our hearts, not our brains, not only in music but in daily life.
Andre Rieu
#39. I know the families that I photograph extremely well, and I've known them for a very long time.
Jock Sturges
#40. As soon as you see something, you already start to intellectualize it. As soon as you intellectualize something, it is no longer what you saw.
Shunryu Suzuki
#41. That's the glory of it; thousands of years have passed and yet you can follow Him so close!
Anne Rice
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