Top 42 When You Overthink Quotes
#1. Analysis paralysis occurs when you overthink and underwork.
Orrin Woodward
#2. Each song had a different way of coming about. In some, the music was written first while others it was the lyrics. We didn't want to overthink anything too much - we just wanted to, writing-wise, chuck out as many ideas as possible.
Elena Tonra
#3. It's okay to be happy. You are allowed to be happy, for you to ask for what you want, to demand what you want from your life. It's okay for you to be there with sexy thing one and two. You deserve whatever you want, and if you want them, and they want you, that's okay. Don't overthink it.
Amelia LeFay
#4. Here's what I love about dogs. They aren't careful not to disturb you. They don't overthink. They jump on the bed or the sofa or the chair and plop down. They come and they go. I'm not sure they love me exactly, but they count on me because I am a source of heat and food and pleasure and affection.
Abigail Thomas
#5. Twitter is my happy place. I am not there to overthink 140 characters.
Roxane Gay
#6. I like things matching. I have an upright bass, a drum kit and a grand piano that's the same color. I tend to overthink things.
Penn Jillette
#7. I have a tendency to overthink things, especially when it comes to my friends, and I don't know ... I take things too personally. I mean, it isn't always them . Sometimes it's me. I just don't always know when it's them and when it's me, you know?
Tamara Ireland Stone
#8. I think it's always interesting how music means different things to different people, and people who overthink it are looking to in some ways show off with music, versus people who just respond to a song and decide to sing it.
Noah Baumbach
#9. You can't overthink the music. Mood and intensity can't be manufactured. The blues isn't about structure; it's what you bring to it. The spontaneity of capturing a specific moment is what drives it.
Jimmy Page
#10. Throughout this book I will use the terms African-American, black, and Negro interchangeably. There is rarely a logic to it, so please try not to overthink it.
Baratunde R. Thurston
#11. What I've learned about acting is that it needs to be mysterious. If you overthink how a beat needs to be played, it can trip you up.
Kate Winslet
#12. And the only way to find that honesty is to not overthink it.
For your writing to come alive
to be multi-dimensional
you must barter away some control.
Elizabeth Sims
#13. This is probably the advantage of being stupid. Stupid people just do. We tend to overthink. If we could eliminate the "over" and just think, then we could do, too. Only we'd be smarter doers because we'd be thinkers.
Sarah Strohmeyer
#14. Humans have a tendency to overcomplicate simple things because we overthink them. But if you take a step back and remember your priorities, it becomes easier to make a decision. When
Lilly Singh
#15. The downside of being a writer is you get plenty of time to overthink your life.
Donald Miller
#16. It's way easier to write for other people. Yourself isn't in it. When you write for yourself, you overthink, and you become paranoid. When you write for others, it isn't about you.
Sam Dew
#17. I've tried to meditate, but I feel like I always overthink the process. When I need to calm my mind, I will go for a family hike.
Jacob Vargas
#18. The best way to tackle the things that terrify you is to not overthink them - to just do them quickly.
Marci Lyn Curtis
#19. At the end of the day, you are in control of your own happiness. Life is going to happen whether you overthink it, overstress it or not. Just experience life and be happy along the way. You can't control everything in your life, but you can control your happiness.
Holly Holm
#20. My father taught me not to overthink things, that nothing will ever be perfect, so just keep moving and do your best.
Scott Eastwood
#21. When you feel yourself drawn to do or try something, don't overthink it.
Howard Buffett
#22. I overthink.
I overfeel.
I overlive.
I overdie.
Filipe Russo
#25. The more you overthink the less you will understand.
Habeeb Akande
#26. It's harder to score well in a slow round. The tendency is to overthink shots while you're waiting and become mentally exhausted. Instead, chat with your playing partners about anything but golf. Concentrate on each shot for no more than a minute. You'll stay fresh.
Rickie Fowler
#27. Follow your heart, darling, and please, please - try not to overthink things. Relax and enjoy yourself. You are so young, sweetheart. You have so much of life to experience yet, just let it happen. You deserve the best of everything.
E.L. James
#28. Don't overthink things. Sometimes you can convince your head not to listen to your heart. Those are the decisions you regret for the rest of your life. Faith Barnett From Texas Tangle
Leah Braemel
#29. Don't overthink things in front of you. I fit moves you, shoot it. If it's fun, shoot it. If you've never seen it before, shoot it.
Jay Maisel
#30. It is very important to embrace failure and to do a lot of stuff - as much stuff as possible - with as little fear as possible. It's much, much better to wind up with a lot of crap having tried it than to overthink in the beginning and not do it.
Stefan Sagmeister
#31. 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.
Steven Pressfield
#32. Your ability to solve complex problems may make you overthink simple problems, going for the convoluted answer and overlooking the simple, more obvious solution.
Anonymous
#33. Sometimes emotions matter more than the right words, and if you overthink every goddamn word it's like suffocating it until all the emotion is gone.
Jewel E. Ann
#34. I didn't used to overthink my choices quite so much. Then someone made what I've always been told is a very important choice for me, and now I tend to overthink everything else.
E.K. Johnston
#35. My bed is the magical place where I love to overthink like a PSYCHO.
Tanya Masse
#36. That can definitely mess with your music - if you overthink. 'What's radio going to think?' or 'What are these people going to think?'
Ashley Monroe
#37. I don't overthink when I'm styling. I kind of forgive myself and accept that I will make mistakes. Getting dressed should be a fun experience!
Paloma Faith
#38. I don't look for boyfriends, I don't really scour the awards shows for who I'm going to date, but I think love happens when you're not looking for it, and when it happens, I'm not going to be the one to overthink it.
Taylor Swift
#39. Don't overthink it, honey. Life's too short for that shit," he said, his lips grazing my skin. Every muscle tightened in the most delicious way, and his thumb, it was still swirling, still dragging out an array of sensations. "I like you. That's all.
J. Lynn
#40. Breathing's difficult if you overthink the action, like staring at the word the for too long. Grows unnatural, bizarrely wrong.
Lia Riley
#41. I pick and choose my battles, but I overthink everything because I have to think about everything.
Action Bronson
#42. I second-guess and overthink and rethink every single thing that I do.
Taylor Swift
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