Overthinking quotes
11 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"There is something to the fact that when you're on stage or when you're playing someone else, you're able to transmute all the things inside you that maybe get a bit blocked by the wall of shyness, or the wall of anxiety, or [by] overthinking. They sort of fall away in that moment and channeled into something else."
"You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are of any value."
"He never complicates a desire by overthinking it, unlike Mirabelle, who spins a cocoon around an idea until it is immobile."
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