Andy Dalton Quotes

Basically, I have to stop overthinking.

I never overthink or overanalyze anything.

I tend to over-analyse things. I'm not the type of person to flip a coin and let things happen.

It's important not to think too much about what you do.

Most people would focus on concentrating more, and I can't do that. It almost makes me overthink a lot of my things. I have to focus on not thinking.

Life isn't easy but it's not as complicated as we make it out to be.

I could actually be wasting my time by not meditating, as I'd be more stressed out.

Any school would gain, if the students began the day with meditation, cleared their heads and got themselves centered.

Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems - most life situations are - but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?

The simple things in life ground me and keep me focused so I'm able to do a good job with what is in front of me.

I meditate an hour in the morning and an hour in the evening. Once a year I go away for a long retreat. And overall, I just feel more comfortable in my own skin and less anxious, less sad, less fearful.

When you take away the phone and e-mail and you don't have a million things to run around to, it allows your mind the space to think more expansively about the things that matter.

You're able to do more when you're not clouded with wasted anxiety.

I feel it's the conscious mind that messes things up. The conscious mind is constantly telling you, this might happen or that might happen, even before it has happened. Your conscious mind tells you the next ball might be a out-swinger, but when it's coming at you you realize it's an in-swinger... so literally, you've played two balls.

At the end of the day, I can end up just totally wacky, because I've made mountains out of molehills. With meditation, I can keep them as molehills.

I've learned that I've got to keep level-headed.

Fear is the enemy. I distrust it. Any feeling or decision I make that might be motivated by fear I quickly reassess.

The more externally chaotic the world becomes, the more we need sound internal logic, especially when it comes to our emotions.

I'm full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm.

Concentration is a fine antidote to anxiety.

And I figured out that the reason I couldn't get through the day as well as I can now is because I had too many things on my mind, on my plate, you know, for one person to have. So I started to eliminate some of the things that were too heavy to carry and unnecessary.

Use the energy that fear creates to focus the mind more intently on the present moment - where fear doesn't exist.

When I was much younger, I realized that when I was handling something very large, and I was on my own doing that, that my breathing rate would increase, and that would affect my ability to think as well as I normally would. So when that starts happening, I slow down.

Sometimes it just becomes so technical that you forget what you're doing. If you start thinking about how you come down the stairs and think about how each muscle is working, you can't go down the stairs. Anyway, I'm a person who overthinks and overanalyzes everything, so if you give me one thought, it creates a lot more.

I have a tough time turning my brain off, to be honest.