Larry Brown Quotes

I have an obsession with details and pattern.

There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him to make discoveries. It was the power of never letting exceptions go unnoticed.

I'm a prolific overanalyzer. And I can always use 15 words in place of three 3, no matter what.

I have a critical nature, in the sense that when I look at something I often look for the flaws.

You can over analyze anything. I constantly have to tell myself, 'Sabrina, stop thinking.' There are people who are just analytical. It's part of your gene makeup, or too much caffeine.

I wasn't good at school.

I don't get wrapped up in technique and the like.

I wouldn't say that I'm particularly bothered or obsessed with detail.

I may not have a practical mind, but it's very fixated on concrete things. I like detail.

I've got an overactive, analytical brain. I get frustrated, impatient, angry with myself. I swear at myself a lot.

The world might be a very scary place if it were only run by Virgos.

I'm not an analyzer. I've got a son that analyzes everything and everybody. But I don't analyze people.

But I got drafted out of high school, and my mother wasn't having it. She was like, you're not about to think that you can just play ball, because if you get hurt, you're going to be out of luck.

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.

My father once told me that I have a mind like a lint trap - I pull stuff out of everything, and a lot of it just clings.

School was rough for me. I was a good student in middle school, but high school wasn't so fun. I still pulled through, though! I excelled in art, fashion, history and English literature - anything creative. Math and science I struggled a bit more in.

Everything that David Chase does has a tremendous amount of specificity. He is very detail oriented.

My mom didn't let me play tackle until I was in high school. She didn't want me to get hurt.

I'm a perfectionist. And that's served me very well in my career. It allows me to handle these large, complex problems without letting things fall through the cracks... That is the mentality you have to have to attack these complex problems of chip design, for example, when you're overwhelmed with complexity.

I tend to overthink things. I'm not the guy who screams 'This is a world smash!' when I finish a song.

You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.

When I was a child, she'd have me wash the lettuce ten times or open walnuts by hand to make a cake. I was like, 'Mom, this is ridiculous.' But now? I run my kitchen the same way.

Academically, I was thick. School wasn't bad, but I was.

With experience, you understand expectations, you understand consequences, but sometimes it gets a little bit hard, especially for me, that I'm a perfectionist - I want to analyse everything. And sometimes it's most important to just let go and trust your instincts. This is what I need to do more of.

I'm very detail-oriented, which is good and bad. Because I will wake up in the middle of the night thinking about something or seeing a mistake, thinking about it, and I immediately send an email - I'm very focused on details.