Beauden Barrett Quotes

I can tend to over-think things.

I'm good at snap decisions. But if you let me, I will chew something to death.

It only seems as if you're doing something when you worry.

People who think too much before they act don't act too much.

I over-think stuff a lot.

You've heard the saying, 'Analysis creates paralysis.' You can't be 100 percent sure of anything.

He suffered from paralysis by analysis.

I've come to learn that the choices I labor over and go back and forth about and ask a million people for their opinions and make lists about... those are always the wrong choices.

Sometimes thinking too much can destroy your momentum.

As women, we can over-think things so much that we silence our intuition and only focus on the reasons something won't work.

Ironically, when a bunch of very smart people are sitting around a table for hours trying to figure out whether they should do something, that tends to not necessarily lead to the best results.

I have always tended to over-think things and that had come into my game. That's good in certain moments but not when you have to make a quick decision.

I think sometimes when things have too much time to develop you overthink it and you start making changes that aren't necessary.

Thought is constantly creating problems that way and then trying to solve them. But as it tries to solve them it makes it worse because it doesn't notice that it's creating them, and the more it thinks, the more problems it creates.

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

If there is something to worry about, my mind has a tendency to worry about it. That can cut two ways. It can really keep you on the ball, but if you worry about every little thing, it's not a good use of time and energy.

Only fools answer hypothetical questions.

Today, whenever I'm under pressure to make a decision on a transaction but I don't know what the right one is, I try desperately to postpone it. I'll insist on more information - on doing extra laps around the intellectual parking lot - before committing. I take the same approach with people, too.

I'm not good with decisions.

I overthink everything.

I can be indecisive about things - and the less important something is, the more indecisive I am.

Women tend to overthink things.

I think a lot of people overthink things.

Basically, I have to stop overthinking.

It's very personal to me and doesn't work for everybody, but what I have found in my experience is that when I make pro and con lists, it's usually because I am trying to talk myself out of a good idea or talk myself into a really bad one.