Shelby Lynne Quotes

We think too much and feel too little.

I try not to be overly analytical.

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.

Thinking is the problem. Thinking is hazardous to your progress in life. Don't think - feel.

Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.

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

Don't over think too much.

Basically, I have to stop overthinking.

I think too much, which is a blessing and a curse.

A 'nidiot' is something different from an idiot. An idiot is someone whose problems are caused by not concentrating enough. A 'nidiot' is someone who makes his life more complicated by thinking too much rather than not enough. I'm not an idiot, but I'm definitely a 'nidiot'!

They say that I'm very calculated and not very sensitive - that a regular, average person, there are many things that bother them, and I don't see or feel it.

Your numbness is something perhaps you cannot help. It is what the world has done to you. But your coldness. That is what you do to the world.

I have never had time for the idea of searching. Whenever I wanted to express something, I did so without thinking of the past or the future.

Or is it that I think too much?

I'm a big thinker, and sometimes I think too much, and my brain can get in the way of myself.

It is feeling that sets a man thinking, and not thought that sets him feeling.

I realized that, to a large degree, I had kept my rational mind at bay my whole life. I just acted on intuition in terms of how I related to life. At some point, my rational mind started creeping in, and it would not shut up. I finally had to address it and confront it. I think most intelligent people, at a younger age than I have, begin to question some of the fundamental assumptions our society promotes. But me, I just rejected it without even considering it.

It is not half so important to know as to feel.

I think intellectualization is what's killing most people.

I think you gotta have an honesty and a humility about human nature and that it's not about you at the end of the day.

It's not the events that shape my life that determine how I feel and act, but, rather, it's the way I interpret and evaluate my life experiences.

Feeling is not selective, I keep telling you that. You can’t feel pain, you aren’t gonna feel anything else, either.

That's what I think is the biggest challenge, is just being still and learning how to just be present in that stillness and not over do it, not over act.

I'm always kind of in my head thinking.

You’ve never reacted to someone else. You project meaning onto nothing. And you react to the meaning you’ve projected