John Christopher Quotes

If you're too smart it can limit you because you spend so much time thinking that you don't do anything.

When men think much, they can rarely decide.

I think the worst decision is usually no decision. If you make the wrong decision you can usually course-correct, but if you don't make it, you've already made it, and it's usually the bad one.

While some of us act without thinking, too many of us think without acting.

Thinking about something is like picking up a stone when taking a walk, either while skipping rocks on the beach, for example, or looking for a way to shatter the glass doors of a museum. When you think about something, it adds a bit of weight to your walk, and as you think about more and more things you are liable to feel heavier and heavier, until you are so burdened you cannot take any further steps, and can only sit and stare at the gentle movements of the ocean waves or security guards, thinking too hard bout too many things to do anything else.

He who considers too much will perform little.

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

I can tend to over-think things.

I over-think stuff a lot.

It's easy to start over-thinking things and over-analysing things.

He suffered from paralysis by analysis.

Sometimes thinking too much can destroy your momentum.

I just think too much sometimes.

Most of the problems in life are because of two reasons, we act without thinking or we keep thinking without acting.

The native hue of resolution is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought; and enterprises of great pitch and moment, With this regard, their currents turn awry, and lose the name of action.

He thinks things through too much.

Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true.

Do you always think this much? It's just that sometimes people use thought to not participate in life.

Sometimes too much thinking leads to the Death of Doing

Overthinking is often a product of underdoing.

Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.

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

Yes, think what a lot of nonsense one can figure out with plenty of time. Brooding is the mother of ineffectiveness.

I can't stop thinking like this.

Someone shouts, "Enough!" and I think too much and nothing at all.