Mental Analysis Quotes

I think a lot of people overthink things.

I'm more cerebral than I want to be.

To think is to destroy. The very process of thought indicates it for the same thought, as thinking is decomposing.

I don't want to do anything Freudian.

The downside of being a writer is you get plenty of time to overthink your life.

I think intellectualization is what's killing most people.

If you want to understand what you're thinking, you kind of have to work it through and write it. And the only way to work it through, for me, is to write it.

Sometimes I overtinker, which is something wrong with my brain chemistry. But in figuring out why I do that, maybe I'll make myself a better person. I doubt it.

When I was a kid, I loved Sherlock Holmes. I'm not interested in crimes. I'm interested in the mind of the detective and his process, which to me is a lot like the artist.

And then you think about what you think, which is very dangerous.

One critic in the L.A. Times said John Kerry looks like he is thinking too much. Well this is one place President Bush has him beat.

First Sight means you can see what really is there, and Second Thoughts mean thinking about what you are thinking. And in Tiffany's case, there were sometimes Third Thoughts and Fourth Thoughts although these...sometimes led her to walk into doors.

I pick and choose my battles, but I overthink everything because I have to think about everything.

The results of ethnic psychology constitute, at the same time, our chief source of information regarding the general psychology of the complex mental processes.

For me, my greatest weakness is also my greatest strength: I'm a complete overthinker about everything.

If I had not become an actress, I would be a journalist or a psychologist: I like to analyze the mind and be involved in political moments that change history.

Maybe I think too much.

I really can't watch myself. I just get too in my head about it and start overthinking everything.

Basically, I have to stop overthinking.

Sometimes, it's better to stop thinking and trust your instincts. That's what I used to do when I first started making music, but as time goes on, you can sometimes over-intellectualise things.

I like stories with lots of psychology.

I listened very, very carefully to the world around me to pick up the signals of when trouble was coming. Not that I could stop it. But it made me observant. That was helpful when I became a lawyer, because I knew how to read people's signals. When a witness hesitated, my mind would race to the conclusion that he was trying to hide something. What was it? I'd dissect the story in my brain and nine times out of ten figure out a hole they were trying to avoid.

Or is it that I think too much?

Justin's real weakness is, he's very much in his head. He intellectualizes a lot.

When a new idea comes our way, we must put it on our mental scales and weigh it carefully before deciding its value.