Overanalysis Quotes

“Some people, from what I've seen, boo, when they lie, they become very still and centered and their gaze very concentrated and intense. They try to dominate the person they lie to. The person to whom they're lying. Another type becomes fluttery and insubstantial and punctuates his lie with little self-deprecating motions and sounds, as if credulity were the same as pity. Some bury the lie in so many digressions and asides that they like try to slip the lie in there through all the extraneous data like a tiny bug through a windowscreen ... Then there are what I might call your Kamikaze-style liars. These'll tell you a surreal and fundamentally incredible lie, and then pretend a crisis of conscience and retract the original lie, and then offer you the like they really want you to buy instead, so the real lie'll appear a some kind of concession, a settlement with through. That type's mercifully easy to see through ... Or then the type who sort of overelaborates on the lie, buttresses it with rococo formations of detail and amendment, and that's how you can always tell ... So Now I've established a subtype of the over-elaborator type. This is the liar who used to be an over-elaborator and but has somehow snapped to the fact that rococo elaborations give him away every time, so he changes and now lies tersely, sparely, seeming somehow bored, like what he's saying is too obviously true to waste time on.”
― David Foster Wallace

“My objective is to create my own world and these images which we create mean nothing more than the images which they are. We have forgotten how to relate emotionally to art: we treat it like editors, searching in it for that which the artist has supposedly hidden. It is actually much simpler than that, otherwise art would have no meaning. You have to be a child—incidentally children understand my pictures very well, and I haven’t met a serious critic who could stand knee-high to those children. We think that art demands special knowledge; we demand some higher meaning from an author, but the work must act directly on our hearts or it has no meaning at all.”
― Andrei Tarkovsky

“If you spend your life over analysing every encounter you will always see the tree, but never the forest.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“To my surprise, it was a place where my thoughts were the most lucid. I wasn’t bogged down in random trivial details or the luxury of time-consuming over-analysis. This place forced you to live because at any moment, life could be lost. Ramadi forced me to die unto myself.”
― M.B. Wilmot, Quixote in Ramadi: An Indigenous Account of Imperialism

“There's scientific evidence for the satisfizer over the maximizer. Those who just get it done will generally be happier with the outcome and will be able to be more effective than those who try to maximize every decision and they hold off on it until they have the maximal amount of information. They are less happy with the outcome, whatever decision they do end up making, and that decision is only marginally optimal in most cases, and sometimes is even worse. So get into the habit of being decisive. It is going to make you more effective and happier.”
― David Tian Ph.D

“The first step matters a lot. It breaks the jinks. It is courage in action. It is not an absence of fear. It is despising the fear. It is understanding that God has put everything good on the other side of fear.

Long planning can sometimes paralyze your needed efforts. A lot of it is fear induced. So, don’t overanalyze. STEP! Procrastination can steal your defining moments. Don’t do in the next minute what you can and should do NOW. So, just STEP!

The moment you do, even if falteringly, God opens to you a universe of opportunities. His light shines upon your path and His strength overwhelms your weakness. You see a new you. You are transformed from inside out. You believe you can and you go ahead to do.

The world is at your feet now. But before you revel in your newfound fame, you recall that you are here because God is and that it all started when you took the very first STEP.

So, STEP!”
― Abiodun Fijabi