Analysis Paralysis Quotes

Indecision is the seedling of fear.

A person sometimes can't make a decision unless they know what decision to make.

Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.

People calculate too much and think too little.

If your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything.

If you don't make up your mind, your unmade mind will unmake you.

Indecision is the greatest thief of opportunity.

Too many choices can overwhelm us and cause us to not choose at all. For businesses, this means that if they offer us too many choices, we may not buy anything.

I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much.

I think a lot of people overthink things.

The first EDSer to see a snake kills it. At GM, first thing you do is organize a committee on snakes. Then you bring in a consultant who knows a lot about snakes. Third thing you do is talk about it for a year.

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

If you intellectualize and examine the creative process too carefully it can evaporate and vanish. It's not only terribly difficult to talk about, it's also dangerous.

I'm not good with decisions.

Make a decision! Failure to act is often the biggest failure of all.

If you spend more than 13 minutes analyzing economic and market forecasts, you've wasted 10 minutes

When you give people too many choices it makes them hesitate and not buy stuff.

Indecision is a major time waster; 80% of decisions should be made the first time they come up

If every conceivable precaution is taken at first, one is often too discouraged to proceed at all.

I was frequently told at drama school that I was thinking too much.

I think intellectualization is what's killing most people.

I've always felt some kind of connection to people who are kind of over-smart. People who over-think things to the point of some sort of paralysis, and I think that certainly can be me on any given day.

So I went way too in depth? I thought they wanted the hole by hole.

I overanalyze things way too much, to the point where it affects my life. Like, when I'm talking to a boy, I'll overanalyze a text message he sent. And I have to think to myself, 'Just chill out. Some guy sent me a text message. That's all. Don't read something into it that's not there. Just be glad he sent you a text message!'

One of the rules I've learned is that struggling to try and think your way into making an investment is usually the best way to not have a great outcome.