Overwhelmed Quotes - Page 17

• I began to practise day and night, and the more I did, the more I was overwhelmed by the tremendous achievement of that great family of black American musicians I was beginning to know closely.

  Gilad Atzmon

  Night, Achievement, Black

  Gilad Atzmon (2011). “The Wandering Who?: A Study of Jewish Identity Politics”, p.3, John Hunt Publishing

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• If one steps out on a starry night and observes one's inner state, one asks if one could hate or be overwhelmed by envy or resentment. ... Is it not true that no man or woman has ever committed a crime while in a state of wonder?

  Jacob Needleman

  Hate, Night, Men

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• It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries. Corollary to this we find that we no sooner get a problem solved than we are overwhelmed with a multiplicity of additional problems in a most beautiful payoff of heretofore unknown, previously unrecognized, & as-yet unsolved problems.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Beautiful, Discovery, Problem

  R. Buckminster Fuller (1982). “Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking”, p.19, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• I wake up every morning excited. Rather than become complacent or overwhelmed, I've made a choice for life - and I can do something about it.

  Gary Holland

  Morning, Commitment, Choices

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• When I was a kid and going to the movies I was overwhelmed by the way women were always second-class citizens in the film.

  Brit Marling

  Kids, Class, Citizens

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• What of the souls already released from their bodies? We believe that they are overwhelmed in that vast sea of eternal light and of luminous eternity

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Believe, Sea, Light

  Saint Bernard (of Clairvaux) (1981). “On Loving God: Selection from Sermons”, Greenwood Press

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• Many of us feel stress and get overwhelmed not because we're taking on too much, but because we're taking on too little of what really strengthens us.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Stress, Littles, Too Much

  "Perk Up Your Profits: A Proven 4-Step System To Stimulate Revenues While Rewarding Your People". Book by Mohamed Tohami, September 21, 2013.

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• If I couldn't get published tomorrow I'd still be writing. It's something to do with feeling so overwhelmed by this experience of life that you have to tell someone about it, and in a way that reorders the experience to make it manageable.

  Graham Joyce

  Writing, Feelings, Way

  "The magus of the Midlands", www.theguardian.com. October 20, 2000.

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• Making sweeping statements such as 'no sweets ever again' has never worked before, and it's not going to work now. You'll get quickly overwhelmed and punt on any positive momentum you created.

  Jude Bijou

  Sweet, Momentum, Going To Work

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• Blackened skeleton arms of wood by the wayside pointed upward to the convent, as if the ghosts of former travellers, overwhelmed by the snow, haunted the scene of their distress. Icicle-hung caves and cellars built for refuges from sudden storms, were like so many whispers of the perils of the place; never-resting wreaths and mazes of mist wandered about, hunted by a moaning wind; and snow, the besetting danger of the mountain, against which all its defences were taken, drifted sharply down.

  Charles Dickens

  Taken, Skeletons, Wind

  Charles Dickens (2009). “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: Little Dorrit”, p.448, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Work addiction seems to be an addiction we are proud of. We almost seem to brag with mock displeasure that we are "overwhelmed" with busyness, sometimes as an excuse for not really being able to do what we really want to be doing. Work addiction is a symptom not of working your brains out but of your brain working you out. Why are you doing what you're doing for a career and how do you like doing it? Do you like your answer?

  Paul Pearsall

  Careers, Addiction, Brain

  Paul Pearsall (1988). “Super joy: in love with living”, Doubleday Books

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• Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Children, Married, Producers

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• Sometimes when we get overwhelmed we forget how big God is.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Sometimes, Forget, Bigs

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• I loved teaching. It was my world. I only left because I was overwhelmed with three careers - teaching, writing, and my family.

  Patricia Reilly Giff

  Teaching, Writing, Careers

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• The biggest mistakes I've ever made are when I've been rushed. If I'm overwhelmed, I slow down. It's more effective.

  Kirsten Gillibrand

  Mistake, Slow Down, Made

  "Meet Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (and Take Her Work Advice)". Interview with Cindi Leive, www.glamour.com. March 11, 2014.

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• Most of the problems of government come from people being overwhelmed by the size and scale of what they have to do.

  Tony Blair

  Government, People, Size

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• I love meditating and taking some time for myself when I need it. As moms, it's easy to feel guilty about this sort of thing, but it's necessary. If I'm feeling overwhelmed, I'll walk down the beach or just sit in silence and reflect. Even if it's just 10 minutes, every little bit helps.

  Molly Sims

  Mom, Beach, Silence

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• I was a little excited but mostly blorft. "Blorft" is an adjective I just made up that means 'Completely overwhelmed but proceeding as if everything is fine and reacting to the stress with the torpor of a possum.' I have been blorft every day for the past seven years.

  Tina Fey

  Witty, Stress, Mean

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• I loved meditation. I love it because that's where you find what your voice is. You cannot really find it easily in this culture. This culture is the noisiest culture ever, ever. I think the damage that it has done to people is in that realm of silencing them. They are overwhelmed by gadgets. They don't know what to think because they're so heavily programmed about what it is that they should want and should think.

  Alice Walker

  Thinking, Voice, People

  Source: alicewalkersgarden.com

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• The conscious mind is easily overwhelmed. The unconscious mind is vast and far more powerful, but by definition we're not aware of it.

  Nick Morgan

  Powerful, Mind, Definitions

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I'd been basically anchored in New York for three years, but I fled to L.A. after the funeral and decided that I had to start a movie immediately. It was the only way to avoid becoming overwhelmed by depression. And that meant financing the film myself because there is no such thing as "immediately" in movies that one writes.

  James Toback

  Writing, Funeral, Film

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There's this emotion we all feel of being overwhelmed at times, feeling that you can't get ahead. For me it's self-imposed because I'm so driven and I'm always going from project to project.

  Kenny Chesney

  Self, Feelings, Emotion

  "Spiritual side of Kenny Chesney". Interview with Chrissie Dickinson, www.chicagotribune.com. April 29, 2013.

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• I don't get recognized too much, which is cool because, you know, I don't want people to be overwhelmed.

  Tom Lenk

  People, Want, Too Much

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I can't hang around with lots of people these days because I am hypersensitive. So when I am around a lot of people or a big roomful of people I get almost autistic. I get overwhelmed and really tired. So I don't like being around large groups.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Tired, People, Groups

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• Our conscious minds are rapidly overwhelmed with the few tasks that they attempt to manage. That's why our unconscious minds have evolved to handle so much of our thinking.

  Nick Morgan

  Thinking, Mind, Tasks

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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