Quotes About Overload

One symptom that you have bogged down in complexity overload is when you find yourself doggedly applying a method that is clearly irrelevant, at least to any outside observer. It is like the mechanically inept person whose car breaks down—so he puts water in the battery and empties the ashtrays. — P. J. Plauger

Love is all right for those who can handle the psychic overload. It's like trying to carry a full garbage can on your back over a rushing river of piss.

Time will become as famous as place. There will be time-tourists sitting around saying, "Yeah, but have you ever been to April fourth? Man!" My life has gotten just a little more complicated than my ability to describe it. That used to be the definition of madness, now it's just discontinuous overload.

My life has gotten just a little more complicated than my ability to describe it. That used to be the definition of madness, now it's just discontinuous overload.

Being flooded with information doesn't mean we have the right information or that we're in touch with the right people.

while people were drowning in data, knowledge was nowhere to be found.

If a man can't remember the laws," Ragnar said, "then he's got too many of them.

We live in interesting times. Information overload can make it difficult to sift fact from fiction.

Alan Grant: "There are... far too many words written. Millions and millions of them pouring from the presses every minute. It's a horrible thought." The Midget (his nurse): "You sound constipated.

A noxious stimulus, such as an angry person, crowds, noise, or bright light, can agitate us because our threshold for sensory overload is extremely low.

Set clear limits with energy vampires and toxic people. Remember that "no" is a complete sentence. You don't have to keep explaining yourself. I am adamant about avoiding draining people, particularly when I'm overloaded.

What makes an empath's overload symptoms worse? Fatigue, illness, rushing, traffic, crowds, loud environments, toxic people, low blood sugar, arguing, overwork, chemical sensitivities, too much socializing, and feeling trapped in overstimulating situations such as parties and cruises. Any combination of these conditions intensifies an empath's overload. Therefore, keep the following in mind: stress + low blood sugar = drama and exhaustion.

Everyone gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

I have a living room full of clothes. It's insane.

reading too much useless information makes you 46% less likely to think clearly

The tragic thing about the Internet is that you can find out way too much, way too quickly.

I don't think we should have less information in the world. The information age has yielded great advances in medicine, agriculture, transportation and many other fields. But the problem is twofold. One, we are assaulted with more information than any one of us can handle. Two, beyond the overload, too much information often leads to bad decisions.

Here's the thing: If you're monitoring every single thing that goes on in a given culture, if you have all the information that is there to be had, then that is the equivalent of having none of it. How are you going to process that amount of information?

The "Intense World" paper proposed that if the amygdala, which is associated with emotional responses, including fear, is affected by sensory overload, then certain responses that look antisocial actually aren't.

Ocurre que el tiempo se me huye entre los dedos, no porque lo este perdiendo sino todo lo contrario, porque le pongo tantas cosas adentro que al final se me rompe como la red de Naylon cuando la sobrecargo de naranjas, y me quedo con un monton de piolincitos en la mano y docenas de planetas corriendo por el suelo.

Vivemos cercados de palavras vãs, condenados a uma civilização que teme o silêncio. Fala-se muito para dizer bem pouco. Jornais, revistas, TV, outdoors, telefone, correio eletrônico - há demasiado palavrório. E sabemos todos que não se dá valor ao que se abusa.

a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention...

The physical demands of cycling is that it actually lowers your immune system, and you expose yourself to a tremendous amount of elements - so certain people might get a chronic overload and develop, say, bad asthma.

Everything has been degraded by what the sensory overload and the supposed freedom-of-choice technology has brought to us, and, in short, by the democratization of the arts.