Quotes About Overwhelm

And what is your current complaint? I don't like Barrayar, I want to go home, my father-in-law wants to murder my baby, half my friends are running for their lives, and I can't get ten minutes alone with my husband, whom you people are consuming before my eyes, my feet hurt, my head hurts, my soul hurts... It was all too complicated. The poor man just wanted something to put in his blank, not an essay. Fatigue, Cordelia managed at last.

Fear outran its cause

In the kitchen reigned confusion and despair. One edition of jelly was trickled from pot to pot, another lay upon the floor, and a third was burning gaily on the stove. Lotty, with Teutonic phlegm, was calmly eating bread and currant wine, for the jelly was still in a hopelessly liquid state, while Mrs. Brooke, with her apron over her head, sat sobbing dismally.

Había aumentado tanto su enojo que éste la dominaba por completo como suele ocurrir con los malos pensamientos y sentimientos si no se expulsan en el primer momento.

You must distribute it faster than it grows! If you do not, it will crush you and your children and your children's children.

Falam muito alto, rapidíssimo e todos ao mesmo tempo", queixou-se Adams. "Se fizerem uma pergunta, antes que seu interlocutor possa pronunciar três palavras em resposta, voltam à falação e sem previsão para acabar."25 A

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An explosive outburst—like other forms of maladaptive behavior—occurs when the cognitive demands being placed upon a person outstrip that person's capacity to respond adaptively.

When is challenging behavior most likely to occur? When the demands being placed on a kid exceed his capacity to respond adaptively.

It's as though as a species we have no brakes, only breakdowns.

Ignorance." In this root sense, ignorance is an act of will, a choice that one makes over and over again, especially when information overwhelms and knowledge has become synonymous with impotence.

They were all overachievers with exploding heads, and this was not a good thing . . . or was it?

It was an explosion of sadness.

My soul is like the dead sea, over which no bird can fly; when it gets halfway, it sinks down spent to its death and destruction.

The strange thing about being a mother is how often I'm interrupted. Like something is happening and then something else is happening. It is difficult to get a good grasp on things.

Sometimes, people trying to commit suicide manage it in a manner that leaves them breathless with astonishment.

The question is, do you mean to do right by her? Do you mean well by her? Or is your desire so great that it overwhelms your sense of the right and the good?

Most of the stress people experience comes from inappropriately managed commitments they make or accept.

Stress is like fire: When controlled and used for a purpose, it serves us well. Left unbridled, it can consume us.

I stress a lot, sometimes.

Stress is the worst thing. That's the ultimate demise of any good thing.

Stress is the negative whirlwind of emotions that gets imposed on top of our stimulation and engagement.

Stress is something that is sort of out of your control. You get stressed out over looking at the finish line. Stress is something that is an outside thing. Stress is an anxiety.

I try to take it one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once.