Quotes About Overwhelm

It's not easy taking my problems one at a time when they refuse to get in line.

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

People are trying to grab every part of you, so it's really hard to focus.

So much of grandeur and richness in songs unnerve me.

There is a kind of euphoria of grief, a degree of madness.

Just like the Perimeter! It never rains but it pours, declared the Major.

It is not that we have too little time to do all the things we need to do , it is that we feel the need to do too many things in the time we have.

Soon you will be home and in my arms and the world will reconfigure itself around you and there will be enough compassion for you to feel scared by how much I care for you.

You're really spread out now, you've got stuff all over the WORLD! You've got stuff at home, stuff in storage, stuff in Honolulu, stuff in Maui, stuff in your pockets...supply lines are getting longer and harder to maintain.

Whenever I hear about parents who have nine or ten children, the only thing I wonder is how they survive the birthday parties.

The circumstances would always be stronger than his assertion. And

There are a lot of opportunities to do a lot of great, wonderful things, and if you say yes to them all, you will not sleep or breathe or eat.

We very quickly forget about the wonderful things we've got. People lose their excitement because there's too much. Basically we're experiencing nothing, because everything is available to us.

There's a lot of pressure and criticism in a crisis, but you can't miss the wood for the trees.

Paul Simon started piling up a lot of words, more than the bar could handle, and I stopped!

I think some people would say that I do overwhelm the words with the music, and sometimes thank goodness I do.

People get so frustrated with me, so much so that they've threatened me, they've threatened my family and it just cannot go on, it really can't.

I can't take 24-hour news. Life is what it is, and we can handle it, but when you're getting it pushed down your throat, it's too much.

There's so much going on in the world. There's so much information being thrown at us - so many things are being sold to us, and we're being told how we should appear and how to be more successful, blah, blah, blah. How does that manifest itself? In the pressures, the stress, this need to escape.

Because of social media being such a marketable format, things are constantly being released, so people don't pay as much attention because they have a million things being thrown at them. You reach more people, but now there's more content. Before, it was harder to get the people but there was less content.

I got a lot of praise and attention post 'Kai Po Che' but I was thrown into a big ocean suddenly.

But why would we mistake an abundance of information for peace of mind?

She says it's like a switch - a big red PANIC switch - gets flipped in my head and I can't turn it off. She says we're going to figure out how to turn it off.

The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.