Quotes About Overwhelm

No matter how many personal productivity techniques you master, there will always be more to do than you can ever accomplish in the time you have available to you, no matter how much it is.

My mobile phone battery runs out all the time because all the messages come straight to me.

Most everyone I know feels frazzled and overwhelmed most of the time.

If we were to hit the level that Metallica or somebody like that hit, we'd have had a hard time dealing with it. I think it would have been our doom. It's hard for anybody at that level.

The world is crammed with messages. We'll never have time to read them all.

I'm worried about everything at all times.

The great enemy of achievement is a schedule already full.

I went through absolute stress and mayhem. I couldn't go out, because people were constantly on my back all the time.

You bite off more than you can chew, 'course you're going to choke. One bite at a time. And that goes for thinking things, too, not just food.

I forced myself to stop thinking about it. I went to the room in my brain where all my thoughts about Adam lived and disconnected the electricity and boarded up all the doors and windows, so nothing could get out. Obviously it was very unsightly. There were bound to be complaints from the neighboring thoughts. But I had no choice.

Now and again, a frantic feeling seized her with sudden force. It would come on without warning, a type of panic, a sense that there was something she'd left undone, which would have catastrophic consequences if it wasn't addressed.

It never rains but it damn well pours and I was afraid I'd be washed away in the deluge.

Empezamos a sentirnos más a gusto con nosotros mismos, menos abrumados por la angustia crónica que marca la época en la que vivimos.

There's more beauty on Earth than I can bear.

Suspiró, abrumado por los niveles de imbecilidad que padecía el mundo.

No era el deseo de aprender, de triunfar, lo que te confinaba en la biblioteca, sino de marearte, intoxicarte, perderte en esas materias —ciencias o letras, daba igual— para no pensar, para ahuyentar los recuerdos dominicanos. —Pero

The body shuts down when it's too sad," said my dad.

That was just how Jim was. He saturated. He overflowed. He drowned.

It exasperated her sometimes. The way men could be so sure of themselves. They put words together like sheds or shelves and you could stand on them they were so solid. And those feelings which overwhelmed you in the small hours turned to smoke.

If you've ever felt stress—and who hasn't?—chances are excellent that it's because you felt you just didn't have enough time to do what you wanted to at the level of quality to which you were committed.

A veces, evaluar demasiados detalles puede hacer que nos sintamos sobrecargados o abrumados.

My mind is like a racing engine, tearing itself to pieces because it is not connected up with the work for which it was built.

Stuff yourself very full of kippers," Luke said. "Then it will be impossible to feel anything at all.

The scope of one's personality is defined by the magnitude of that problem which is capable of driving a person out of his wits.