Quotes About Overwhelm

When you try to do everything perfectly, it gets very tiring.

People try to change too much at once and it becomes overwhelming, and they end up falling off the program. So gradually changing bad habits makes much more of a difference than trying to change them all at once.

We use work to numb out. We can't turn off our machines because we're afraid we're going to miss something.

The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.

Humans will always babble. If someone wants to tweet that they can't decide whether to wear blue socks or brown socks, then fair enough. But when sharing becomes automated, I get the heebie-jeebies.

People will have MP3s of every Miles Davis' record but never think of hearing any of them twice in a row - there's just too much to get through.

If you are interested in a form of science or interested in a particular kind of business or whatever - or if you want to be a writer, there's so much information out there, it's almost too much.

This guy [Steve Lerner] is pure, 100% anti-capitalist and what he wants is what Cloward-Piven has basically said: Just overwhelm the system. It's sort of a derivative of Cloward-Piven.

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

Turns out, that's how it is with weddings. You just keep getting in deeper and deeper until you want to throw up.

All I know is that I have way more stuff that I want to write about than I possibly have time to.

You remind me of someone with a bad toothache who's hitting herself in the head with a hammer to distract herself from the pain in her mouth.

They loved their children, but parenting was all-consuming sometimes, to the point where you felt yourself barely hanging on to the you that didn't lose it just because your child spilled milk.

Finally, when she was shaking so much that he staggered with the violence of her pleasure, he drove her back against the wall and took her as she stood, careless of the clothes that bunched between them, oblivious to everything but the primitive, driving force that had conquered him far more devastatingly than he had conquered her.

Although my life was filled with chaos, it was familiar chaos, which gave me the feeling that I had some control over it. This was an illusion. —ANONYMOUS

Five seconds, and my body's humming. I go half-man, half-machine, and my thoughts go straight to touching her more, to how far I want to go, how far she might want to go, and damn, I start to hurt. No amount of music or hard work will fix this. My body's a beast. A beast that's been held back too long.

What will break me into a million pieces so that I am beyond repair, beyond usefulness?

so people really do tear out their hair and beat the ground with their fists

He's . . . he's having concentration problems," I answer. I don't want to say he had a complete mental meltdown.

There is so much stimuli coming at young people, you don't even have time to grieve before something new happens. We are desensitized to the issues.

Her mind is a mess, and she has no intention of cleaning today.

My mind is like a seaYou will only drown, If you think you can swimThere are things that devours me, No love can ever save me.

That's the trouble with grand passions, of course. You can never entirely cleanse yourself of them. It's best to avoid them altogether.

The problem with information is not that it is diverting and generally useless, but that it is toxic.