Quotes About Overwhelm

We had access to too much equipment, too much money, and little by little we went insane.

I could tell it was going to be a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.

It's easy to carry the past as a burden instead of a school. It's easy to let it overwhelm you instead of educate you.

When you have too many top priorities, you effectively have no top priorities.

I get uncomfortable in large groups of people and loud music.

Everyone should have themselves regularly overwhelmed by Nature

The multiplying villainies of nature do swarm upon him... [from Macbeth]

There is no doubt that I have lots of words inside me; but at moments, like rush-hour traffic at the mouth of a tunnel, they jam.

And then--a Day as huge As Yesterdays in pairs, Unrolled its horror in my face-- Until it blocked my eyes

Management philosophy: Pay attention to the vital fiew and ignore the trivial many. I could go insane if I obsessed over every little details of all my companies.

Sometime we get so tired that we wish to get defeated, and want to feel the pleasure of that failure.

I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.

When anger and sorrow overflow, sometimes it becomes poetry.

When leaders take back power, when they act as heroes and saviors, they end up exhausted, overwhelmed, and deeply stressed.

The factors that make work life stressful and overwhelming mostly include the lack of control over critical variables in your job, especially being marginalized from decision making.

We all have a lot more to read than we can read and a lot more to do than we can do.

The second warning is not to overwhelm people with a picture that is so hard for them to identify with that they become intimidated rather than excited by it.

And what if excess of love Bewildered them till they died?

The cardinal error of the Germans who opposed Nazism was their failure to unite against it. At the crest of their popular strength, in July 1932, the National Socialists had attained but 37 per cent of the vote. But the 63 per cent of the German people who expressed their opposition to Hitler were much too divided and shortsighted to combine against a common danger which they must have known would overwhelm them unless they united, however temporarily, to stamp it out. The

We were too sick of the case to talk about it anymore but too obsessed with it to talk about anything else.

choke him. They filled him with their trial and

Some people become depressed at the scale of the universe, because it makes them feel insignificant. Other people are relieved to feel insignificant, which is even worse. But, in any case, those are mistakes. Feeling insignificant because the universe is large has exactly the same logic as feeling inadequate for not being a cow. Or a herd of cows. The universe is not there to overwhelm us; it is our home, and our resource. The bigger the better.

Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.

Everything is bullshit! he thought. Why did I hire these people? It shouldn't have been this big. This was too many people, too much money. It should have been just me and Tom and a small team of people with a common goal. It should have been like the way it was when we weren't biz guys. We were just gamers.