Quotes About Overwhelm

One moment, you have nothing, the next, you have more than you cope with.

We can stand only a certain amount of unhappiness; anything beyond that annihilates us or passes us by, leaving us apathethetic.

Emptying the ocean with a thimble again, our thimbles so tiny, and the ocean of need so huge.

to someone who is depressed, everything is about depression.

We fought so hard against the small things that we became small ourselves. —EUGENE O'NEILL

Bright people have the capability of freaking out faster and more dramatically than anyone else.

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

Frankly, as soon as you have two things to do stored only in your mind, you've generated personal failure, because you can't do them both at the same time. This produces a pervasive stress factor whose source can't be pinpointed.

thousands of people is that most stress they experience comes from inappropriately managed commitments they make or accept.

Trying to keep a list on the calendar, which must then be reentered on another day if items don't get done, is demoralizing and a waste of time.

There is too much distraction at the day-to-day, hour-to-hour level of commitments to allow for appropriate focus on the higher levels.

Boy, that was an amorphous blob of undoability!

The ever-new communication technologies have exponentially magnified the lack of clear limits to our commitments and our lives.

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

Most people let their reactive mental process run a lot of the show, especially where the too-much-to-do syndrome is concerned.

Esa preocupación permanente y estéril por todas las cosas que tenemos que hacer es por sí sola la mayor consumidora de tiempo y energía. —KERRY GLEESON

Most of us have, in the past seventy-two hours, received more change-producing, project-creating, and priority-shifting inputs than our parents did in a month, maybe even in a year. I

The more confidence you have that you can actually manifest things before you have all the knowledge and resources you might need, the more you can potentially overwhelm yourself with your own possibilities.

This constant, unproductive preoccupation with all the things we have to do is the single largest consumer of time and energy. —Kerry Gleeson

If you're not totally sure what your job is, it will always feel overwhelming.

If your head is your only system for placeholding, you will experience an attempted multitasking internally, which is psychologically impossible and the source of much stress for many people.

Most of us have, in the past seventy-two hours, received more change-producing, project-creating, and priority-shifting inputs than our parents did in a month, maybe even in a year.

The big problem is that your mind keeps reminding you of things when you can't do anything about them.

What's the first level of focus when the stuff hits the fan? Action! Work harder! Overtime! More people! Get busier! And a lot of stressed-out people are thrown at the situation.