Quotes About Overwhelmed

People feel overwhelmed by the news cycle, and by this nagging feeling that the kind of vitriol out of Washington is just not how we are supposed to act as a government, and as a nation.

I remember my first time in the studio, I wasted like six hours. There were too many people in there. I was kind of shy.

I was so busy fighting and so busy trying to keep everything above water that I didn't realize I was spiraling downward with nowhere to go.

Sometimes I can think of so many ways of expressing myself that I feel I'm an old typewriter, and too many keys come forward at once - and I get jammed.

Nobody's strong enough to stand up under a flood of weak material.

I got mobbed at a pizza parlor. Kids and especially girls went going crazy. They got so excited.

I'm on a lot of airplanes. There are definitely times when I just vapor-lock. I'm on the plane, and I have so much to do, I just don't know what to do. It never lasts for very long. It might last for the flight.

Many gardens are hijacked by their plants and end up looking like a room overstuffed with furniture.

For me, the path of failure exceeded by far the joys of success. My plight was hopeless.

I tried not to cry on the podium, I tried to enjoy this moment. I did enjoy Rio but was trying to go well that I didn't really, it's a bit overwhelming.

I feel there is this looming cloud over my life.

The roar of 93,000 people was just... I had nothing to compare that to.

The whole 'Roots' thing is a very confusing time in my life, because I don't think I knew how to deal with the whole fame thing very well - especially in Brazil. We went to Brazil, and the record was massive - like real, real big; like Beatles big. And I remember I tried to go to the mall with my wife, and we got mobbed.

Sometimes I feel surrounded by this dark cloud, and it feels like I can't breathe. It's nervousness and I don't know what else.

Sometimes, when I'm surrounded by a lot of people, I shake, I'm so nervous.

Of course, I have my ways of getting into trouble. We all have times when we think, Oh my God, can the world please swallow me up and take me away from this?

Life just swallowed me up for a few years.

See, New York is over the hill. It's swallowed up in its own garbage. And the people - I can't stand the people.

Periodically, my mind is blown and I'm swamped in feelings I can't deny.

If you're blessed to do something like 'Roots'... you find yourself immersed. You're asked to do this, to do that - all for admirable causes. But you're just swamped.

It's easy to get swept up in the day to day ridiculous things that are in the news. They're not meaningless, they're legitimate and worth being engaged with. But it's easy to get overwhelmed and swept up and forget what real life feels like.

Remember, most parents and leaders are … oversaturated with information. overwhelmed with responsibility. overcommitted with activity. If

It's all gone and I don't know what to do.

I attempted in vain to calculate the size of the holdings on the shelves, floor on floor, only to boggle hopelessly, baffled by bibliographic boundlessness.