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Quotes About Overwhelmed

When I'm cooking or doing other physical work and I get overwhelmed, it's usually because I'm not taking care of myself, so I'll take a break. I'll make a snack or a cup of tea. Or I'll just drink a glass of water and sit down outside for a few minutes. It's usually enough to get me calm and clear.
~ Timothy Ferriss
When you feel overwhelmed or unfocused, what do you do? Whenever I feel overwhelmed, I complain to my wife about it. After listening patiently for about 30 seconds, she generally tells me to STFU. Then I meditate or work out.
~ Timothy Ferriss
When you feel overwhelmed or unfocused, what do you do? I work with my mindset coach, Elliot Roe, and/or use our app Primed Mind. After ten minutes, I'm in the zone, recharged, and ready to focus on my upcoming challenges.
~ Timothy Ferriss
What did I key into the sat-nav system of my life [where do I want to be 10, 20 years from now]? What is my ultimate destination? You have to look at that every time you feel overwhelmed. Remembering that destination will help you make the single most important distinction in life, which is to distinguish between an opportunity to be seized and a temptation to be resisted.
~ Timothy Ferriss
When you feel overwhelmed or unfocused, what do you do? What questions do you ask yourself? Always these questions: Sleep? Exercise? Healthy food? Am I resentful because I'm not setting or holding a boundary?
~ Timothy Ferriss
My panic was about more than being overwhelmed in my responsibilities; it revealed a lack of trust in God. We can't move toward community with one another until we have been drawn into community with God.
~ Timothy S. Lane
Lacking a functional state that assured basic social goods taken for granted elsewhere—education, pensions, health care, transport, parental leave, vacations—Americans could be overwhelmed by each day, and lose a sense of the future.
~ Timothy Snyder
I was a little excited but mostly blorft. "Blorft" is an adjective I just made up that means 'Completely overwhelmed but proceeding as if everything is fine and reacting to the stress with the torpor of a possum.' I have been blorft every day for the past seven years.
~ Tina Fey
I already get 10 job offers a year, which is more than I can handle anyway.
~ Leroy Hood
I remember the first scene I shot on 'The Blind Side.' I was with Sandra Bullock, and I kept trying to stop myself thinking, 'Oh my God, I can't believe I'm in a movie with her.'
~ Lily Collins
Whenever I get any of the 'Game of Thrones' scripts, it's always like, 'oh my God, how am I going to do this?' It's a sort of performance anxiety about being able to do a good job.
~ David Nutter
I cry for a lot of good things that happen. I cry a lot, okay?
~ Meghan Trainor
Multitasking? I can't even do two things at once. I can't even do one thing at once.
~ Helena Bonham Carter
I feel like I'm just pretty - any time I have, like, a lot of emotions happening at one time, I just - everything gets really, like, muddy. Like, I feel just, like, in a haze or something.
~ Patti Harrison
When I walk onto a film set, I become frightened and nervous. There's all this equipment, all these people, and most of them do things you don't know how to do. I didn't come from a film background.
~ Kenneth Lonergan
I am sick to death of cleverness.  Everybody is clever nowadays.  You can't go anywhere without meeting clever people.  The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. 
~ Oscar Wilde
Lady Blunt had come up, flushed and triumphant, having left the solitary porter a demoralized wreck.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
We're all alike when we get bustled. We don't know what we're doing, and by the time we've put our hands up and got into shape, why, it's all over, and there you are. Don't you worry yourself, sir.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
She numbs her feelings, because they are bigger than she is.
~ Dani Shapiro
told me his heart was so full he could say no more to me.
~ Daniel Defoe
But from these three cats I afterwards came to be so pestered with cats that I was forced to kill them like vermin or wild beasts, and to drive them from my house as much as possible.
~ Daniel Defoe
for now the hand of Heaven had overtaken me, and I was undone without redemption; but, alas! this was but a taste of the misery I was to go through, as will appear in the sequel of this story.
~ Daniel Defoe
How mercifully can our Creator treat His creatures, even in those conditions in which they seemed to be overwhelmed in destruction!
~ Daniel Defoe
Te voy a explicar por qué rompimos, Ed. Te voy a contar en esta carta toda la verdad de por qué sucedió. Y la maldita verdad es que te quise demasiado.
~ Daniel Handler