Overwhelmed Quotes - Page 10

• That's a problem. I mean, like any sort of growing startup organization, we are sort of overwhelmed by our growth, and that means we're getting enormous quantity of whistleblower disclosures of a very high caliber but don't have enough people to actually process and vet this information.

  Julian Assange

  Mean, Organization, Enormous Quantities

  "Why the world needs WikiLeaks". Interview with Chris Anderson, www.ted.com. July 2010.

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• Why did the achievers overcome problems while thousands are overwhelmed by theirs? They refused to hold on to the common excuses for failure. They turned their stumbling blocks into stepping stones. They realized that they couldn't determine every circumstance in life but they could determine their choice of attitude towards every circumstance.

  John C. Maxwell

  Attitude, Block, Choices

  John C. Maxwell (2010). “Maxwell 2in1 (Developing the Leader w/in You/Developing Leaders Around You)”, p.80, Thomas Nelson

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• If I ever find myself overwhelmed, it's only because I am overwhelmed by how much more I want to learn. That is what drives me.

  Nikki Reed

  Want, Ifs

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• Those who give the first shock to a state are the first overwhelmed in its ruin; the fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed by him who was the first mover; he only beats the water for another's net.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Giving, Water, Ruins

  Michel de Montaigne, Antoine JAY (1842). “The Complete Works of Michael de Montaigne; Comprising; the Essays, Translated by Cotton; the Letters; the Journey Into Germany and Italy, Now First Translated; a Life by the Editor; Notes: ... Critical Opinions; ... the Éloges of MM. Jay and Villemain; a”, p.46

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• Being faced with too many options. I mean, it makes me feel as though I'm overwhelmed by too many possibilities; that can be a very vulnerable feeling because it's hard to make a decision.

  Reggie Watts

  Mean, Decision, Feelings

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• I can work myself up into a fearful, paralyzing state of mind that can last for days, weeks even months where I feel mad, totally isolated and alone, overwhelmed and completely out of control.

  Vinny Guadagnino

  Mad, Mind, Lasts

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• I think that drive to fight the fight day in and day out, I think that can go away. You can lose that. As long as you continue to be consumed and overwhelmed with the desire to get better and find another way and keep competing to figure out what you can do to help make this guy be better than he was a day ago, as long as that's there, I don't agree.

  Pete Carroll

  Fighting, Thinking, Long

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• After 10 years of eating vegetarian, I tried my boyfriend's. I was overwhelmed. It was orgasmic.

  Jessica Szohr

  Years, My Boyfriend, Vegetarian

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• The opulence of Wilde is a bit too florid for Sherlock, who is a much darker character, ... fascinated by the human condition, but also overwhelmed by it.

  Rupert Everett

  Character, Opulence, Wilde

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• For life: it is rather a determination not to be overwhelmed. For work: the truth can only be recalled, never invented.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Determination

  Marilyn Monroe (2010). “Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters”, p.159, Macmillan

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• To make independent films, you can't think about them too much, ponder on them too much, get overwhelmed by the enormity of it.

  Michael Rapaport

  Independent, Thinking, Too Much

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• I simply couldn’t conceive of how devastating it would be not to be able to hear my children’s voices. Not to be able to communicate with them, to hear them learn, grow, and express themselves verbally. How fortunate, how blessed I am. This overwhelmed me. I can talk to my children, I can respond to their needs and comfort them when they tell me they are unwell. I can tell them stories and hear them tell theirs.

  Kate Winslet

  Children, Blessed, Voice

  Kate Winslet, Margret Ericsdottir (2012). “The Golden Hat: Talking Back to Autism”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• I remember looking at my dad and wanting to understand him. I didn't want to just write the guy off. He was lost. I can't speak specifically in terms of why and how he got to where he was - that was his journey. All I can tell you is, he was overwhelmed by life... My mother basically did all the work, and then they got separated and I didn't see him for a long time. He didn't try to help the family financially or spiritually, and I lived with the effects of the chaos.

  Tom Cruise

  Mother, Dad, Writing

  "The Making (and Remaking) of Tom Cruise: Cover Preview" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. May 25, 2010.

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• We didn't have reruns back then, so when the show ended we thought it was over. I'm overwhelmed by how long the show has been popular and by how many people still love it today. I still watch the reruns and just laugh! Here in Mount Airy they show the Andy Griffith Show at 3:30 in the afternoons and they call it "Andy After School", but the show wasn't just for kids, it was for everyone.

  Betty Lynn

  School, Kids, Laughing

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• Courageous men never lose the zest for living even though their life situation is zestless; cowardly men, overwhelmed by the uncertainties of life, lose the will to live. We must constantly build dykes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Courage, Men, Zest

  Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.120, Beacon Press

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• I was just confused about why I was feeling overwhelmed all the time and trying to adjust to having people work for me. Surprisingly, I think if you're known on the Internet, you're probably an introvert.

  Felicia Day

  Confused, Thinking, People

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• The research they do is incredible. I was overwhelmed. They have a great thing going on out there. In reality, this came from one brother's love for another brother. Seeing the center up in his brother's behalf, it's an unbelievable thought.

  Craig Biggio

  Brother, Reality, Research

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• Growing up in the Pacific Northwest as a young girl, whenever I felt emotionally overwhelmed, I would take a walk in the woods. Being in the stillness and grandeur of trees had always calmed me.

  Brenda Strong

  Girl, Growing Up, Tree

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• A defining moment in my life was my first actual VMA performance… That was the first time in my head I said I made it. Everybody knows who you are now. At that point everything in my life was flawless… I was just overwhelmed, I was happy, I was successful as an artist. I think I was in cruise control – like a little bit of bliss.

  Chris Brown

  Successful, Artist, Thinking

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• I am writing this during my lunch period, because I need to reach towards the outside world of sanity, because I am overwhelmed by the sheer weight of the clerical work still to be done, and because at this hour of the morning normal ladies are still sleeping.

  Bel Kaufman

  Morning, Sleep, Writing

  Bel Kaufman (2012). “Up the Down Staircase”, p.72, Open Road Media

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• Set small goals along the way and don't be overwhelmed by the process.

  Kara Goucher

  Running, Goal, Way

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• The cultural differences between Germany and Nigeria were extreme. The way they dress, the way they carry themselves, their religion. For two years I was overwhelmed.

  Nneka

  Years, Two, Differences

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• This young lady, who instantly overwhelmed me with her kindness, is the ugliest creature I have seen in my entire life, with repulsive Jewish facial features.

  Karl Marx

  Kindness, Young, Creatures

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• There is no point in being overwhelmed by the appalling total of human sufferring; such a total does not exist. Neither poverty nor pain is accumulable.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Pain, Suffering, Doe

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• Why does the left hate free speech? Because they don't know how to talk about the substantive merits when they are challenged. Having submerged themselves in disciplining each other by denouncing any heretics in their midst, they find themselves overwhelmed and outnumbered in America, where there is vibrant debate about all sorts of things they don't know how to begin to talk about. They resort to stomping their feet and shouting "shut up"... when they aren't prissily imploring everyone to be "civil."

  Ann Althouse

  Hate, Feet, America

  "Why does the left hate free speech?" by Ann Althouse, althouse.blogspot.ru. February 3, 2011.

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