Overstimulation Quotes

• I personally have a background of many days on end of confusion, understimulation, overstimulation, and uncomfortableness with the world around me.

  Mary Lynn Rajskub

  Confusion, World, Ends

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• Now we have to contend with overstimulation and too many opportunities all the time, and too many decisions all the time.

  Elizabeth McGovern

  Opportunity, Decision

  Biography/Personal Quotes, labs.imdb.com.

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• Even in a personal sense, after all, art is an intensified life. By art one is more deeply satisfied and more rapidly used up. It engraves on the countenance of its servant the traces of imaginary and intellectual adventures, and even if he has outwardly existed in cloistral tranquility, it leads in the long term to overfastidiousness, over-refinement, nervous fatigue and overstimulation, such as can seldom result from a life of the most extravagant passions and pleasures.

  Thomas Mann

  Art, Passion, Adventure

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• Remember that introverts react not only to new people, but also to new places and events. So don’t mistake a child’s caution in new situations for an inability to relate to others. He’s recoiling from novelty or overstimulation, not from human contact. Introverts are just as likely as the next kid to seek others’ company, though often in smaller doses

  Susan Cain

  Children, Mistake, Kids

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• Some of my music requires an obsessive-compulsive approach and a real embodiment of excessiveness. So I really have to live in that world of overstimulation. Sometimes I think it's like a drug; more is more, and you can never get enough. The older I get, the more I crave that excessive aesthetic. It's never going to satisfy me.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Real, Thinking, Drug

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. January 31, 2011.

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