Overwhelmed Quotes - Page 13

• If I couldn't get published tomorrow I'd still be writing. It's something to do with feeling so overwhelmed by this experience of life that you have to tell someone about it, and in a way that reorders the experience to make it manageable.

  Graham Joyce

  Writing, Feelings, Way

  "The magus of the Midlands", www.theguardian.com. October 20, 2000.

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• I loved teaching. It was my world. I only left because I was overwhelmed with three careers - teaching, writing, and my family.

  Patricia Reilly Giff

  Teaching, Writing, Careers

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• Sometimes when we get overwhelmed we forget how big God is.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Sometimes, Forget, Bigs

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• Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Children, Married, Producers

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• Work addiction seems to be an addiction we are proud of. We almost seem to brag with mock displeasure that we are "overwhelmed" with busyness, sometimes as an excuse for not really being able to do what we really want to be doing. Work addiction is a symptom not of working your brains out but of your brain working you out. Why are you doing what you're doing for a career and how do you like doing it? Do you like your answer?

  Paul Pearsall

  Careers, Addiction, Brain

  Paul Pearsall (1988). “Super joy: in love with living”, Doubleday Books

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• Blackened skeleton arms of wood by the wayside pointed upward to the convent, as if the ghosts of former travellers, overwhelmed by the snow, haunted the scene of their distress. Icicle-hung caves and cellars built for refuges from sudden storms, were like so many whispers of the perils of the place; never-resting wreaths and mazes of mist wandered about, hunted by a moaning wind; and snow, the besetting danger of the mountain, against which all its defences were taken, drifted sharply down.

  Charles Dickens

  Taken, Skeletons, Wind

  Charles Dickens (2009). “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: Little Dorrit”, p.448, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Making sweeping statements such as 'no sweets ever again' has never worked before, and it's not going to work now. You'll get quickly overwhelmed and punt on any positive momentum you created.

  Jude Bijou

  Sweet, Momentum, Going To Work

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• Most people get overwhelmed by the insignificant decisions of their lives. I'm urging people to minimize the time spent on these when they're not critical to their most important goals.

  Robert Pozen

  People, Goal, Decision

  "How To Delegate Responsibility To Other People" by Aimee Groth, www.businessinsider.com. January 18, 2013.

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• I am thrilled yet overwhelmed. There are so many great women athletes, some incredible performances.

  Nancy Greene

  Athlete, Incredibles, Great Women

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• Your body is an absolute mirror of your mind. As you worry, your body shows it. As you love, your body shows it. As you are overwhelmed, your body shows it. As you are angry your body shows it. Every cell of your body is being allowed or resisted by the way you feel. 'My physical state is a direct reflection of how I feel', instead of 'How I feel is a direct reflection of my physical state'.

  Esther Hicks

  Philosophy, Love You, Reflection

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• Science has produced such powerful weapons that in a war between great powers there would be neither victor nor vanquished. Both would be overwhelmed in destruction.

  John Boyd Orr

  Powerful, War, Weapons

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• I think Facebook's biggest problem is the glut of information that Facebook's power users are overwhelmed with.

  Sean Parker

  Thinking, Information, Problem

  "Facebook power users 'have gone to Google+ and Twitter'" By Emma Barnett, www.telegraph.co.uk. October 18, 2011.

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• You stand on the edge of eternity, with a vista that is so incredible, so powerful, so perfect that it's overwhelming. You are so overwhelmed - you no longer exist.

  Frederick Lenz

  Powerful, Buddhism, Perfect

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• I've been overwhelmed; I was a single mother for a time.

  Kelly Lynch

  Mother, Single Mother

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• In the age of technology there is constant access to vast amounts of information. The basket overflows; people get overwhelmed; the eye of the storm is not so much what goes on in the world, it is the confusion of how to think, feel, digest, and react to what goes on.

  Criss Jami

  Fear, Eye, Technology

  Criss Jami (2012). “Venus in Arms”, p.22, Criss Jami

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• I used to listen to 'Perfect Day' by Hoku every single day in high school! 'On this perfect day, nothin' standin' in my way... Don't you try to rain on my perfect day.' It pumped me up when I was feeling down or defeated, whether it was from the cool kids making me feel left out or feeling overwhelmed with homework and mean teachers.

  Kara Lindsay

  Teacher, Rain, Mean

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• I remember being in high school and listening to Vivaldi's 'Winter' and being so overwhelmed with emotion.

  Sara Zarr

  School, Winter, Listening

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• I'm happy that I have my family, and I'm happy that I had Virginia, where I grew up, to retreat to any time I felt overwhelmed. Whenever there were times when I felt like the rug was being pulled out from under me and I was floating in this crazy space, I would stop and go back to that neighborhood and realize nothing's changed, really.

  Dave Grohl

  Crazy, Virginia, Space

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• I always jest to people, the Oval Office is the kind of place where people stand outside, they're getting ready to come in and tell me what for, and they walk in and get overwhelmed in the atmosphere, and they say, man, you're looking pretty.

  George W. Bush

  Men, People, Office

  President Bush's Press Conference, www.washingtonpost.com. November 4, 2004.

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• Indeed, the very first acknowledgment (as far as I am aware) of the attraction of mutilated bodies occurs in a founding description of mental conflict. It is a passage in The Republic, Book IV, where Plato’s Socrates describes how our reason may be overwhelmed by an unworthy desire, which drives the self to become angry with a part of its nature.

  Susan Sontag

  Plato, Book, Self

  Susan Sontag (2013). “Regarding the Pain of Others”, p.96, Macmillan

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• Depict a leader who seemed overwhelmed and rarely made key decisions.

  Charlie Melancon

  Keys, Decision, Leader

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• I get overwhelmed when I approach things intellectually.

  Keegan-Michael Key

  Approach

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• The energy crisis has not yet overwhelmed us, but it will if we do not act quickly. It's a problem that we will not be able to solve in the next few years, and it's likely to get progressively worse through the rest of this century. We must not be selfish or timid if we hope to have a decent world for our children and grandchildren. We simply must balance our demand for energy with our rapidly shrinking resources. By acting now we can control our future instead of letting the future control us.

  Jimmy Carter

  Children, Selfish, Years

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• I hiked around town, the air sweet and dry, and was sort of overwhelmed by the perfection of it -- the old courthouse, the train depot, Mount [Jumbo] and Mount Sentinel rising up, the neon bars, the funky festivity of a college town .

  Garrison Keillor

  Sweet, College, Air

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• When the Eagle landed on the moon, I was speechless—overwhelmed, like most of the world. Couldn't say a word. I think all I said was, 'Wow! Jeez!' Not exactly immortal. Well, I was nothing if not human.

  Walter Cronkite

  Moon, Thinking, Eagles

  "Walter Cronkite: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. July 17, 2009.

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