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Overload Quotes

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Criss Jami
“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, Venus in Arms
tags: access, age, confusion, eye, information, information-overload, internet, issue, junkies, media, mind, mind-control, mind-pollution, mobile, news, overload, overwhelming, storm, technology, too-much, world
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J. Maarten Troost
“It was as if the sensory overload that is American life had somehow led to sensory deprivation, a gilded weariness, where everything is permitted and nothing appreciated.”
― J. Maarten Troost
tags: american-life, escapism, overload
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John Brunner
“It's not because my mind is made up that I don't want you to confuse me with any more facts. It's because my mind isn't made up. I already have more facts than I can cope with. So SHUT UP, do you hear me? SHUT UP!”
― John Brunner, The Shockwave Rider
tags: overload
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Steven Magee
“The future of the next generation relies on astronomers obtaining a full understanding of
the rapidly changing human environmental conditions and the halting of biologically toxic corporate
government policies. The overloading of the electromagnetic environment is one of these disastrous
policies that must stop.”
― Steven Magee
tags: astronomer, astronomical, astronomy, biological, biological-needs, biological-terrorism, climate, climate-change, climate-change-denial, climate-crisis, climate-denial, climatechange, conditions, corporate, corporate-culture, corporate-ethics, corporate-greed, disaster, disaster-capitalism, electromagnetic, electromagnetic-radiation, electromagnetic-theory-of-light, electromagnetic-wave, environment, environmental, environmental-conservation, environmental-degradation, environmental-protection, environmentalism, future, future-generation, future-generations, future-inspirational, future-of-man, generation, generations, generations-intelligence-wisdom, global-awakening, global-warming, government, government-abuse, government-corruption, government-cover-ups, government-propaganda, government-regulation, overload, policies, policy, stop, stopping, toxic, toxicology, understanding, understanding-life, understanding-the-nature-of-god
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“A modern man registers a hundred times more sensory impressions than an eighteenth-century artist”
― Fernand Leger
tags: mankind, overload, senses
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Israelmore Ayivor
“Stop over-loading yourself with numberless tasks. Give time to yourself for rest and positive deliberations. You can’t think better and plan better when you are under stress!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
tags: better, deliberate, deliberation, food-for-thought, israelmore-ayivor, leisure, multiple-priorities, over-load, over-loading, overload, plan, positive, positive-deliberations, rest, sleep, sleeping, stop, stress, stress-management, take-a-rest, tasks, think
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Cal Newport
“The relentless overload that’s wearing us down is generated by a belief that ‘good’ work requires increasing busyness—faster responses to email and chats, more meetings, more tasks, more hours.”
― Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
tags: busyness, good-work, hours, overload, relentless
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Cal Newport
“This philosophy rejects busyness, seeing overload as an obstacle to producing results that matter, not a badge of pride.”
― Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
tags: busyness, matter, overload, philosophy, pride, rejects, results
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Rafael Sabatini
“You behold him at the age of four-and-twenty stuffed with learning enough to produce an intellectual indigestion in an ordinary mind.”
― Rafael Sabatini, Scaramouche
tags: learning, overload, scaramouche
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Dexter Palmer
“The constant clamor of the booths and barkers served as an exhausting reminder that he had to choose a fate, and that no matter which fate he chose he could be certain that it would not be the best, that in other timelines rendered inaccessible with each spent coin, other versions of himself would be having more fun, or winning golden ribbons, or becoming taller. The thought was unbearable.”
― Dexter Palmer, The Dream of Perpetual Motion
tags: choice, choices, dexter-palmer, overload, overwhelmed, possibilities, the-dream-of-perpetual-motion, versions
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Vachel Lindsay
“In a whirlwind world, independent languor becomes a virtue, and meditation engenders a finer art than any nervousness”
― Vachel Lindsay, The Golden Book of Springfield
tags: hectic, overload
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Steven Magee
“When I was commissioning a brand new solar photovoltaic utility site, I came across metal tubes installed into the fuseholders that were marked up as 100 amp fuses on the diagram. Needless to say, it had already gone on fire.”
― Steven Magee
tags: commission, electrical, fire, fuse, fuseholder, heat, metal, overheat, overload, photovoltaic, solar, solar-energy, solar-power, solar-pv, solar-system, tube, utilities, utility
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“Everyday we are innudated with exciting string of events on social media and news, even suffer sensory overload at times. Keep it simple; embrace one thing at a time”
― Val Uchendu
tags: events, exciting, news, overload, simple-quote, social-media, time-quotes, wisdom-quotes
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“A great book can feed your soul in a world where the overload of misinformation can break you”
― N.g
tags: autistic, overload, power-of-books, soul
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Tif Marcelo
“If this had been last week, she would have taken a picture of this closet and then slumped into a chair and spent too much time composing a message to accompany it. Now, she had neither the time nor the emotional bandwidth to do it.”
― Tif Marcelo, Once Upon a Sunset
tags: emotional, emotions, overload, shared-experiences, social-media
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Thatcher Wine
“Our eyes are the portal into our brains for most of the information that we take in. Those who profit from our attention — including advertisers, media companies, and app designers — know this, and so there are a lot of forces vying for our eyeballs at all times.”
― Thatcher Wine, The Twelve Monotasks: Do One Thing at a Time to Do Everything Better
tags: advertising, attention, mindfulness, overload, overstimulation, seeing
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Steven Magee
“The solar industry has built the largest solar radiation monitoring system in the world. They call the large surges in solar radiation levels ‘The Cloud Effect’. It is far more extensive and is actually called ‘Environmental Lensing Of Solar Radiation’. The environmental solar lensing is known to overload solar power systems and blow fuses.”
― Steven Magee
tags: blow-fuses, cloud, cloud-effect, environmental-lensing, lensing, overload, radiation, solar, solar-radiation, surges
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