Top 100 Overload Quotes
#1. Everyone spoke of an information overload, but what there was in fact was a non-information overload.
Richard Saul Wurman
#2. I was not allowed to take spherical trigonometry because I'd sprained my ankle. Because I'd sprained my ankle, I had an incomplete in gym, phys ed. And the rule was that if you had an incomplete in anything, you were not allowed to take an overload.
William Shockley
#3. I have always been a sucker for ballads, but you have to be careful these days, you can't overload people.
Joe Cocker
#4. Here's the general theory: To clarify, add detail. Imagine that. To clarify, add detail. And clutter and overload are not an attribute of information, they are failures of design. If the information is in chaos, don't start throwing out information, instead fix the design.
Edward Tufte
#5. The higher octave light that comes from samadhi, the kundalini of samadhi, this you can absorb continuously. You can never overload. It can never hurt you.
Frederick Lenz
#6. There were so many viciously sarcastic ways to respond, Jaden's brain was temporarily paralyzed due to witty comeback overload.
Courtney Kirchoff
#7. The overload of useless ceremonials and worship have crippled the whole nation. If you want to do good to your nation and yourself, then throw away your ancient ceremonials as far as possible.
Abhijit Naskar
#8. After all, as Edward Tufte once said, "Overload, clutter, and confusion are not attributes of information, they are failures of design.
Golden Krishna
#9. Overload 'em with information an' they'll kill yeh jus' to simplify things.
J.K. Rowling
#10. [On a high school visit by Destiny's Child:] Then they appeared, golden Glamazons resplendent in hot pants the size of a dryer sheet and gold stiletto boots. The kids in the front row, clearly on funkiness overload, had the walleyed look of the Today's Catch section of the supermarket.
Jancee Dunn
#11. The willing horse carries the heaviest burden. Take a care not to overload the willing horse.
Michael Scott
#12. Parts of our genome simply cannot survive a situation where the environment suffers from the full overload of toxins we currently live in.
Kat Lahr
#13. Stress overload makes us stupid. Solid research proves it. When we get overstressed, it creates a nasty chemical soup in our brains that makes it hard to pull out of the anxious depressive spiral.
Gail Sheehy
#14. You can't punish a child who is acting out because of sensory overload.
Temple Grandin
#15. My notion of art is very maximalist and souped-up: I love spectacle, overload, magic materials, magic words, incantation and litany, incarnation and possession, spilling and wounds. Art as a sacred event.
Joyelle McSweeney
#16. Information overload (on all levels) is exactly WHY you need an "ignore list". It has never been more important to be able to say "No
Mani S. Sivasubramanian
#17. Unlimited choice is paralyzing. The Internet has made this form of paralysis due to option overload a standard feature of comfortable modern life.
Susan Orlean
#18. In this time of 'information overload', people do not need more information. They want a story they can relate to.
Maarten Schafer
#19. Sensory overload - I just want to soak myself completely to rid myself of
feeling too much
Tina J. Richardson
#20. When you talk to people who have been in combat, there's a sensory overload that happens. The color becomes vivid. Sounds become more pronounced. People talk about how, for them, the war was technicolor and real life was black and white after the war.
David Ayer
#21. The physical demands of cycling is that it actually lowers your immune system, and you expose yourself to a tremendous amount of elements - so certain people might get a chronic overload and develop, say, bad asthma.
Greg LeMond
#22. Mobile is the future and there's no such thing as communication overload
Eric Schmidt
#23. We went to a Barnes and Noble, where I picked up an unauthorized
biography of M.C. Hammer, and not wanting to overload her on her first
book, I steered Dumb Dumb toward a Choose Your Own Adventure.
Chelsea Handler
#24. There's no such thing as information overload-only filter failure.
Clay Shirky
#25. Testosterone overload?" Merinus gave an unladylike grunt. "More like asshole overload if you ask me.
Lora Leigh
#26. Everything is toxic. That's the point. You can't avoid toxins. Thinking you can is just another symptom of the toxic overload stage.
Jane Smiley
#27. Information overload will lead to 'future shock syndrome' as an individual will suffer severe physical and mental disturbances.
Alvin Toffler
#28. We come from a sensory-overload culture, and so we wonder if one guy on drums and one guy dancing around is enough. Adding guys was something we always were curious about. We decided for this run specifically to stay a two-piece. In the future, we definitely could add members.
Tyler Joseph
#29. The fewer data needed, the better the information. And an overload of information, that is, anything much beyond what is truly needed, leads to information blackout. It does not enrich, but impoverishes.
Peter Drucker
#30. There are moments when mental overload can render words impossible.
Nicholas Sparks
#31. There is no such thing as information overload, just bad design. If something is cluttered and/or confusing, fix your design.
Edward Tufte
#32. Most managers receive much more data (if not information) than they can possibly absorb even if they spend all of their time trying to do so. Hence they already suffer from an information overload.
Russell L. Ackoff
#33. Careful, Sandi. You're about to let your bulldog mouth overload your bird-dog bite.
Peggy Webb
#34. "Point of view" is that quintessentially human solution to information overload, an intuitive process of reducing things to an essential relevant and manageable minimum.. In a world of hyper abundant content, point of view will become the scarcest of resources.
Paul Saffo
#35. Stand on Zanzibar is an information overload on topics that sensible people would never want to learn about.
John Brunner
#36. We overload in our workouts so that the game slows down in real life. It helps you become a smarter basketball player.
Stephen Curry
#37. I was beginning to think I had let 'my alligator mouth overload my jaybird ass.
Hal Needham
#38. Yourself into an information-overload-fueled frenzy, convinced that you could arrange the whole wedding yourself, and eventually killed one of your loved ones in a glue-gun-related mishap
Molly Harper
#39. The circumstances of modern life seem to be conspiring to make experiences less satisfying than they could and perhaps should be, in part because of the richness against which we are comparing our own experiences. Again, as we'll see, an overload of choice contributes to this dissatisfaction.
Barry Schwartz
#40. Without the ability to discern, we stand impotent in an age of information overload.
Anonymous
#41. I daydream often and sometimes my daydreams interrupt my daydreams. So I write to remember them. If I didn't write, I think my mind would explode from an overload of fantasy and weirdness. To the annoyance of my friends and family, my characters sometimes become a part of my world.
Susan Griscom
#42. [T]he problem was too much information. The population was being inundated with conflicting versions of increasingly complex events. People were giving up on understanding anything. The glut of information was dulling awareness, not aiding it. Overload. It encouraged passivity, not involvement.
Jerry Mander
#43. My life has gotten a little more complicated than my ability to describe it. That used to be the definition of madness, now it's just continuous overload.
Bharati Mukherjee
#44. Information overload is a symptom of our desire to not focus on what's important. It is a choice.
Brian Solis
#45. Gut feelings help us filter the world, and what is taste, really, but a kind of cognitive mechanism for managing sensory overload? But
Tom Vanderbilt
#46. Love is all right for those who can handle the psychic overload. It's like trying to carry a full garbage can on your back over a rushing river of piss.
Charles Bukowski
#47. He gave me a feral grin. "Like what you see, dove?" "Nope." I hadn't had sex in eighteen months. Pardon me while I struggle with my hormone overload.
Ilona Andrews
#48. I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.
Abel Korzeniowski
#49. Spring is the sound of birds chirping, the taste of cherry juice, the feel of grass on bare feet, the sight of pink roses and blue skies, and the feel of dandelion fuzz. Spring, in other words, is a welcome, wondrous sensory overload.
Toni Sorenson
#50. It's like being a newborn, this sudden sensory overload of noise, color, smells and gravity after months of quietly floating, encased in relative calm and isolation. No wonder babies cry in protest when they're born.
Chris Hadfield
#51. One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There's always more than you can cope with.
Marshall McLuhan
#53. We tend to select top men for their character and capacity, then overload them according to their willingness.
Clarence Benjamin Jones
#56. Modern day information overload stops us sufficiently engaging with our thoughts.
Sam Owen
#57. The author explores the result of endless choice. It is not only overload, but a profound loss of unity, solidity, and coherence in life.
Os Guinness
#58. Gansey's mind was on overload. He could feel his synapses murdering one another.
Maggie Stiefvater
#59. All I could think of was the phrase my dad's father used to say to him when I was a kid, "Don't let your alligator mouth overload your hummingbird ass," and I think I'd done just that.
Brynn Myers
#60. This overload is edging me further out to sea, I need to put some distances between overkill and me.
Elton John
#61. He was the quintessential bad boy, complete with a ruthlessness that appeared to simmer dangerously close to the surface. Couple that with his devil-may-care swagger and panty-dropping smile, it was a small wonder she hadn't fainted from the sheer emotional overload.
B.B. Cruz
#62. I know of several children and adults (with Asperger's Syndrome) who have reported a considerable reduction in visual sensitivity and sensory overload when wearing Irlen lenses.
Tony Attwood
#64. On the road, it's constant sensory overload, and it's easy to lose track of days and time and to get caught up in the constant giving of yourself.
Chuck Ragan
#65. When the next big problem comes online, be it the Euro crisis, nuclear proliferation, an overstretched Internet, a killer flu, or any of the other possibilities I consider in X-Events, we will suffer a complexity overload.
John L. Casti
#66. The overload makes users less productive and more stressed; thus, there's a need for some solution. Passively ignoring the problem won't work, since bits are still heavy, even if we pretend not to notice.
Mark Hurst
#67. With YouTube - with the Internet in general - you have information overload. The people who don't necessarily get credit are the curators.
Chad Hurley
#68. 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
#69. We have met the Devil of Information Overload and his impish underlings, the computer virus, the busy signal, the dead link, and the PowerPoint presentation.
James Gleick
#70. The experiment suggested a strong correlation "between the number of links and disorientation or cognitive overload," wrote Zhu.
Nicholas Carr
#71. I want to prove that Holst's 'The Planets' can be as much of a sensory overload as a concert by the Grateful Dead, and just as exciting.
Charles Hazlewood
#72. I have a theory about the human mind. A brain is a lot like a computer. It will only take so many facts, and then it will go on overload and blow up.
Erma Bombeck
#73. I diagnosed brain overload and set up a spreadsheet to analyze the situation.
Graeme Simsion
#74. Learn how to say no. Don't let your mouth overload your back.
Jim Rohn
#75. Museums provide places of relaxation and inspiration. And most importantly, they are a place of authenticity. We live in a world of reproductions - the objects in museums are real. It's a way to get away from the overload of digital technology.
Thomas P. Campbell
#76. My emotions overload because there is no hand to hold, there's no shoulder here to lean on; I'm walking all on my own.
Christina Aguilera
#77. We're not in a world of information overload, we're in a world of filter failure.
Michael Lazerow
#78. We also know that the brain can handle only a limited amount of information at a time; at its simplest, we can think of stress as information overload, so when there's too much happening, the brain starts to triage, prioritizing, simplifying, and even plain old ignoring some things.
Emily Nagoski
#79. Too much collagen will damage the skin. You will get collagen overload.
Chris Toumazou
#80. We cling nervously to the melody, but we don't handle it freely, we don't really make anything new out of it, we merely overload it.
Johannes Brahms
#81. When information overload occurs, pattern recognition is how to determine truth.
Marshall McLuhan
#82. The result of information overload is usually distraction, and it dilutes your focus and takes you off your game.
Zig Ziglar
#83. Like electricity running through her body or the thick velvet of magic making everything tingle; she was hot and cold and shivering from both, her sense in total overload.
- City of Ghosts
Stacia Kane
#84. Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
Anatole France
#85. I don't think food safety laws are going to protect you from a third carnitas burrito," Hanson said. "That's not about food safety. It's about pork fat overload.
John Scalzi
#86. The greatest challenge Internet users face is information overload.
James Garner
#88. The formula for knee pain is quite simple: Weak Foundation + Overload = Injury In
Manu Kalia
#89. I was always aware that this whole Earth is on overload.
Ridley Scott
#90. Faced with information overload, we have no alternative but pattern-recognition.
Marshall McLuhan
#91. Oh no, if you really want to be wicked to him, nuke it first. (Geary)
Yeah, but given his reaction to the cupcake, that might overload his taste buds with pleasure and kill him. (Tory)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#92. It's not information overload. It's filter failure.
Clay Shirky
#93. Stop wasting time on Cute Overload! Not getting any younger! Sagittarius:
Michael Murray
#94. The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.
Barbara Bush
#95. Overloading attention shrinks mental control. Life immersed in digital distractions creates a near constant cognitive overload. And that overload wears out self-control.
Daniel Goleman
#96. Information overload has crippled many a dream, and there's an easy fix: focus on what's most important right now.
Kimanzi Constable
#97. She had wild eyes, slightly insane. She also carried an overload of compassion that was real enough and which obviously cost her something.
Charles Bukowski
#98. Do not try to satisfy your vanity by teaching a great many things. Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds; do not overload them. Put there just a spark. If there is some good inflammable stuff, it will catch fire.
Anatole France
#99. In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed.
Patrick Ness
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