Overstimulated Quotes

#1. When I come home, I need to feel instantly disconnected. In the rest of my life, I feel overstimulated. Here, I want things to be serene and unfussy, full of objects I love - but not too many of them.

Nina Garcia

#2. Continuous Partial Attention involves an artificial sense of constant crisis, of living in a 24/7, always-on world. It contributes to feeling stressed, overwhelmed, overstimulated, and unfulfilled; it compromises our ability to reflect, to make decisions, and to think creatively. Not

Sharon Salzberg

#3. Overstimulated, we seek out constrained worlds.

Sherry Turkle

#4. Overstimulated. Light, sound, touch, all had been amped up. He closed his eyes to shut out the excess information and tried to get his senses to slow down.

Carol Shay Hornung

#5. I'm bored way too easily. I'm staring at screens half the day. I need to be overstimulated. And how will that express itself artistically?

Bo Burnham

#6. I loved the study of psychology. I didn't love seeing patient after patient. I was perpetually overstimulated, busy decoding everything I took in.

Laurie Helgoe

#7. I am looking forward enormously to getting back to the sea again, where the overstimulated psyche can recover in the presence of that infinite peace and spaciousness.

C. G. Jung

#8. Sam enjoyed knowledge. The accumulation and distribution of facts gave him a feeling of control, of utility, of the opposite of the powerlessness that comes with having a smallish, underdeveloped body that doesn't dependably respond to the mental commands of a largish, overstimulated brain.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#9. But it is a myth to assume that the larger amount of early stimulation you provide, the more beneficial it will be. The truth is that babies can be overstimulated
which is what many parents, intent on beginning to groom their progeny for college in the cradle, end up doing.

Julius Segal

#10. On the other hand, I had to remind myself that, unlike you, I'm the sort of person whose imagination gets overstimulated from very little. And sometimes I get confused between what I've nakedly perceived and what I've varnished upon that perception.

Joseph Olshan

#11. I've had death threats, but I've never been fearful for my life. Although I have traveled with security since the '60s.

Hugh Hefner

#12. If you shared your happiness with journalists, you shouldn't be surprised if they were interested in your misfortune as well.

Peter Stamm

#13. The new day is almost here, but the old one is still dragging its heavy skirts. Just as ocean water and river water struggle against each other at a river mouth, the old time and the new time clash and blend.

Haruki Murakami

#14. Mia looked over the new bruises on Tric's face, shook her head. 'My brave centurion. Riding in on his charger to save his poor damsel? Hold me, brave sir, I fear I shall swoon.

Jay Kristoff

#15. You can only live to be so old, then you gotta let go.

Karl Pilkington

#16. Though we have less to worry about than previous generations, we have more worry. Though we have it easier than our forefathers, we have more uneasiness. Though we have less real cause for anxiety than our predecessors, we are inwardly more anxious.

Billy Graham

#17. To attract all the beauty of life, spread the fragrance of happiness like a dancing flower of peace.

Debasish Mridha

#18. Your fragrance is always with me.

Jalaluddin Rumi

#19. Just lie back, wench."
She snickered. "Did you call me wench? Well, you certainly dated yourself there, didn't you? Sometimes I forget how old you are. What's your age, anyway? Thirty-seven? Thirty-eight?"
"I'm thirty-three.

Kresley Cole

#20. For I am nothing if not critical.

William Shakespeare

#21. I have only known her for two years. But if you took every memory, every moment, if you stretched them end to end-they'd reach forever.

Jodi Picoult

#22. Monsters almost always are culture's way of working out their fears and are thus inherently incredibly interesting and powerful.

Catherynne M Valente

#23. It's a cruel joke of the universe that the one person who makes me come alive is himself dead. And evil. His very existence defies all moral laws and all known laws of physics.

Kitty Thomas

#24. When you make comedy, you make it for the people and you try to have as many screenings and as many tests and you do focus groups and you read the cards and you try to give the people what they want in this comedy.

Chris Rock