Overwhelming Quotes

• I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you've lost any sense of the constancy of your life. You need firm ground to stand on. From there, you can deal with that change.

  

  Richard Nelson Bolles
  • Work
  • Firm
  • Stressful

• Loosening control of your life into Gods hands brings an overwhelming sense of peace and confidence.

  

  Dan Ellis
  • Control
  • Confidence
  • Loosening

• The probability that we face global warming caused by fossil fuels is now so overwhelming that it is legitimate to doubt the motives of those who deny it.

  

  Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell
  • Global Warming
  • Overwhelming
  • Fuels

• What you need to be a good photographer is an overwhelming curiosity and a good digestion.

  

  Eve Arnold
  • Curiosity
  • Photographer
  • Digestion

• The principles of my works... are the extinction of expression, permanent covering and contemplative tranquillity... My ideal is the completely dark picture, full of some overwhelming silence.

  

  Arnulf Rainer
  • Picture
  • Silence
  • Principles

• None of us truly knows what we'll do when the circumstances become so overwhelming and complex that we can't even tell right from wrong.

  

  Lurlene McDaniel
  • Knows
  • Circumstances
  • Complexes

• Joy is overwhelming fun - fun so big that it overflows your mind, heart, body - as if all of life and love were spilling into you and you were spilling out.

  

  Bernie De Koven
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Joy

• In New York City, it's popular. I used to think to myself, 'Man, there's a lot of gay people out here.' And it had me comfortable: it was like, I can be myself! I used to still try to hide it, until it was really overwhelming - there were just too much girls attracted to me!

  

  Young M.A
  • People
  • Popular
  • Comfortable

• Dinosaur Jr. in their live capacity are a band that put me in a state of such overwhelming rock that it often takes quite a while to come down.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Band
  • Capacity
  • Dinosaurs

• Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion.

  

  James Hubert Blake
  • Friend
  • Envy
  • Overwhelming

• Australians are a fantastic bunch of people but the attention can be overwhelming for someone like me.

  

  Cathy Freeman
  • People
  • Attention
  • Fantastic

• God created us with an overwhelming desire to soar. Our desire to develop and use every ounce of potential He's placed in us is not egotistical. He designed us to be tremendously productive and "to mount up with wings like eagles," realistically dreaming of what He can do with our potential.

  

  Carol Kent
  • Dream
  • Desire
  • Productive

• The idea that competition is pointless is really something that speaks to me, especially in America where competition is really prominent and very overwhelming, and it doesn't bring the best out in you because what's going to push you is to bring others down.

  

  Michel Gondry
  • America
  • Ideas
  • Speak

• The majority of my photos are taken while traveling, because everything feels new and exciting initially. Taking photos is like a way to make sense of the overwhelming.

  

  Nick Zinner
  • Taken
  • Exciting
  • Overwhelming

• In order to know somebody through their words, I mean, it has to be an, it has to be a letter, you know? It has to be a long e-mail. It has to be a five-page hand-written letter, you know, it has to be overwhelming and messy and sloppy as humans are.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Long
  • Mean
  • Hands

• I think I had only been working nine months when I got Star Trek, and it was huge. It was very overwhelming. So that opened my eyes a bit at an early age, kind of how not be frightened when walking into a responsibility of something like villain in Batman, or a Hobbit, or whatever it is.

  

  Tom Hardy
  • Thinking
  • Age
  • Kind

• It's just overwhelming just knowing your dream is here in front of you.

  

  Cappie Pondexter
  • Dream
  • Knowing
  • Fronts

• I keep waiting for things to get back down to whelming, but they stay at overwhelming.

  

  Erin Morgenstern
  • Waiting
  • Overwhelming

• Eros is an ego-overwhelming, boundary dissolving, breakthrough creating force scripted into human life that is pretty intrinsically psychedelic.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Force
  • Creating
  • Boundaries

• It's pretty overwhelming to know that people can call up Moviefone and find out where it's playing.

  

  Monica Keena
  • People
  • Playing
  • Overwhelming

• When I'm stuck for a closing to a lyric, I will drag out my last resort: overwhelming illogic.

  

  David Bowie
  • Stuck
  • Overwhelming
  • Closing

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