I always try not to overload my music with orchestration…

The thing I've learned is it's good to restrict your palette somewhat. I will try and, say, use two or three instruments on one…

— Thighpaulsandra

“Of what use are the instruments [religious practices] if they do not help one attain their goal?”

— Dada Bhagwan

I have just begun a work in which an important part is given to a large chorus and with it I want to use…

— Edgard Varese

“Providence makes use of instruments I'd not touch with a ten-foot pole.”

— Owen Wister

In an age of information overload ... the last thing any of us needs is more information about God. We need the practice of…

— Rachel Held Evans

Normal people have an incredible lack of empathy. They have good emotional empathy, but they don't have much empathy for the autistic kid who…

— Temple Grandin

I see within us all (myself included) the replacement of complex inner density with a new kind of self—evolving under the pressure of information…

— Richard Foreman

An entrepreneur... is a person of action, one who possesses an unnatural overload of two attributes: optimism and determination. Because entrepreneurs are optimistic, they…

— Jim Clifton

When the next big problem comes online, be it the Euro crisis, nuclear proliferation, an overstretched Internet, a killer flu, or any of the…

— John L. Casti

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,…

— Edward Tufte

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

Everyone spoke of an information overload, but what there was in fact was a non-information overload.

— Richard Saul Wurman

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

We have used the Bible as if it was a mere special constable's handbook — an opium-dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while…

— Charles Kingsley

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