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 Copy Share Image
We have used the Bible as if it was a mere special constable's handbook — an opium-dose for keeping beasts of burden… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Everyone spoke of an information overload, but what there was in fact was a non-information overload. — Richard Saul Wurman Copy Share Image
Here's the general theory: To clarify, add detail. Imagine that. To clarify, add detail. And clutter and overload are not an attribute… — Edward Tufte Copy Share Image
When the next big problem comes online, be it the Euro crisis, nuclear proliferation, an overstretched Internet, a killer flu, or any… — John L. Casti Copy Share Image
An entrepreneur... is a person of action, one who possesses an unnatural overload of two attributes: optimism and determination. Because entrepreneurs are… — Jim Clifton Copy Share Image
I see within us all (myself included) the replacement of complex inner density with a new kind of self—evolving under the pressure… — Richard Foreman Copy Share Image
Normal people have an incredible lack of empathy. They have good emotional empathy, but they don't have much empathy for the autistic… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
In an age of information overload ... the last thing any of us needs is more information about God. We need the… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
I want to prove that Holst's 'The Planets' can be as much of a sensory overload as a concert by the Grateful… — Charles Hazlewood Copy Share Image
I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary. — Abel Korzeniowski Copy Share Image
Unlimited choice is paralyzing. The Internet has made this form of paralysis due to option overload a standard feature of comfortable modern… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
As far as stimulus from the visual arts specifically, there is today in most of us a visual appetite that is hungry,… — John Walford Copy Share Image
When you talk to people who have been in combat, there's a sensory overload that happens. The color becomes vivid. Sounds become… — David Ayer Copy Share Image
Were we to aim in every case at the kind of supreme beauty exemplified by Sta Maria della Salute, we should end… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
The fewer data needed, the better the information. And an overload of information, that is, anything much beyond what is truly needed,… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
We cling nervously to the melody, but we don't handle it freely, we don't really make anything new out of it, we… — Johannes Brahms Copy Share Image
“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… — John Brunner Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as information overload, just bad design. If something is cluttered and/or confusing, fix your design. — Edward Tufte Copy Share Image
I come from a tradition of Western culture, in which the ideal (my ideal) was the complex, dense, and 'cathedral-like' structure of… — Richard Foreman Copy Share Image
The G20 was established as a forum to discuss, first and foremost, world economic issues. If we load it with... Of course,… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
The type of work I do is more like CrossFit, so I do track workouts, and I do boxing workouts. So it's… — Adrian Peterson Copy Share Image
