Best Overabundance Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“If we can tame or restrain our addiction to the blinding overabundance of technical widgets, we can “tool down” our mental frame. It’s, by opening our mind to the infinite potential of the world around, that we can take time for the others and learn to listen and interpret their captivating stories. ("Should I shave first?")”

Mind Addiction Potential Take Time Tame Overabundance The Others Mental Framework Technical Widgets Tool Down

Author:Erik Pevernagie

“Unlimited requests means short-lived fads. Order it, wear it, order the next new thing, toss what you’re wearing in the recycle, and start over. Contentment without end.”

Shallowness Largesse Overabundance Short Attention Span

Book:A Pause in the Perpetual Rotation

Source: A Pause in the Perpetual Rotation

“The monster is bigger than the human. It represents abundance—overabundance. ... It has lots of eyes, extra arms, too many teeth. Everything about it is too many and too much.”

Too Much Horror Monsters Vampires Overabundance

Book:The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

“Anger that grows in the soil of deprivation is a holy fruit, while that which is sewn in the soil of overabundance grows crooked and full of poison.”

Anger Rage Deprivation Overabundance

Book:Reconstruction

Source: Reconstruction

“I still like weird music but there's such an overabundance that it's hard for me to stay enthusiastic about it.”

Stills Hard Enthusiastic Overabundance

Author:Girl Talk

“Of course, they (i. e., demons) had always been observed with some regularity, but that could usually be ascribed to an overabundance of piety or wine or imagination. Take your pick.”

Courses Imagination Picks Wine Demon Piety Regularity Overabundance

Author:Jack McDevitt

“People need things. I don't live a monk's existence, I'm a consumer, but I try to do it to the level that doesn't feel like there's an overabundance of something.”

People Needs Feels Trying Levels Existence Consumers Monk Overabundance

Author:Jamie Lee Curtis

“A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.”

Wealth Attention Poverty Information Productivity Rationality Information Overload Overabundance

Author:Herbert Simon

“I love the Internet, but it's hard not to get lost in it. It's not like a book where you start and get to the end. It's like we've found a way to encapsulate all of human knowledge within one thing only to learn that you can't do that. It's an overabundance of information.”

Way Humans Book Ends Hard Found Lost One Thing Information Internet Human Knowledge Overabundance

Author:Jarvis Cocker

“Photojournalism has become a hybrid enterprise of amateurs and professionals, along with surveillance cameras, Google Street Views, and other sources. What is underrepresented are those "metaphotographers" who can make sense of the billions of images being made and can provide context and authenticate them. We need curators to filter this overabundance more than we need new legions of photographers.”

Needs Made Views Streets Source Cameras Photographer Billions Make Sense Enterprise Google Surveillance Filters Hybrid Legion Curator Photojournalism Overabundance Surveillance Cameras

Author:Fred Ritchin

“This is a nice metaphor, too, about mothers and daughters - that when it came time for me to make my own, I was making a completely different garden than the one that my mom has. They don't look like they came from relatives. Hers is a very productive and pragmatic vegetable garden, and mine is a ridiculous overabundance of useless plants. It doesn't feed anybody, it doesn't serve any purpose.”

“What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.”

Needs Might Spiritual Science Wealth Interesting Attention Poverty Information Source Internet Obvious Rationality Overabundance

Author:Herbert Simon

“We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns.”

Happiness Wealth Money Knowledge Information Gun Weight Confusion Confused Abundance Buried Composer Quantity Monkeys Singer Songwriters Information Overload Being Confused Overabundance

Author:Tom Waits

“The dinosaurs's eloquent lesson is that if some bigness is good, an overabundance of bigness is not necessarily better.”

Ifs Food Lessons Fats Dinosaurs Eloquent Overabundance

Author:Eric Johnston

“What the poor need is not charity but capital, not caseworkers but coworkers. And what the rich need is a wise, honorable and just way of divesting themselves of their overabundance.”

Way Needs Differences Poor Money Rich Wise Charity Philanthropy Honorable Philanthropic Coworker Overabundance

Author:Clarence Jordan

“If there is an ‘overabundance’ of an idea in the absence of direct governmental action - which there well might be when compared with some ideal state of public debate - then action disfavoring that idea might ‘un-skew,’ rather than skew, public discourse.”

Ifs Wells Ideas States Might Action Ideals Direct Absence Debate Discourse Public Discourse Overabundance

Author:Elena Kagan

“What the poor need is not charity, but capital, not caseworkers but coworkers.”

Needs Poor Charity Coworker Overabundance

Author:Clarence Jordan

“Intellect without humanity is not good enough...what the world is suffering from at the present time is not so much an overabundance of intellect as an insufficiency of humanity.”

World Enough Time Suffering Humanity Intellect Good Enough Not Good Enough Present Time Insufficiency Overabundance

Author:Ashley Montagu

“On parochial school I was told I had an overabundance of original sin.”

School Sin Originals Originality Original Sin Overabundance

Author:Susan Sarandon

“Colonialism is a terrible bane for a people upon whom it is imposed, but a blessing for a language. English's drive to exploit the new and the alien, its zeal in robbing words from other languages, its incapacity to feel qualms over the matter, its museum-size overabundance of vocabulary, it shoulder-shrug approach to spelling, its don't-worry-be-happy concern for grammar-the result was a language whose colour and wealth Henry loved.”

Source: Beatrice and Virgil

“There is an overabundance of rational reasons to say no to factory-farmed meat: It is the No. 1 cause of global warming, it systematically forces tens of billions of animals to suffer in ways that would be illegal if they were dogs, it is a decisive factor in the development of swine and avian flus, and so on.”