Edward Hallowell Quotes

While we all need external structure in our lives—some degree of predictability, routine, organization—those with ADD need it much more than most people. They need external structure so much because they so lack internal structure.

Edward Hallowell

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• I fell in love with flora of all types, especially ferns. Loved the sparse structure and repetition of shape - almost fractal.

  

  Jack Dorsey
  • Loved
  • Structure
  • Shape

• But getting your party structure right may also be a precondition for getting your policies right.

  

  Patricia Hewitt
  • May
  • Party
  • Structure

• Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Love
  • Enough
  • Structure

• The UN structure is one-sided, stacked against the world of Islam.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • World
  • Islam
  • Structure

• I have never imputed to Nature a purpose or a goal, or anything that could be understood as anthropomorphic. What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of 'humility.' This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Thinking
  • Nature
  • Purpose

• Set lists are tough because you come up with this structure of how the songs are going to go from one to the next, but at the same time, you have to be spontaneous and take requests and change the set list at the drop of a hat.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Up
  • Time
  • Change

• Procedure is the bone structure of a democratic society. Our scheme of law affords great latitude for dissent and opposition. It compels wide tolerance not only for their expression but also for the organization of people and forces to bring about the acceptance of the dissenter's claim....We have alternatives to violence.

  

  Abe Fortas
  • People
  • Great
  • Society

• It is the stress that holds the structure up.

  

  P. K. Page
  • Up
  • Stress
  • Structure

• A black hole really is an object with very rich structure, just like Earth has a rich structure of mountains, valleys, oceans, and so forth. Its warped space whirls around the central singularity like air in a tornado.

  

  Kip Thorne
  • Black
  • Earth
  • Space

• It happens that there are a lot of people who are very talented who also happen to have a mental disorder. A lot of the mental disorders are initially things that are adaptive. Like even OCD, it's good to sort of have structure and have certain rituals but when it gets to be extreme then it becomes problematic.

  

  H. A. Berlin
  • People
  • Good
  • Structure

• Yes! is the thing that blows the whole structure apart.

  

  U.G. Krishnamurti
  • Blow
  • Whole
  • Structure

• Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?

  

  Hippocrates
  • Brain
  • Structure
  • Foretold

• I don't try to imagine a personal God; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • World
  • God
  • Appreciate

• The wing structure of the hornet, in relation to its weight, is not suitable for flight, but he does not know this and flies anyway.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Structure
  • Wing
  • Hornet

• It was inevitable for people to try to create a sense of normalcy in a place where nothing was normal. It helped one get through the day, to add predictability to a life that was inherently unpredictable.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • People
  • Life
  • Trying

• Normally you'll have a structure to a song. You'll have an intro to a verse to a pre-chorus to a chorus, kinda repeat that, maybe there's a bridge, then you'll go out on a chorus - that's the quintessential song structure - sometimes you might do a fake-out, re-do a pre-chorus but the chorus doesn't come until later, but for the most part you follow these tried and true structures.

  

  Frank Iero My Chemical Romance
  • Song
  • Structure

• The bungalow was a hideous red-brick structure built, if I had to guess, in the early 1980s by some hack architect who’d been aiming at art deco and hit Tracy Emin instead.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Built
  • Structure
  • Architect

• The old structure of the West as a synthesis of classical culture, Christianity, and the impulses of peoples entering history for the Žfirst time has broken down. A new unity, however, has not yet emerged. We stand in this transitional period, this ‘interregnum’ which leaves its mark on every spiritual activity. The Conservative Revolution is conditioned by it, and at the same time sees itself as an attempt to overcome it.

  

  Armin Mohler
  • Unity
  • Activity
  • Structure

• By and large, the gospel of grace is neither proclaimed, understood, nor lived.

  

  Brennan Manning
  • Grace
  • Understood
  • Gospel

• With psychedelics, if you're fortunate and break through, you understand what is truly of value in life. Material, power, dominance, and territory have no value. People wouldn't fight wars, and the whole system we have currently would fall apart. People would become peaceful, loving citizens, not robots marching around in the dark with all their lights off.

  

  Gary Fisher
  • People
  • Fighting
  • Break

• I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates.

  

  A. Scott Berg
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Only

• At the end of the day, I'm not some evil guy.

  

  Thebe Neruda Kgositsile
  • Guy
  • Day
  • Evil

• While we all need external structure in our lives—some degree of predictability, routine, organization—those with ADD need it much more than most people. They need external structure so much because they so lack internal structure.

  

  Edward Hallowell
  • Structure
  • Predictability