Edward Hallowell Quotes
For someone who has ADD, being bored is like being asphyxiated. It cannot be endured for more than a minute or so. When bored, the person with ADD feels compelled to do something immediately to bring the world back up to speed.

Quotes to Explore
-
Paris and Nicky Hilton? Those girls will show up to the opening of a phone book. It's like a big joke.
-
Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead.
-
My calling, as one imperfect human, is to celebrate and uphold life every time I get the chance.
-
My mum had four kids on her own, so if I had one kid with one nanny and not a full-time job, it would be a joke. And I think the impossible happens when you leave your kids. I've seen so many nannies in the park on their phones, and the kids are running off.
-
We want the city back on its feet. We want to have jobs for the city.
-
I'm trying to cultivate a long-term career rather than get every job right this minute. That'd be putting too much pressure on myself. I'd go crazy if I thought like that.
-
I make up my own mind in light of available facts, with my own experience and a sense of personal ethics.
-
I don't really care about plot; I want to have a page-turner in a different kind of way.
-
Mistakes are a part of life; you can't avoid them. All you can hope is that they won't be too expensive and that you don't make the same mistake twice.
-
Y'know, there's nothin' like tearing up a good club now and then.
-
What you keep for yourself, you lose. What you give away, you keep forever.
-
Let mine not be that saddest fate of all To live beyond my greater self; to see My faculties decaying, as the tree Stands stark and helpless while its green leaves fall... "She lives, but all her usefulness is past."
-
Neither from itself nor from another, nor from both, nor without a cause, does anything whatever, anywhere arise.
-
Better to lose oneself in action than to wither in despair.
-
I am sure that there is a lot more going on in the objective real world than we can monitor with our five senses. I think dreams allow us to engage with the real world and monitor the way it is acting on us.
-
The speed with which we in the Congress are going down is sometimes frightening. Government administration in the districts is rapidly reaching a low level. No strong opposition party has been able to emerge.
-
When I was competing, I would run daily 20 kilometers, and in addition to that, I'd put in many hours of fighting and sparring. That's why I was always able to keep the speed in the ring. I would train so hard that sometimes it was not only hard to stand up, but it would also be hard to lay down.
-
I've always been kind of a speed demon.