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.Edward Hallowell
Quotes to Explore
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Paris and Nicky Hilton? Those girls will show up to the opening of a phone book. It's like a big joke.
Rachel Perry -
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.
Omar N. Bradley -
My calling, as one imperfect human, is to celebrate and uphold life every time I get the chance.
Victoria Moran -
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.
Abbey Clancy -
We want the city back on its feet. We want to have jobs for the city.
Manuel Moroun -
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.
Tamsin Egerton
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I make up my own mind in light of available facts, with my own experience and a sense of personal ethics.
Ian Anderson -
I don't really care about plot; I want to have a page-turner in a different kind of way.
Barry Hannah -
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.
Lee Iacocca -
Y'know, there's nothin' like tearing up a good club now and then.
Jerry Lee Lewis -
What you keep for yourself, you lose. What you give away, you keep forever.
Axel Munthe -
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."
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Neither from itself nor from another, nor from both, nor without a cause, does anything whatever, anywhere arise.
Nagarjun -
Better to lose oneself in action than to wither in despair.
Kate Morton -
I am strong against everything, except against the death of those I love. He who dies gains; he who sees others die loses.
Alexandre Dumas -
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.
Fedor Emelianenko -
If Germany is to become a colonizing power, all I say is, God speed her! She becomes our ally and partner in the execution of the great purposes of Providence for the advantage of mankind.
William E. Gladstone -
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.
Edward Hallowell