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
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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.
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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.
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My calling, as one imperfect human, is to celebrate and uphold life every time I get the chance.
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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.
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We want the city back on its feet. We want to have jobs for the city.
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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.
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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.
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I don't really care about plot; I want to have a page-turner in a different kind of way.
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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.
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Y'know, there's nothin' like tearing up a good club now and then.
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What you keep for yourself, you lose. What you give away, you keep forever.
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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."
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Neither from itself nor from another, nor from both, nor without a cause, does anything whatever, anywhere arise.
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Better to lose oneself in action than to wither in despair.
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You know, when I did 'American Idol' the three times, I tried to tell these kids you have to tell the story of the lyric.
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What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the Cold War?
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Competition is like a treadmill. If you stand still, you get swept off. But when you run, you can never really get ahead of the treadmill and cover new terrain - so you never run faster than the speed that is set.
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You may have heard of the Slow Movement, which challenges the canard that faster is always better. You don't have to ditch your career, toss the iPhone, or join a commune to take part. Living 'Slow' just means doing everything at the right speed - quickly, slowly, or at whatever pace delivers the best results.
