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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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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But it turns out its not a big deal. The imports help, but not significantly.
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To some people, not caring is supposed to be cool, commenting is more interesting than doing, and everything is judged and then disposed of in, like, five minutes. I'm not interested in those kinds of people. I like the person who commits and goes all in and takes big swings and then maybe fails or looks stupid; who jumps and falls down, rather than the person who points at the person who fell, and laughs. But I do sometimes laugh when people fall down.
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Usually, if you read a script by somebody else and there's a dense page of stage directions, people just skip through it or speed read it.
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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.
