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• Harmonics are vibrations a fraction of the length of the vibrating string, which add higher-pitched and more complex content to the notes. With a dull instrument, the harmonics die out, but with a sustaining instrument, the harmonics continue to sound along with the fundamental note.

  

  Steve Albini Big Black
  • Higher
  • Fundamentals
  • Dull

• I'm always being told by directors that I add chemistry to scenes, so I mean how difficult could it be?

  

  Zach Braff
  • Mean
  • Directors
  • Add

• I think of the saddest thing I can and then add a sick dog to that. If I think of a sick dog from the beginning, I just stop there.

  

  Sufjan Stevens
  • Dog
  • Sick
  • Saddest

• The writer's job, after all, is not to dictate meaning, but to give the reader enough pieces to create his or her own satisfying meaning. The story is truly finished—and meaning is made—not when the author adds the last period, but when the reader enters the story and fills that little ambiguous space, completing the circuit, letting the power flow through.

  

  Celeste Ng
  • Enough
  • Ambiguous
  • Circuits

• Don't add an eezy to my name, 'cause it has never been that'

  

  Donald Glover
  • Rap
  • Causes
  • Names

• Each day that we live, we're taking in new information, ideas, concepts, experiences, and sensations. We need to consciously stand guard at the doors of our minds to make sure that whatever we're allowing to enter will cause our lives to be enriched, that the experiences we pursue will add to our stockpile of possibility.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Mind
  • Causes
  • Possibility

• You can run like a robot and just go straight, or you can add a bit of personality to it.

  

  Antonio Gates
  • Personality
  • Run
  • Add

• I run, therefore I am. And given the years improved fitness adds to our lives, if I did not run, maybe I would no longer be.

  

  Hal Higdon
  • Running
  • Years
  • Given

• As far as I can see, many people who don’t have ADD are charter members of the Society of the Congenitally Boring.

  

  Edward Hallowell
  • Society
  • Members
  • Charter

• The worst part was that I had things I wanted to tell my mother, too many to count, but none of them would go down so easy. She'd been through too much, between my siters-I could not add to the weight. So instead, I did my best to balance it out, bit by bit, word by word, story by story, even if none of them were true.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Mother
  • Balance
  • Stories

• Ask yourself this question CONSTANTLY: where can I add the most value to what matters most to me and the people who care about me?

  

  Chris Brogan
  • Care
  • Matter
  • Values

• You know, to preserve our job-friendly climate the Texas legislature didn't raise taxes this last legislative session while balancing their budget and maintaining their reserves - and might I add that our budget leaves $6 billion dollars in a rainy day fund?

  

  Rick Perry
  • Climate
  • Friendly
  • Fund

• Pyramiding instructions appear on dollar bills. Add smaller and smaller amounts on the way up. Keep your eye open at the top.

  

  Ed Seykota
  • Eye
  • Instruction
  • Add

• I like to wear classic silhouettes and add a punch to it. I'll wear a high-waist legging and a super-crop top or a see-through top with a nice bra underneath. And I just always try to mix it up with heels or something.

  

  Serena Williams
  • Trying
  • Nice
  • Classic

• Prices impose the most effective kind of rationing - self-rationing. Why is rationing necessary? Because what everybody wants always adds up to more than there is. . .Resources are limited but desires are not. That is the basic and defining problem of economics.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Desire
  • Kind
  • Problem

• Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced.

  

  William Glasser
  • Life
  • Learning
  • Quality

• One large study 127 sets of identical twins and 111 sets of fraternal twins recently found that in 51 percent of the identical sets both twins had ADD, while only 33 percent of those in the fraternal group shared the ADD diagnosis.

  

  Edward Hallowell
  • Study
  • Twins
  • Diagnosis

• There is not built-in meaning to anything, we are free to add any meaning we choose to give it.

  

  Seamus Heaney
  • Giving
  • Built
  • Add

• Difficulty getting organized. A major problem for most adults with ADD. Without the structure of school, without parents around to get things organized for him or her, the adult may stagger under the organizational demands of everyday life. The supposed “little things” may mount up to create huge obstacles. For the want of a proverbial nail—a missed appointment, a lost check, a forgotten deadline—their kingdom may be lost.

  

  Edward Hallowell
  • School
  • Problem
  • Obstacles

• the problems of three little people in a big world don't add up to much

  

  Humphrey Bogart
  • People
  • World
  • Problem

• I would add that I consider myself and how I do things as a kind of system which, by definition, I always follow.

  

  Ed Seykota
  • Kind
  • Definitions
  • Add

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