31 Quotes by Edward M. Hallowell

Your reflex to help others starts to control you if you don’t understand what’s happening and take steps to prevent it.

Instead of describing ADD as an inability to concentrate, this model presents it as the ability to concentrate on everything. The world always is alive and ripe with sources of interest.

People with ADD often have a special “feel” for life, a way of seeing right into the heart of matters, while others have to reason their way along methodically.

Mastery means making progress at a task that matters to you and is challenging.

ADD is a neurological syndrome whose classic defining triad of symptoms include impulsivity, distractibility, and hyperactivity or excess energy.

Eldredge has just said gives a pretty good short description of ADD: You don’t mean to do the things you do do, and you don’t do the things you mean to do.

That’s the problem with being an adult: people have already made up their minds about us; we’ve even made up our minds about ourselves.

In the world of ADD, there are only two times: there is now, and then there is not now.

Whatever you do, please don’t think of sleep as wasted time, an indulgence, or a generous reservoir from which you can steal time for work. Do what your brain and body beg you to do: get enough sleep.