Favorite ADD Quotes

[LiLMissADDitude]

Hey everyone this is some of my fav quotes by people with ADD / ADHD. Take a look and add any good ones ya know to the list.

"I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with a soul of a clown which forces me to blow it at the most important moments."
--Jim Morrison


"I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering."
--Steven Wright

"I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers."
--Woody Allen

"Ah! the clock is always slow, It is later than you think."
--Robert W. Service

"On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time."
--George Orwell

"Never do today what you can put off til tomorrow."
--Matthew Browne

"To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk."
--Thomas Edison

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."
--Henry David Thoreau

It's a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word!"
--Andrew Jackson

"Five minutes! Zounds! I have been five minutes too late all my lifetime!"
--Hannah Cowley

"Punctuality is the virtue of the bored."
--Evelyn Waugh, diary entry (Diaries of Evelyn Waugh)

"I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent."
--Publilius Syrus

"Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible."
--FrankZappa

"Something a guy never wants to hear, 'Tim, the school called!"
--Tim Allen


“Imagination is more important than knowledge...”

--Albert Einstein


“Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.”

--Albert Einstein


“You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.”

--Robin Williams


“Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.”

--Thomas A. Edison


“Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of them become real as you can.”

--Frank W. Woolworth


“The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.”

--Agatha Christie


“What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.”

--Dwight D. Eisenhower


“We need men who can dream of things that never were.”

--John F. Kennedy


“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”

--Robert F. Kennedy

“I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the ``dahling'' thing got started?”

--Zsa Zsa Gabor


“The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.”

--Abraham Lincoln


“Imagination rules the world.”

--Napoleon I


“I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea shore and diverting himself and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell that ordinary while the greater ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”

--Isaac Newton


“Let me tell you the secret that has lead me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.”

--Louis Pasteur


“I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colors. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.”

--Sir Winston Churchill


“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.”

--Sir Winston Churchill


“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”

--Pablo Picasso


“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”

--Eleanor Roosevelt


“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”

--George Bernard Shaw


“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”

--George Bernard Shaw


“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or faraway.”

--Henry David Thoreau


“When one door closes another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.”

--Alexander Graham Bell


“I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.”

--Woodrow Wilson


“I dwell in possibilities.”

--Emily Dickinson


“The world belongs to the energetic.”

--Ralph Waldo Emerson


“The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.”

--Robert Frost


“Do not follow where the path may lead...Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”

--Robert Frost

[waywardclam]

I'd contribute but everything I can think of, you've already posted... hehehe

[Garry]

They were great

[Energizer_Bunny]

This is so awesome. I saw a movie that inspired me. "A Walk To Remember". In the book, the girls mother has a journal and it is full of quotes and sayings that she has gotten over the years. Well, for Christmas this past year a co-worker gave me a small journal and in that journal I started writing in quotes that I liked or that inspired me. So thank you so much for adding to my journal.

[Energizer_Bunny]

And I started back to College on the 25th. And believe it or not I have an OCD history professor. I got a kick out of it when he said because I thought that by watching him that I had properly dx'd him. Well anyway, he put this quote on the board and I loved it


"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can not read"

Mark Twain

[LiLMissADDitude]

Wow that journal of yours sounds cool. My mom has this little papertowel holder that sits on the table. It has a bunch of little carboard rectangles with quotes on them. Theres one for each day of the year.

What are you majoring in at school?

I like that Mark Twain quote

[Energizer_Bunny]

Thank you for liking the idea....I thought it was awesome myself when I saw the movie which is well worth watching and have kleenex ready. I am going for my accouting degree. This is my first time back since my diagnosis and on being settled with medication.

[joanrdtobe]

Energizer: I have seen the movie "A Walk to Remember" on T.V. a few times....made me cry.....

Here was my favorite part.....at the end a few years later he goes back to visit the girl's father.....(he has gone to medical school)...and says to the girl's father "she never got her miracle" (or angel)...and he says back to him "you were her miracle" (or angel)......

I too loved your Mark Twain quote...LOVED it....

[LostandFound]

2 of my favorites!


Unslumping yourself is not easily done... Dr. Seuss

How did it get so late so soon?
It's night before
it's afternoon.
December is here before it's June.
My goodness how the
time has flewn.
How did it get so late so soon?

Dr. Seuss

[Lafnalot]

come on guys, I can only write these down so fast

[tiggwin]

Douglas Adams wrote The Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy (imagine a Monty Python version of Starwars.)

There was a point to this story, but it has temporarily escaped the chronicler's mind.
--Douglas Adams

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
--Douglas Adams

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
--Douglas Adams
This last one has nothing to do with ADD; I just like it. I guess you could substitute "meds" for "potoates", removing the humor.

[LostandFound]

Okay, just one more!

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?

You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.

We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us: it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

—Nelson Mandella, from his 1994 Inaugural Speech

[Wheel1975]

Make all the diagnosis you wish. Share them ONLY when paid to do so!

Originally posted by Energizer_Bunny
And I started back to College on the 25th. And believe it or not I have an OCD history professor. I got a kick out of it when he said because I thought that by watching him that I had properly dx'd him. Well anyway, he put this quote on the board and I loved it


"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can not read"

Mark Twain

[auntchris]

Bravo I loved them ...auntchris

[irish guy]

" You can observe a lot by watching " Yogi Berra