Top 39 Hallowell Quotes

#1. Love was a fever that came along a few years after chicken-pox and measles and scarlet fever.

Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

Hallowell Quotes #3822
#2. A fellow's a fool when he marries who don't go to work deliberately to study and understand his wife. Women are awfully understandable if you only go at it right.

Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

Hallowell Quotes #12874
#3. A feeling of loss of control over your own life and a nagging feeling of What am I missing?

Edward M. Hallowell

Hallowell Quotes #33315
#4. Russell Barkley similarly describes the primary problem in ADD as a deficit in the motivation system, which makes it impossible to stay on task for any length of time unless there is constant feedback, constant reward.

Edward M. Hallowell

Hallowell Quotes #42691
#5. While we all need external structure in our lives - some degree of predictability, routine, organization - those with ADD need it much more than most people. They need external structure so much because they so lack internal structure.

Edward M. Hallowell

Hallowell Quotes #96573
#6. Truth out of season was sourer than strawberries at Christmas time.

Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

Hallowell Quotes #97961
#7. Supplementing the far, remote Glory-of-God expression in his face, the glory-of-doughnuts shone suddenly very warmly.

Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

Hallowell Quotes #99502
#8. To tell a person who has ADD to try harder is about as helpful as telling someone who is nearsighted to squint harder.

Edward M. Hallowell

Hallowell Quotes #202917
#9. The time to grant anybody a favor is the day the favor is asked, for that day is the one psychological moment of the world when supply and demand are keyed exacty to each other's limits, and can be mated beatifically to grow old, or die young, together. But after that day
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Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

Hallowell Quotes #208564
#10. The enthusiasm that characterizes our time is, unlike current events, hopeful and, like all enthusiasms, playful. The energy that flashes through our electronics has leapt into most of our bloodstreams and brains.

Edward M. Hallowell

Hallowell Quotes #229409
#11. Because people develop ADT in an effort to cope with the stresses in their lives, and because the symptoms actually help them in the short term, the symptoms are "sticky" and may solidify into firm habits, even when life slows and becomes less stressful.

Edward M. Hallowell

Hallowell Quotes #246756
#12. Hallowell, in his very savvy book Connect, cites the 1979 Alameda

Nicholas Boothman

Hallowell Quotes #297972
#13. If there's - one person on the face of this earth who makes me sick it's the ninny who calls a thing 'improbable' because it happens to be outside his own special, puny experience of life.

Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

Hallowell Quotes #302702
#14. Lips all crude scarlet, and eyes as absurdly big and round as a child's good-by kiss.

Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

Hallowell Quotes #502283
#15. 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.

Edward M. Hallowell

Hallowell Quotes #518484
#16. I have a theory that no child ever does outgrow its ungratified legitimate desires; though subsequent maturity may bring him to the point where his original desire has reached such astounding proportions that the original object can no longer possibly appease it.

Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

Hallowell Quotes #521030
#17. The Pretty Lady's brains were almost entirely in her fingers.

Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

Hallowell Quotes #540789
#18. Provide for her Future - if you can! - That's my motto! - But a man's just a plain bum who don't provide for his own Past!

Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

Hallowell Quotes #650250
#19. 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.

Edward M. Hallowell

Hallowell Quotes #743401
#20. Flow is the doorway to the 'more' that most of us seek.

Ned Hallowell

Hallowell Quotes #768015
#21. ADD is a neurological syndrome whose classic defining triad of symptoms include impulsivity, distractibility, and hyperactivity or excess energy.

Edward M. Hallowell

Hallowell Quotes #849373
#22. When we forgive, the slave we free is ourselves.

Edward M. Hallowell

Hallowell Quotes #867463
#23. If Beauty is excuse enough for Being, it sure takes Plainness then to feel the real necessity for - Doing.

Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

Hallowell Quotes #906953
#24. Now everybody who knows anything at all knows perfectly well that even a business letter does not deserve the paper on which it is written unless it contains at least one significant phrase that is worth waking up in the night to remember and think about.

Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

Hallowell Quotes #928442
#25. Sorrow in the tongue will talk itself cured, if you give it a chance; but sorrow in the eyes has a wicked, wicked way now and then of leaking into the brain.

Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

Hallowell Quotes #940323
#26. To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of this weary pilgrimage." ~Samuel Johnson

Edward M. Hallowell

Hallowell Quotes #968692
#27. I wish I could have lived just one day when the world was new. I wish - I wish I could have reaped just one single, solitary, big Emotion before the world had caught it and - appraised it - and taxed it - and licensed it - and staled it!

Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

Hallowell Quotes #1084685
#28. Marriage is not for me. I tell you that I am Blank Verse. I am talent, and I do not rhyme with Love. I am talent and I do not rhyme with man.

Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

Hallowell Quotes #1227708
#29. My thoughts are like butterflies. They are beautiful, but they fly away.

Edward M. Hallowell

Hallowell Quotes #1357808
#30. Forgiveness takes intelligence, discipline, imagination, and persistence, as well as a special psychological strength, something athletes call mental toughness and warriors call courage.

Edward M. Hallowell

Hallowell Quotes #1425246
#31. One was a Cartoon Artist with a heart like chiffon and a wit as accidentally malicious as the jab of a pin in a flirt's belt.

Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

Hallowell Quotes #1461630
#32. Forgiving yourself means that you give up on your hope that the past will be different.

Edward M. Hallowell

Hallowell Quotes #1466392
#33. The best reason to take your time is that this time is the only time you'll ever have.

Edward M. Hallowell

Hallowell Quotes #1512080
#34. Always valuable, your attention has now also become one of your most insecure assets and most-sought-after possessions.

Edward M. Hallowell

Hallowell Quotes #1642045
#35. Most adults with ADD are struggling to express a part of themselves that often seems unraveled as they strive to join the thought behind unto the thought before.

Edward M. Hallowell

Hallowell Quotes #1777169
#36. In order to do what really matters to you, you have to, first of all, know what really matters to you.

Edward Hallowell

Hallowell Quotes #1794869
#37. Oh any sentimental person can cry at night, but when you begin to cry in the morning - to lie awake and cry in the morning - ...

Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

Hallowell Quotes #1812994
#38. As far as I can reckon, a woman can stand absolutely anything under God's heaven that she knows; but she just up and can't stand the littlest, teeniest, no-account sort of thing that she ain't sure of. Answers may kill 'em dead enough, but it's questions that eats 'em alive.

Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

Hallowell Quotes #1818861
#39. A heightened distractibility and a persistent feeling of being rushed or in a hurry, even when there's no need to be, combined with a mounting feeling of how superficial your life has become: lots to do, but no depth of thought or feeling.

Edward M. Hallowell

Hallowell Quotes #1863390

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