Russell Barkley Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Paradoxically, without self-control you can't be free.

Russell A. Barkley

#3. It always surprises me when donors who operate successful businesses assume that just building a school structure means that a community now has access to education. When creating a business, does renting an office space now mean that you're producing goods, training staff and generating revenues?

Adam Braun

#4. I really like to experiment. That's the only way I can work. It's instinctive.

F. Murray Abraham

#5. Although Garfield was dangerously ill, the idea of taking him to a hospital was never considered. Hospitals were only for people who had nowhere else to go. "No sick or injured person who could possibly be nursed at home or in a medical man's private residence,

Candice Millard

#6. Our country in general assumes that "the pursuit of happiness" really means "the pursuit of pleasure" and that therefore pleasure is the greatest good.

Madeleine L'Engle

#7. I'm going to get hated for saying this, but honestly, fantasy is easy to write because you can do anything. It's like when Raymond Chandler brings in a bloke with a gun when he's stuck - in fantasy, up pops a wizard, and off we go.

Mal Peet

#8. ADHD is not about knowing what to do,
but about doing what one knows.

Russell Barkley

#9. In friendship, words can go unspoken yet you still understand.
That's why I'm sure that even though I don't say it, you know how special you are to me.

John

#10. The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to live with purpose.

Michel De Montaigne

#11. Science is showing us that there are neurological (brain) factors that contribute to self-control and willpower, along with learning and upbringing. And when these brain systems are functioning improperly or become damaged, normal levels of self-control and willpower are impossible.

Russell Barkley

#12. The history of cooking is my passion, and cooking is my passion.

Jose Andres

#13. The novelist has brought us to that state, in which, as in all purely mental states, every emotion is multiplied tenfold, into which his book comes to disturb us as might a dream, but a dream more lucid, and of a more lasting impression than those which comes to us in sleep;

Marcel Proust

#14. No one can ever heap enough insults upon me to suit my taste. I think we all really thrive on hostility, because it's the most intense kind of massage the ego can undergo. Other people's indifference is the only horror.

Paul Bowles

#15. I have a good memory. But I would be interested in memory even if I had a bad memory, because I believe that memory is our soul. If we lose our memory completely, we are without a soul.

Umberto Eco

#16. For I have never wanted a lover, but I have always wanted to love, and to be loved.

David Levithan

#17. The kids who need the most love will ask for it in the most unloving ways

Russell Barkley