It turns out that up to 35 percent of people with bipolar disorder also have ADHD.

— Julie A. Fast

Love every child without condition, listen with an open heart, get to know who they are, what they love, and follow more often than you lead.

— Adele Devine

My thoughts are like butterflies. They are beautiful, but they fly away.

— Anonymous

Not enough people realize that ADHD is not a disorder about loss of focus. It is a disorder of loss of emotional control, which is triggered by outside influences, self-esteem and our interpretation of events. Whether this is positive or negative it triggers us to hyper focus on what consumes our thoughts. Staying positive is critical and distancing oneself from hurtful people is essential, in order to live a life with purpose.

— Shannon L. Alder

Oh, and they said I have ADD, too." He lit a cigarette, his first of the day, and took a long, grateful drag. "But listen mate, I once sucked a geezer for twenty minutes to get him off. The clock was just over his shoulder and I timed it. Attention deficit?" He blew out a plume of smoke. "I don't think so.

— S.A. Reid

Other pressing problems with the current medical model [of mental disorder] is that it encourages false epidemics, most glaringly in bipolar disorder and ADHD, and the wholesale exportation of Western mental disorders and Western accounts of mental disorder. Taken together, this is leading to a pandemic of Western disease categories and treatments, while undermining the variety and richness of the human experience.

— Neel Burton

Procrastination is not Laziness," I tell him. "It is fear. Call it by its right name, and forgive yourself.

— Julia Cameron

Sensitive people usually love deeply and hate deeply. They don't know any other way to live than by extremes because their emotional thermostat is broken.

— Shannon L. Alder

Taken together, it’s almost a sure sign. The letters float off the page when you read, right? That’s because your mind is hardwired for ancient Greek. And the ADHD-you’re impulsive, can’t sit still in the classroom. That’s your battlefield reflexes. In a real fight, they’d keep you alive. As for the attention problems, that’s because you see too much, Percy, not too little. Your senses are better than a regular mortal’s.

— Rick Riordan

Technology sometimes encourages people to confuse busyness with effectiveness.

— Douglas B. Reeves