Research has found that adults with adhd struggle to retain job stability

Identify the disability specialist in the human resources department at your company. This is the person you will provide with documentation of your ADHD and the person who will explain the available workplace accommodations. This person may also work with your supervisor

Gather whatever tools will help you keep track of tasks, goals, deadlines ie MotivAider (habitchange.com), which can be set to vibrate at certain intervals

Find out if there is a company library or online information center that contains resources for further learning on the job

Survey the material Now use the 4Rs: read just one paragraph, recite out loud in a soft voice or whisper what was important in the material, write that material down in your notebook, then review what you just wrote.

walk around the block or the halls, or come up with an excuse to go down to the convenience store in the lobby or around the corner. The activity will improve your focus during the meeting.

Try some cooperative coworker tutoring when you need to learn something substantial on the job: new software, new regulatory codes, new technology. Take turns teaching each other something you or your coworker doesn’t understand.

Find a coworker who will have your back — and do the same for that person. If either of you forgets materials, information, or anything else you need while away from the office, the other will be there to supply it.

Schedule supervisor review meetings more often than at annual or semiannual salary review meetings. Every three to six weeks is a good interval. Meet with a person other than your direct supervisor to get a different perspective on your performance.

Once you know the Romance languages, singing in those languages is so sexy and sensual. I do have a global audience, so why not?

I keep waiting for someone to cast me as the angel or the witch or the immortal of some kind because so much of the reading I do for my own pleasure is fantasy, horror, or sci-fi.

Yeah, I mean, I put work out there for people to use and I'm grateful when you use it.

You go through those awkward, dorky, geeky stages, and growing up in the industry amplifies all that. Fortunately, I have a mother who encouraged me to build my confidence from within and embrace my imperfections.

I'm sure a lot of people don't take me seriously.

When I started work at Simon & Schuster in 1958, each of us got a bronze paperweight on which was written, in raised type, ''Give the reader a break,' Richard E. Simon.

Funny is not a color. Being black is only good from the time you get from the curtain to the microphone.

The music I love listening to is more of the Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, Dido, Jewel, Nora Jones, Joss Stone, a bit more of that organic live-instrumentation feel.

You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

Yes, I see the Mobile Base System really is the shoulder of the arm. The arm is right there, like a human arm. It's really funny to look at the similarities between a human arm and the Canadian robotics arm.

The doctor who diagnosed me with ALS, or motor neuron disease, told me that it would kill me in two or three years.

As I say, I as an abstract artist was active politically.

Even I had no opportunity to conduct very many concerts after World War II.

The visionary who is serving God ceases to live for personal ambitions, but rather for God's ambitions.

I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.

They would wake me up when I was sleeping, and say sing a song for our friends. I had a sweet voice, I had a nice little tenor voice. God knows what I sang, but my whole family would admire me.

Fixed principles of truth are the only safeguard for youth.

I was a mother who worked ridiculously hard to keep catastrophe at bay. I didn't allow my kids to eat hamburgers for fear of E. coli. I didn't allow them to play with rope, string, balloons - anything that might strangle them. They had to bite grapes in half, avoid lollipops, eat only when I could watch them.

I've spent my whole life before coming to Congress as a Chamber of Commerce manager. What that means is you help start small businesses, help them grow in good times and bad.

The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul and of which it never tires.

Bereavement is terrible, of course. And when somebody you love dies, it's a time for reflection, a time for memory, a time for regret.

It's fun to branch out a bit. I feel like I've held a lot of tricks up my sleeve for a lot of years, and 'Ex-Girlfriends' is a good way to show another side of me.

Holiness is not a merit by which we can attain communion with God but a gift of Christ which enables us to cling to him and to follow him.

I am a big believer in letting your own personal freak flag fly.