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.

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

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.

It's good to have a leader, otherwise we argue too much.

In places where this beauty has already disappeared, we will reconstruct it.

No, my father passed away when I was 13 years old. I was very young.

I just wanted to play tennis. I started because I wanted to pick up another sport and then as I was slowly getting better I wanted to see how far I can go but I always wanted to be myself. I wanted to be original. I didn't want to copy anybody's style.

Many scientists and economists also say putting a price on carbon through carbon taxes and/or cap-and-trade is necessary.

Me, myself, I was a part of gang bangin', you know what I'm sayin'?

What youre supposed to do when you dont like a thing is change it. If you cant change it change the way you think about it. Dont complain.

A creep is someone who claims he's one thing but he's actually another.

When this space walk will be completed, then the arm will be fully operational and ready for the next activity that will be pretty much the testing, the first flight testing of the space station arm.

If you have everything under control, you're not moving fast enough.

For being in a place that's landlocked, Minnesotans have a real sense of the wider world. Teachers, friends, neighbors - everywhere I went in Minnesota, people put their heads up and looked out to the horizon.

When you play a doctor, you have to look like you can do it but you don't actually go and do it. It's not like you learn how to cut open somebody and go do surgery. You have to think of a human being and not play the idea of what that would look like.

Do you know what the overhead is of the Medicare system? One-point-zero-five percent. Do you know what - private insurance is 30 percent in overhead and profits? Given a choice how I'm going to improve health care, I'm going to take it away from private insurance profits and overhead. Wouldn't you?

I think glamour is synonymous with me.

I don't get very involved in the L.A. scene. When you do get invited out, you are expected to be on all the time. It's just wearying.

I have a profound resistance to the idea that a reader could say, 'Oh, well, that's her story.' We should all be interested, no matter where we come from, or who our parents are. It's not my province; it's ours. These questions concern us all.

The civil rights movement didnt begin in Montgomery and it didnt end in the 1960s. It continues on to this very minute.

If a great outfit gets you one step closer to feeling good about yourself, then it's worth every penny.

A lot of my buddies also played golf, but when it came to going to the beach or on the boat and chasing girls, they usually went that way and I went to the golf course.

When we started off it was all nervous energy and we probably played everything twice as fast as we do now.

I was either going onstage or going into an interview or getting on a plane. You can't really feel everything fully when you don't have the time to process.

I have two older brothers, and they were a huge part of life; we were very close. We used to run around and get into trouble. That's what I came from - that exploring nature.

The reflexive allergy to L.A. that a lot of New Yorkers have, I feel like it's kind of nonsense.

And the reason for focusing on that time frame is that it's going to take us a considerable period of time to develop the new capabilities, processes and organizations that will be needed.