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.

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.

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.

I think he would have been proud and smiling... when we laid him to rest because his family was together. I think that was a great gift to be able to give Dad at the end.

One has the responsibility to oneself, to the writer, director and the people who put up the money, to put out the best of what one has experienced and understood about the human condition as it relates to the role one has been hired to portray.

I'm inherently a chameleon... to not evolve is to not live.

Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.

There is a huge shift taking place in the global awareness in the last 5 years with strong views about globalization and the power structures of major corporations.

I believe in music.

There are a few really fantastic stories left and that kind of gives you some inspiration to find even new ones.

If he hadn't done that interview with Bashir, he wouldn't be there now. That was the first time he ever did an interview like that. He was afraid of something like that all along. And it happened.

Type is your brand.

In any business, you have to evolve.

I decided that now is the time to start doing the things that really interest me and I find important. It was in the 10 years of the MacArthur grant that I began working on my first book... and I began putting more work into environmental history.

Nobody should hit .200. Anybody should hit .250.

I'm trying to get into the best shape of my life for 40.

I have been the subject of ridicule. People talk about me and they don't know me and this is an opportunity to tell my story... to have my voice and to set the record straight.

It's man's impact on our world that appeals to me more than just nature running wild.

When Jesus then is with the multitudes, He is not in His house, for the multitudes are outside of the house, and it is an act which springs from His love of men to leave the house and to go away to those who are not able to come to Him.

Change is inevitable except from a vending machine.

There are days where you do everything right and nothing goes in your favour.

Sustainable development is not an option! It is the only path that allows all of humanity to share a decent life on this, one planet. Rio 20 gives our generation the opportunity to choose this path.

I personally have not spoken to Marvel and have no plans to do a movie in the immediate future because, number one, I'm tied up with 'Somnia,' which is a fantastic place to be. It's exactly where I wanted to be.

We're a very expensive group; we break a lot of rules. It's unheard of to combine opera with a rock theme, my dear .

I have relationships. I date. But it takes a lot to say I'm going to be married and have children.

Success is about dedication. You may not be where you want to be or do what you want to do when you're on the journey. But you've got to be willing to have vision and foresight that leads you to an incredible end.

I'm not good at dialogue. I'm not good at holding a mirror up at a real world. I'm not good at believable characterisation.