Steve Jones Quotes

I have ADD. I can't pay attention to one thing too long.

I'm so ADD.

I tend to be really spacey, but I don't think it's because I'm unintelligent - it's just my imagination and a little bit of ADD.

I have extreme ADD.

My nephew has HDADHD. High Definition Attention Deficit Disorder. He can barely pay attention, but when he does it's unbelievably clear.

I wasn't dyslexic, I was just very slow. I passed my time daydreaming.

I'm kind of A.D.D., and so my mind wanders a lot.

As Americans, which I suffer from myself, we have ADD.

I can multitask like crazy. I'm riddled with ADD - a blessing and a curse.

That's the problem with ADHD: I have no focus; I get bored.

If I were put into a college lecture hall right now and told to pay attention for 45 minutes, it would be physically impossible for me to do. I'm one of those people who believe that ADD is a gift. It's tough to manage, but if you can harness it you can do great things.

Everyone I know has attention deficit, and they say it with great pride. It's a bad time to be right.

I struggle as a writer, and I'm convinced that if I was at school now, I'd be termed as having ADS. Two minutes and I'm drifting.

I do have ADD and in real life, I'm all over the place and can hardly focus. If we were talking for, for more than an hour or so, I'd start drifting off... I can't sit still too long.

When nobody read, dyslexia wasn't a problem. When most people had to hunt, a minor genetic variation in your ability to focus attention was hardly a problem, and may even have been an advantage. When most people have to make it through high school, the same variation can become a genuinely life-altering disease.

I'm sure a psychologist would see something highly significant in how absent-minded I am. I mean I'd forget my head if it wasn't attached to my neck by muscles, ligaments and my esophagus.

I have trouble with any kind of focus or concentrating, or getting anything done at all, really.

My laziness is really profound. I'm really interested in where it comes from - it almost feels chemical. And we've all got ADD now, short attention span and all that.

One of my personality defects, perhaps, is that I'm rather ADD, and I work on a bunch of things at once.

I'm dyslexic, although they didn't have a word for it when I was in grade school. The teachers said I had 'word blindness.'

I probably went all the way to junior high school before a school doctor told me that I was 'dyslexic.'

I have severe ADD, and I'm constantly looking to amuse myself.

I've got a funny way of looking at things. It's because I'm dyslexic, and I was diagnosed with ADD when I was younger. And I'm left-handed as well.

I had this chronic hyperactivity and an inability to focus, so I was forever being moved to another class, with a much smaller group of children - some of them about 18. If I was asked to read a paragraph, this white wall would go up in my head. Still now, I read very slowly and can rarely work out a tip.

I just can't read, the way other people can, these tediously elaborated books.