Attention Deficit Disorder Quotes

I'm a spazzer, you know?

I have OCD mixed with ADD; you try living with that.

I'm easily distracted by other things in the world around me.

I'm dyslexic, I have attention-deficit disorder, and I've got something like a hereditary tremor.

It's hard for me to sit still in one place. I like to move around.

'Deal or No Deal' works nicely with my ADD/ADHD symptoms. I show up, meet the contestants, and move around the set. I'm not stuck behind a pedestal reading trivia questions. I've always had problems sitting still and listening for long periods of time. The show spares me these challenges. I can live in the moment. It's like a standup act.

I was very disruptive. I was horrible. I didn't learn like all the other kids. I had to sometimes take my tests out in the hallways because I couldn't focus. But, my teachers would come see me in the plays and were like 'I don't understand how you can focus and be in the moment in a play and you go into math class and you can't focus.'

In an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. What information consumes is rather obvious: the attention of its recipients.

I used to drum on the table at school. I think a handful of my school reports say that they thought I might have some kind of ADD.

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

I'm not really one for reading books. I have a very poor attention span. I'd rather listen to music, play games or watch films on my iPad.

My brother has ADD, which is weird because he drives a Ford Focus. I told my brother that joke but he didn't laugh because he got distracted by my shoe strings.

The problems with kids having short attention spans is driven by entertainment, reset buttons on games, games having to do with getting somewhere and heads blowing up. Everything is 'cut to the chase, cut to the chase.'

I've always had something a wee bit up with me, but I think it's some kind of learning difficulty. It's always been something.

I think we have the attention span of a gnat. You know, with cell phones and Twitter.

Mike is the craziest person. He's scattered; he's all over the place. When you hold him down and tell him, 'This is what you're doing,' he's fantastic. But you have to hold him down. Like, when he had to write his verse for 'Hello Nasty,' we had to take his phone away to get him to do it.

I've tried many times to set out the case against the wicked fantasy of 'ADHD,' which usually earns me nothing but ignorant rage in return.

I have a very competent case of ADD.

Everyone has a really short attention span nowadays with social media, our phones. Even me - I can't go without touching my phone every five minutes.

Regularity chauvinists are people who insist that you have got to do the same thing every time, every day, which drives some of us nuts. Attention Deficit Disorder - we need a more positive term for that. Hummingbird mind, I should think.

I was very hyperactive when I was a kid, just misbehaving at school like most kids, and I would probably be 10 times worse at home.

I'm kind of ADD in that sense where if I start liking something, I'll just learn it to the absolute max.

One of my biggest problems is I get bored too easily, and I like to experiment too much, to the point where I confuse myself and I confuse my fans.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.

Finger-picking, in general, is a hypnotic thing. I feel like I'm more A.D.D. all the time, so the music has to be hypnotic.