Attention Deficit Disorder Quotes

• Attention-deficit disorders seem to abound in modern society, and we don't know the cause.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Attention, Literature, Causes

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

  Joni Mitchell

  Pride, Attention, Bad Times

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• Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape.

  Nora Ephron

  Book, Reading, Opposites

  "I Am Just a Reader" by Deborah Plummer, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 22, 2013.

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• Reading makes me feel I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. ... Reading is bliss.

  Nora Ephron

  Reading, Bliss, Better Person

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• Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real. Reading is grist. Reading is bliss.

  Nora Ephron

  Real, Reading, Book

  FaceBook post by Nora Ephron from Feb 02, 2012

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• The Internet is perfect for delivering large blocks of text to people throughout the world for free. That's a plus. The downside is the ADD, the Internet-addled Attention Deficit Disorder.

  Lee Klein

  Block, People, Perfect

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• The attention deficit disorder of the culture is very distressing in America now and I think it puts a lot of things at risk, not just poetry.

  Edward Hirsch

  Thinking, America, Risk

  Source: bigthink.com

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• With my recovery programme, I have to do a daily inventory of how my day has been. I am terribly dyslexic and have attention deficit disorder, so I have to carry a tape recorder everywhere I go.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Recovery, Tape, Attention

  Interview with David Furnish, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. October 2004.

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• A friend gave me a drug for attention deficit disorder, because he's afflicted, but I'm not. So what happened to me is I suddenly had an extra-long attention span. People would tell me a story, and it would end, and I'd get all mad. "Come on, man, there has to be more to that story."

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Men

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

  Steven Wright

  Nephew, Doe, Attention

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• My doctor told me i had Attention Deficit Disorder. He said, 'ADD is a complex disorder, blah, blah, blah,' I didn't pay attention to the rest.

  Kyle Dunnigan

  Doctors, Add, Attention

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• I realize that I can be with someone, but on a deeper level I'm not available to them at all. I have attention deficit disorder of the soul.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Soul, Levels, Attention

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• If you can somehow force a liberal into a point-counterpoint argument, his retorts will bear no relation to what you’ve said - unless you were in fact talking about your looks, your age, your weight, your personal obsessions, or whether you are a fascist. In the famous liberal two-step, they leap from one idiotic point to the next, so you can never nail them. It’s like arguing with someone with Attention Deficit Disorder.

  Ann Coulter

  Talking, Two, Age

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• There is a nationwide shortage of drugs for Attention Deficit Disorder. The FDA says they're not sure how it happened. I guess somebody wasn't paying attention.

  Jay Leno

  Fda, Drug, Attention

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• I have attention deficit disorder, so sitting in a classroom is not the best thing for me.

  Jeremy Miller

  Attention, Sitting, Classroom

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

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Attention, Disorder, Deficit

  "What I've Learned: Ozzy Osbourne" by Ross Johnson, www.esquire.com. January 1, 2005.

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• The way my brain processes information is quite odd. I mean, I have Attention Deficit Disorder and another learning disability I can't even spell. I don't even have a high school diploma. I'm smart, but you can't prove it on paper.

  Ron White

  Smart, School, Mean

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• Today, however, anti-vaccine activists go out of their way to claim that they are not anti-vaccine; they’re pro-vaccine. They just want vaccines to be safer. This is a much softer, less radical, more tolerable message, allowing them greater access to the media. However, because anti-vaccine activists today define safe as free from side effects such as autism, learning disabilities, attention deficit disorder, multiple sclerosis, diabetes, strokes, heart attacks, and blood clots—conditions that aren’t caused by vaccines—safer vaccines, using their definition, can never be made.

  Paul A. Offit

  Heart, Blood, Vaccines

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• I've been dyslexic and had Attention Deficit Disorder at some time in my life. I still read with a highlighter, but I've always loved to read.

  Andrew Young

  Attention, Disorder, Deficit

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• Our attention span is shot. We've all got Attention Deficit Disorder or ADD or OCD or one of these disorders with three letters because we don't have the time or patience to pronounce the entire disorder. That should be a disorder right there, TBD - Too Busy Disorder.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Funny, Humor, Add

  "Ellen DeGeneres: Here and Now". Comedy, Documentary, www.imdb.com. June 25, 2003.

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• 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.

  Ted Nelson

  Thinking, Nuts, People

  "The Curse of Xanadu" by Gary Wolf, www.wired.com. June 01, 1995.

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• Nowadays a lot of what was wrong with me would no doubt be ascribed to Attention Deficit Disorder, tartrazine food colouring, dairy produce and air pollution. A few hundred years earlier it would have been demons, still the best analogy I think, but not much help when it comes to a cure.

  Stephen Fry

  Thinking, Air, Years

  Stephen Fry (2011). “Moab Is My Washpot”, p.291, Soho Press

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• The first expert said he had attention deficit disorder. The second expert said the first was out of order. One said he was autistic, another that he was artistic. One said he had Tourette's syndrome. One said he had Asperger's syndrome. And one said the problem was that his parents had Munchausen syndrome. Still another said all he needed was a good old-fashioned spanking.

  Pseudonymous Bosch

  Order, Parent, Experts

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• Rafe didn't just flirt-he charmed girls right up to the point where they fell for him, then he changed his mind.I called him a player with attention deficit disorder.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Girl, Flirting, Player

  Kelley Armstrong (2014). “Darkness Rising: Complete Trilogy Collection: The Gathering, The Calling, The Rising”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• Reading is the unbelievably healthy way
  my attention deficit disorder medicates itself.
  Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to
  make contact with reality after a day of making things up.

  Nora Ephron

  Reading, Reality, Opposites

  Nora Ephron (2008). “I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts On Being a Woman”, p.84, Random House

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