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“Engineering stimulates the mind. Kids get bored easily. They have got to get out and get their hands dirty: make things, dismantle things, fix things. When the schools can offer that, you'll have an engineer for life.”

Mind Hands Kids School Offers Bored Dirty Engineering Engineers

Author:Bruce Dickinson

“I go through the text making sure I haven't used any big words. If I find any fancy adjectives have crept in, I replace them with small words like 'nice' and 'big'. I've liked these words ever since I was told not to use them in English class at school. After that, I check that the sentences are short so as people won't get confused and I shorten all the chapters so they won't get bored. I can't read anything complicated these days, my attention span is too short. Everyone else probably feels the same.”

“I was very bored at school. I found it very easy and slow and grey. My teachers didn't really know how to handle me, because I was very sarcastic. I was over-confident, arrogant, a typical youngest child. I went through periods of withdrawing into myself and school psychologists tried to figure me out, work out why I didn't fit in. I found that irritating, too.”

“The world is colors and motion, feelings and thoughts and what does math have to do with it? Not much, if 'math' means being bored in high school, but in truth mathematics is the one universal science. Mathematics is the study of pure pattern and everything in the cosmos is a kind of pattern.”

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Book:Mind Tools: The Five Levels of Mathematical Reality

Source: Mind Tools: The Five Levels of Mathematical Reality

“I went to law school. I found it interesting for the first three weeks. By the fourth week, I found it tedious. I got bored and grew restless. I had no other plan for a job, because from seventh grade on, I had planned on law. So I shifted my focus from classes to extracurricular activities.”

Firsts School Jobs Law Three Found Interesting Class Focus Plans Week Grew Activity Bored Grades Fourth Restless Tedious Law School Seventh Grade Extracurricular Activities

Author:Demetri Martin

“I went to college, grad school. I got an M.B.A., had a really cush corporate job. But I was just bored stiff. I didn't fit that mold.”

School Jobs College Fit Corporate Bored Mold Grad Grad School

Author:Dean Karnazes

“In primary school, I was bored witless by Australian history.”

School Primaries Bored Australian Primary School

Author:Catherine Jinks

“School bored me. Being educated and being intelligent are two different things. I thought I was smart enough. And I wanted to be an entertainer. I stopped going to school as a way of saying I was mature, a way of saying I was going to choose who I was going to become.”

Way Two Different Enough Wanted School Smart Intelligent Educated Bored Different Things Mature Entertainers Two Different Things

Author:Djimon Hounsou