Top 15 Ann Makosinski Quotes

My attention span has never been on point – in school as well – unless I’m very, very, very into something.

I was always taking garbage from around the house and making my own toys. I wasn’t given a Wii or an Xbox or anything.

I just think we need to find a way, because we don’t dispose of them very well; they have very bad chemicals in them. If we could just find a way, maybe start at a small step with eliminating batteries perhaps in small electronic devices, and then possibly in the future go bigger, that would be great.

My first toy was a box of transistors.

Creativity was born out of necessity because I didn’t have many things to play with.

Phone screens are too small to properly appreciate YouTube videos.

I was listed in ‘Time Magazine”s ‘Thirty under Thirty’ and have given three TED Talks, too.

If I don’t do something constructive every day, I feel like I have wasted my time, and I almost feel guilty for not doing something I could have learned from.

I’d take garbage, and I’d glue them together and create inventions.

What I kind of want to spread as my message to all kinds of youth that I get to reach out to is, you can do cool stuff; you’ve just got to put in time and be dedicated.

It’s very hard to juggle a science fair project as well as your schoolwork.

I know a lot of people around the world have these problems where there’s just no light, no electricity, nothing.

I have lots of different interests. Any of my friends will know I’m interested both in science and in art.

I’m really interested in harvesting surplus energy, energy that surrounds but we never really use.

I’m sure we’ve all had that annoying experience when we desperately need a flashlight, we find one, and the batteries are out. Imagine how much money we would save and the amount of toxins leached into the soil, etc., reduced if we didn’t use any batteries in flashlights!