Short Attention Spans Quotes

As a person who has a pretty short attention span I think of music like that, completely. That's why I can quite happily change genres mid-song.

I've heard people say that [I have a short attention span]. I don't feel I do, because when I'm interested in something I'll stay in focus as long as it is necessary... If you get off on something I'm not very interested in, it's very easy for me to block it out. It's easy for me to block things out.

Mid-grade readers don't have short attention spans, they just have low boredom tolerance.

I can sketch up a storm, and I'm very involved in how clothes are constructed, but I have a short attention span.

One of the great things about being an actor is it serves a short attention span, which is something I have.

I wrote the column. I - you know, - the column simply said that [Clay] Felker is destroying this paper. And I heard that he was about ready to fire me, but two other people on The Voice interceded and, fortunately, he had a very short attention span, so I wasn't fired.

I sometimes worry about my short attention span, but not for long.

As a reader, I have a very short attention span and a low tolerance for boredom, and I find that comes in handy with my writing. If I get bored writing something, I pity the people who will then try to read it.

I realize I am contradictory: I have an independent filmmaker's sensibility and a Hollywood director's short-attention span.

Land of snap decisions, land of short attention spans, nothing is savored long enough to really understand.

The ultimate pitch for an era of short attention spans begins with a single word - and doesn't go any further.

Films to the degree that they glorify mindlessness and short attention span they are bad, to the degree that they encourage empathy with people not like ourselves and encourage us to think about life, they are good.

But I quite like that the public has a very short attention span. If I haven't been on telly for a little bit, I can sense it. People don't take as much notice of you, it's really quite palpable.

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

I'm not a long movie person. I have a very short attention span. If you give me a 90-minute movie, that's perfect. When it gets to be two hours, that's a little bit too long for me.

I guess I have a short attention span! I'm interested in new worlds, new universes, new challenges.

Being effective at social media, whether for business or personal use, means capturing people who have short attention spans. They're only a click away from a picture of a funny cat, so you have to make your thing more compelling than that cat. And that can be a high bar.

Hopefully, at some point, people will at least credit the Republicans with carrying out their oversight responsibilities and with pursuing a principled course of action even in the face of everyone's short-attention spans.

I want people to be drawn into the space of the work. And a lot of people are like me in that they have relatively short attention spans. So I shoot for the window of opportunity.

Plus the public's attention span is so short right now, if a skater doesn't strike while the iron is hot... well it's not like people will forget you, but they just won't care anymore.

I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that.

I have a short attention span.

My short attention span has allowed me a life of diversity in work and place.

Americans continue to suffer from a notoriously short attention span. They get mad as hell with reasonable frequency, but quickly return to their families and sitcoms. Meanwhile, the corporate lobbies stay right where they are, outlasting all the populist hysteria.

Americans get mad as hell with reasonable frequency but quickly return to their families and sitcoms.

A short attention span makes all of your perceptions and relationships shallow and unsatisfying.

Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans.

Children from like 8 and even up to the college age - Spider-Man appeals to a fairly broad demographic but, like I said, a mean age probably of 12 is a good mark - they process information so quickly and it's not because of attention deficit or short attention span.

It's not our fault our generation has short attention spans, Dad. We watch an appalling amount of TV.

I don't think people really do listen. We plug into music, and we have short attention spans. We tend to download individual tracks from iTunes rather than a whole album. We buy music DVDs and watch them once, and then they disappear into a drawer, or we loan them to a friend, and we never watch it again.

Strike while the iron is hot.