No Attention Span Quotes

#1. The first TV babies are now writing with a TV mind that has no attention span at all.

Gore Vidal

#2. I bought a guitar CD-ROM because we had a new computer, but I had no attention span for that. I spent about three hours on it desperate to be brilliant. Eventually, I got some proper lessons.

James Bay

#3. I have no attention span. I get bored so fast.

Carrie Underwood

#4. We don't really even know how the Internet and technology are changing us, or our brains and our attention span.

Nancy Jo Sales

#5. In this age of micro-blogging and two second sound bites, almost no one has the attention span, or time, to read more than a few sentences.

Tim Frick

#6. I try to read, but my attention span is so bad, and ever since Netflix was invented, that's all I do in my spare time, which is really bad, but it's like a chore to read for me.

Eliot Paulina Sumner

#7. He said ... Everyone's attention span is so short. They'll be mad about something new today.

Jon Ronson

#8. 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.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

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

Michael Morpurgo

#10. A lot of television tends to assume that audiences don't have the attention span or the IQ to follow a lot of stuff.

J. Michael Straczynski

#11. According to USA today, the average length of an attention span of a man in America is 23 minutes.

Robert Fripp

#12. You do not necessarily lose concentration; you only allow something else to take control of a greater portion of your attentiveness and attention at any given moment of time.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#13. If you come to any of my live shows, you'll see, it's very frenetic. I have the attention span of a gnat.

Howie Mandel

#14. These days. Most of us have the attention span of a meth-addicted squirrel.

Kristen Lamb

#15. On every Bright Eyes record, there's some kind of sound collage that begins it. Some of them have dialogue, some don't. I like it because it can kind of slow down the attention span a bit. It's a way to draw you in to the rest of the record.

Conor Oberst

#16. I have never been much at nonverbal communication. Additionally, I don't have much of an attention span, and what I lack in patience I make up for in ambivalence and an inability to sleep.

Carrie Fisher

#17. A survey of Canadian media consumption by Microsoft concluded that the average attention span had fallen to eight seconds, down from 12 in the year 2000.

Timothy Egan

#18. I'd have a longer attention span if there weren't so many shiny things.

Darynda Jones

#19. It's not my fault you have the attention span of a gnat, capable of only thumbing through the crap on Facebook, instead of reading something of worth that can change your life. No, I'm not talking about Oprah's or Ellen's book either.

Dara Reidyr

#20. I came to Hollywood to write and found out I don't have the attention span.

Lee Daniels

#21. Everyone's attention span is getting shorter. As a result, everything - films, music, art - gets watered down and dumber. Every now and again, you get something great, but not often.

Kelis

#22. 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

#23. The generation that had information, but no context. Butter, but no bread. Craving, but no longing.

Meg Wolitzer

#24. Romeo had the attention span of a slice of bread.
Which is none at all.
Every time I start to explain something, it's like not only his eyes glazed over, but his entire body. At one point, I wondered if it were possible for him to be asleep with his eyes open.
And God, he smelled good.

Cambria Hebert

#25. It is no coincidence that ours is a time afflicted by a widespread sense of attentional crisis, at least in the West - one captured by the phrase 'homo distractus,' a species of ever shorter attention span known for compulsively checking his devices.

Tim Wu

#26. An exceedingly confident student would in theory make a terrible student. Why would he take school seriously when he feels that he can outwit his teachers?

Criss Jami

#27. Dogs have such a limited lifespan to teach us about friendship and loyalty...perhaps they know we have a short span of attention.

Dan Cohen

#28. A fellow with the inventiveness of Albert Einstein but with the attention span of Daffy Duck.

Tom Shales

#29. The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.

Karl Kraus

#30. I don't have a good attention span and can't spend long in record stores or video shops or games emporiums without getting grumpy.

Beth Ditto

#31. Learning lines is hard for me because I have the attention span of a six year old. That's why being on planes all the time is so useful - I'm forced to learn out of boredom.

Eddie Redmayne

#32. I get into a tearing passion about something I know very little about, and when I learn more my passion ebbs away.

John Buchan

#33. I'm a product of the 1970s, so I have a short attention span. You know, I grew up on cartoons and half-hour shows. So the stories that I'm interested in grab my attention very quickly, and they have to keep my attention.

Robert Kurson

#34. You don't pay attention man/that's why your money is the size of your attention span.

J Dilla

#35. 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.

Thighpaulsandra

#36. How in the world did they just jump from politics, to a ball, and now to daimon attacks? And here I'd thought I had the attention span of an ant on Red Bull.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

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

Michael Kors

#38. My attention span is very short.

Will.i.am

#39. He has the attention span of a lightning bolt.

Robert Redford

#40. There were scenes that just for length purposes, and knowing that the attention span of kids is not great, don't make it much longer than about 90 minutes.

John Badham

#41. Civilization's shortening attention span is mismatched with the pace of environmental problems.

Stewart Brand

#42. Why do girls always fall for guys with the attention span of drosophila?

Rachel Cohn

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

Jeff Daniels

#44. There is no such thing as an attention span. There is only the quality of what you are viewing. This whole idea of an attention span is, I think, a misnomer. People have an infinite attention span if you are entertaining them.

Jerry Seinfeld

#45. My attention span and my available time and my caring-whatsoever-about-this-mess are not guaranteed to exist in Later Land, so I can't go there. The

Dana K. White

#46. Why did the two most important things in her life have to require her attention at exactly the same time?

Rachel Spangler

#47. I'm usually two projects ahead. It's hard for me because I don't have a really long attention span.

Joe Swanberg

#48. My secret is simple. I have a very short attention span, and writing lots of things fast appeases that very attention span.

Shiloh Walker