Top 100 Quotes About Attention Span
#1. 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
#2. A fellow with the inventiveness of Albert Einstein but with the attention span of Daffy Duck.
Tom Shales
#3. The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.
Karl Kraus
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. I get into a tearing passion about something I know very little about, and when I learn more my passion ebbs away.
John Buchan
#7. 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
#8. You don't pay attention man/that's why your money is the size of your attention span.
J Dilla
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. 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
#14. 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
#15. Civilization's shortening attention span is mismatched with the pace of environmental problems.
Stewart Brand
#16. Why do girls always fall for guys with the attention span of drosophila?
Rachel Cohn
#17. I think we have the attention span of a gnat. You know, with cell phones and Twitter.
Jeff Daniels
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. Why did the two most important things in her life have to require her attention at exactly the same time?
Rachel Spangler
#21. I'm usually two projects ahead. It's hard for me because I don't have a really long attention span.
Joe Swanberg
#22. My secret is simple. I have a very short attention span, and writing lots of things fast appeases that very attention span.
Shiloh Walker
#23. My attention span is very short.
Will.i.am
#24. We don't really even know how the Internet and technology are changing us, or our brains and our attention span.
Nancy Jo Sales
#25. 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
#26. He said ... Everyone's attention span is so short. They'll be mad about something new today.
Jon Ronson
#27. 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
#28. As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.
Michael Morpurgo
#29. 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
#30. According to USA today, the average length of an attention span of a man in America is 23 minutes.
Robert Fripp
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. These days. Most of us have the attention span of a meth-addicted squirrel.
Kristen Lamb
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. I'd have a longer attention span if there weren't so many shiny things.
Darynda Jones
#38. 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
#39. I came to Hollywood to write and found out I don't have the attention span.
Lee Daniels
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. I guess I have a short attention span! I'm interested in new worlds, new universes, new challenges.
Alfonso Cuaron
#44. Everyone's attention span these days is limited to how long it takes to flick the iPod wheel on to the next song.
Mat McNerney
#45. Are you saying I have a short attention span?" "Not at all. I'm saying there's a fire in you that drives everything you do, that makes you need to better the world and those you love. To stand up for those you can't. It's one of the wonderful things about you.
Richelle Mead
#46. I sometimes worry about my short attention span, but not for long ...
Herb Caen
#48. Imagine what our culture would be like if Americans sold ideas, words, and books with the same creativity we use to sell designer jeans, shampoo, and rock stars. Why, we might end up with people whos attention span for the printed word is longer than the time it takes to read a T-shirt.
Jim Trelease
#49. I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.
Ian Somerhalder
#51. The generation that had information, but no context. Butter, but no bread. Craving, but no longing.
Meg Wolitzer
#52. I didn't care for beat reporting, covering the same thing day after day - short attention span.
Charles Portis
#53. I did not succeed in life by intelligence. I succeeded because I have a long attention span.
Charlie Munger
#54. 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.
Courteney Cox
#55. The whole bloody world's got a commitment problem.
It's the three-minute culture. It's a global attention-span deficit.
Helen Fielding
#56. I think, first of all, you know, Washington has a bad habit of a very short attention span.
Claire McCaskill
#57. Being a member of the Nintendo generation, I've got a really short attention span.
Jesse Kellerman
#58. In 2000, Microsoft Canada reported that the average human had an attention span of twelve seconds; by 2013 that number had fallen to eight seconds. (According to Microsoft, a goldfish, by comparison, has an average attention span of nine seconds.)
Adam Alter
#59. I don't have much of an attention span for TV - I nod off during the basketball playoffs - but when I watch 'Game of Thrones' on On Demand, I'm glued to the set. It's mystical and addictive. Tyrion Lannister, that's my man.
Steve Harvey
#60. My adult life has been a patchwork of projects, most of which were fleeting fancies of overreaching vision. I tend to seize on things, only to abandon them due to a lack of time, talent or inclination.
Susan Wiggs
#61. I'm the perfect kind of personality for making YouTube videos. I deal in short attention span theater. I do wild things.
Steve-O
#62. What we know for sure from our work and from others' is that mice have a life span of 1,000 days, dogs have 5,000 days, and we humans have 29,000 days. Recognizing that the duration is limited, and aging is inevitable, focus the attention on enhancing the quality of the days you have.
S. Jay Olshansky
#63. I have been so struck by the mettle of the men who founded this country and wrote the Constitution. What unbelievable persistence and integrity. I wonder if any of us would have the attention span required to forge a whole new world. I wish we did.
Rosanne Cash
#64. It is difficult to threaten someone who doesn't have the necessary attention span to register fear.
Rob Thurman
#65. You and I and everyone else have the attention span of gnats. And that means that saying or doing anything once simply doesn't work.
Gene Simmons
#66. If you are heartbroken and can't face the world, you need something with a fantastic plot. You won't be able to read anything boring because your attention span when you are heartbroken decreases by three-quarters.
Isabel Gillies
#67. I don't go on the Internet. I never go on the Internet. I don't go on Twitter. I'm not on Facebook. I've seen friends go into dark, dark holes of sadness because of that. Frankly, I don't have the time or the attention span for it.
Amy Sherman-Palladino
#68. Daemon had not stayed.
My smile slipped from my face.
He was standing by the window, his back to me. "I got bored."
"I wasn't even gone five minutes."
"I have a short attention span.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#69. Pilots are so hard because you have to introduce all these characters, you have to hook an audience, and an audience has such a smaller attention span than maybe they used to have.
Max Greenfield
#70. I'm not really one for reading books. I have a very poor attention span. I'd rather listen to music, play games or watch films on my iPad.
Olly Murs
#71. The reader is someone with an attention span of about 30 seconds.
William Zinsser
#72. The average buyer in bookshop spends 8 seconds on the front cover and 15 seconds on the back cover before deciding whether to purchase the book or not. On average, he does not get past page 18. See? The odds are stacked against us writers!
Ashwin Sanghi
#73. I have an extraordinary attention span. I manage to juggle two or three different ideas at the same time, and that's probably, if I have a gift, that's probably the best gift that's given me.
Paul Newman
#74. 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.
John Scalzi
#75. My laziness is really profound. I'm really interested in where it comes from - it almost feels chemical. And we've all got ADD now, short attention span and all that.
Hugh Grant
#76. Never underestimate the short attention span of a satyr.
Jamie Wyman
#77. The first thing you learn when you're blogging is that people are one click away from leaving you. So you've got to get to the point, you can't waste people's time, you've got to give them some value for their limited attention span.
Alex Tabarrok
#78. Mrs. Kooshof's intolerance for complexity, for the looping circuitry of a well-told tale, symptomizes an epidemic disease of our modern world. (I see it daily among my students. The short attention span, the appetite limited to linearity. Too much Melrose Place.)
Tim O'Brien
#79. The richness of Africa, culturally, is vast. That's the challenge that we have to face, because most of the time, people in the western world, their attention span is really narrow.
Angelique Kidjo
#80. 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.
Roger Ebert
#81. While I was an addict, I didn't write anything. I didn't have the attention span or the will.
David Crosby
#82. I realize I am contradictory: I have an independent filmmaker's sensibility and a Hollywood director's short-attention span.
Doug Liman
#83. 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.
Thomas Haden Church
#85. Eden," Cyrus snapped bringing her back to the present. "I have a sword pointed at you. Will you please focus
Samantha Young
#86. This is the great luxury of not working: the moment you read a book that has nothing to do with work, you know you're really relaxed. And I have a sh*t attention span. I can't concentrate for more than five minutes.
Eddie Redmayne
#87. The addictive nature of Web browsing can leave you with an attention span of nine seconds - the same as a goldfish.
Sally Hogshead
#88. Pat Moynihan could write books with one hand and legislate with the other. I can't; I have a short attention span. The slightest distraction would take me away from writing.
Barney Frank
#89. His attention span was not long, shall we say?
Lauren Bacall
#90. 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.
Brian Boitano
#92. I've got a very short attention span, and this has been part of the reason I'm so kind of dumbfounded at the fact that I've still stayed with music. Nothing has ever stuck for me, and music's the only thing that's managed to stick out for a long period of time.
Gin Wigmore
#93. My attention span is all over the place, and I overthink things. I'm an insomniac.
Selena Gomez
#94. The average attention span of the modern human being is about half as long as whatever you're trying to tell them.
Meg Rosoff
#95. The plot details of B movies are irrational: accept that people do things that are contradictory, against their own best interests, have short term aims & limited attention span, and do incredibly stupid things while things blow up. Apart from things blowing up, this is just like the music industry.
Robert Fripp
#96. 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
#97. I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that.
Octavia Butler
#98. Technology is killing us. We think it's helping us but it's killing us. Don't ask me why because I don't have the time or the attention span to complete that thought. Now let's all hold hands and draw spider monkeys.
Thom Yorke
#99. Storytelling
that's not the future. The future, I'm afraid, is flashes and impulses. It's mode up of moments and fragments, and stories won't survive.
Dexter Palmer
#100. There were times in life when the aperture of your attention span narrowed to such a tight focus that your entire consciousness rested upon a single person.
J.R. Ward
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