Quotes About Short Attention Spans

#1. 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.

Barbara Olson

#2. 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.

Alexis Ohanian

#3. An ambitious, paradoxical world we live in -
of short attention spans
paired with the massive fear
of being forgotten too soon.

Sreesha Divakaran

#4. There is a lot of talk in publishing these days that we need to become more like the Internet: We need to make books for short attention spans with bells and whistles - books, in short, that are as much like 'Angry Birds' as possible. But I think that's a terrible idea.

John Green

#5. In this fragmented world, with such short attention spans, you've got a couple of episodes to make an impression. And if you don't, you start to lose your audience in a big way.

David Walton

#6. 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.

Barbara Kruger

#7. The media, the polls and our legislatures fortunately have short attention spans.

John Gutfreund

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

Joni Mitchell

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

Daniel H. Pink

#10. The problems with kids having short attention spans is driven by entertainment, reset buttons on games, games having to do with getting somewhere and heads blowing up. Everything is 'cut to the chase, cut to the chase.'

Bill Cosby

#11. I'm very conscious of people having pretty short attention spans: I know, I'm guilty of it. I'm 17 now: what happens by the time I'm 21, am I a burn-out or something? Will they still listen to my record?

Lorde

#12. Demigods today. I blame social media for their short attention spans. When you can't even take the time to listen to a god hold forth, that's just sad.

Rick Riordan

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

Barbara Kruger

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

Judith Viorst

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

Yeardley Smith

#16. Today's children have very short attention spans because they are being reared on dreadful television programmes which are flickering away in the corner.

Claire Tomalin

#17. Let me just tell you this: I love polyester.

Jay R. Ferguson

#18. The paranormal bad boy is usually a fiercely loyal partner for the heroine. Once his sights are set on her, he doesn't notice other women, and he's utterly unconcerned with what anyone else thinks of his choice.

Jeaniene Frost

#19. True statesmanship is the art of changing a nation from what it is into what it ought to be.

William Rounseville Alger

#20. in space-time, past, present, and future are all part of an integrated four-dimensional structure in which all of space and all of time exist perpetually. Imagine

Mo Gawdat

#21. I am now obsessed with the technology of the body. I think it's the most technologically literate thing that we have.

Wayne McGregor

#22. Life is filled with seasons and this is a different season.

Tom Brokaw

#23. If she[ ... ] had known how much her first half-inch beginning to let go would take - and how long her noticing and renouncing owning and her turning her habits, and beginning the slimmest self-mastery whose end was nowhere in sight - would she have begun?

Annie Dillard

#24. Technology is my native tongue. I'm online six hours a day.

Howard Rheingold

#25. The student of mathematics must get rid of all arbitrary thinking and follow purely the demands of thought. In thinking in this way, the laws of the spiritual world flow into him. This regulated thinking leads to the most spiritual truths.

Rudolf Steiner

#26. Every day, no matter what I'm doing, I say, 'Lord, I'll do the best I can, and You do the rest.

Loretta Young

#27. May be wiser to everything to see and understand what it left behind

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#28. I have three closets in my bedroom.

Vanessa Hudgens

#29. Man governs himself more by impulse than reason

Blaise Pascal

#30. I almost feel like if I didn't have the gallery and museum content it would be easy to get lost. People's attention spans are so short; they see something and it trends for a few days and then it goes away and something else comes.

Kalup Linzy

#31. To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.

Maxwell Maltz

#32. Nobody ever thanks you for saving them from the disease they didn't know they were going to get.

William Foege