Short Attention Span Quotes

#1. 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

#2. I was pretty anti-academic, and I wasn't much of a student. I had a really short attention span and did not get a lot out of high school academically. I think college was a little the same way.

Chris Crutcher

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

Maira Kalman

#4. Most people are not auditory learners and struggle to keep focused for any period of time, especially now in the era of the short attention span.

Jim Putman

#5. For me, whether it's in a book or on T.V., a recipe has to be simple. I have a short attention span, so to open a cookbook and see a recipe that goes on for three to four pages, well, I've lost interest.

Al Roker

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

Eckhart Tolle

#7. 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.

Eric Alterman

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

Allison Mack

#9. 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

#10. I have a short attention span.

Tony Scott

#11. 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

#12. 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

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

Doug Liman

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. Never underestimate the short attention span of a satyr.

Jamie Wyman

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. 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

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

Shiloh Walker

#21. 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

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

Alfonso Cuaron

#23. 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

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

Herb Caen

#25. I didn't care for beat reporting, covering the same thing day after day - short attention span.

Charles Portis

#26. 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

#27. I think, first of all, you know, Washington has a bad habit of a very short attention span.

Claire McCaskill

#28. Being a member of the Nintendo generation, I've got a really short attention span.

Jesse Kellerman

#29. I'm the perfect kind of personality for making YouTube videos. I deal in short attention span theater. I do wild things.

Steve-O

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. My attention span is very short.

Will.i.am

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

Jon Ronson

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

Michael Morpurgo

#36. Eden," Cyrus snapped bringing her back to the present. "I have a sword pointed at you. Will you please focus

Samantha Young

#37. 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

#38. 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

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

Octavia Butler

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

Sreesha Divakaran