Attention Span Quotes

My attention span is very short.

My attention span is very limited, and I watch just one or two movies a year.

People only worry about the uncanny for about a week; that's the end of their attention span. After that, suspicions turn into shtick.

Of course, it would help if she could stay focused, but she had the attention span of a sick flea.’ (Sunshine)

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

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.

I'm not someone who has a lengthy attention span, and that applies to my exercise routine as well.

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.

People have an infinite attention span if you are entertaining them.

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

He has the attention span of a hummingbird.

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.

Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days.

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.

People's attentions spans are getting shorter and shorter. I don't want to cater to that necessarily but, just for myself, it feels like more than 40 minutes of music is too much.

I see young people being dismissed for supposedly wanting only "stupid" and "easy" material, or that they don't have an attention span longer than three minutes. I disagree with all those statements; I just think they aren't true. I'm saying that our generation wants stuff that is substantial and challenging, as well as thoughtful and endearing. Well, I don't know if I'm doing that, but I'm trying.

The way the media cycle works, the way the news works, and the way people's attention span works, is that we only learn that people exist when there is crisis.

Civilization’s shortening attention span is mismatched with the pace of environmental problems.

Being close to nature, in general, helps boost a child's attention span.

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

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

I have a short attention span.

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

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.

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

My attention span is all over the place, and I overthink things. I'm an insomniac.

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.

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.

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

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

I have the attention span of a 2-year-old. I like to jump from project-to-project.

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

Attention spans get very weak at the speed of light, and that goes along with a very weak identity.

Now, for my younger viewers out there, a book is something we used to have before the internet. It’s sort of a blog for people with attention spans.

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

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.

I did not succeed in life by intelligence. I succeeded because I have a long attention span.

He has the attention span of a lightning bolt.

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.

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."

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

I don't necessarily want to direct because it's too much work and I don't have the attention span to stay with it that long. But I think getting everyone together on something that appeals to me and developing the material is something that I like to do.

I sometimes get in the car [and] jump all around hunting for a sample, and then I can get really annoying if anyone's in the car with me. But if I'm actually listening to music, I have a pretty solid attention span.

I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.

For years, particularly with the advent of the Internet, people have been griping about lessening attention spans.

I didn't really want to be an actor when I was growing up - I wanted to be whatever I was reading about or seeing at the time. When I read The Firm I wanted to be a lawyer; when I saw Top Gun, I wanted to be a fighter pilot. So that's why acting probably turned out to be a good thing for me because I get to be people for five minutes or 90 minutes. I'd be curious to see if I had the attention span to be like those guys on 30 Rock and play the same character season after season.

Strike while the iron is hot.