Attention Span Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  Children, Mean, College

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• 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.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Media, People, Attention

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• 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.

  Bo Burnham

  Stupid, Thoughtful, Thinking

  Source: www.popmatters.com

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• 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.

  Phil Elvrum

  People, Attention, Want

  Source: pitchfork.com

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

  Octavia Butler

  Attention, Too Short, Scientist

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

  Ian Somerhalder

  Brain, Mosquitoes, Attention

  FaceBook post by Ian Somerhalder from Sep 16, 2013

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• 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

  Iron, People, Hot

  Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Artist, Opportunity, Space

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• 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

  Responsibility, People, Attention

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

  Bill Griffith

  Reality, Attention, Way

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• 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

  Mean, Cat, Media

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• He has the attention span of a hummingbird.

  Christopher Moore

  Attention, Hummingbirds

  Christopher Moore (2009). “The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror”, p.153, Hachette UK

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

  Alfonso Cuaron

  Challenges, Attention, World

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

  Jerry Seinfeld

  People, Attention, Infinite

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• 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.

  Jason Sudeikis

  Growing Up, Reading, Character

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• Attention spans are changing. It's very noticeable. I am very aware that the kind of books I read in my childhood kids now won't be able to read. I was reading Kipling and PG Wodehouse and Shakespeare at the age of 11. The kind of description and detail I read I would not put in my books. I don't know how much you can fight that because you want children to read. So I pack in excitement and plot and illustrations and have a cliffhanger every chapter. Charles Dickens was doing cliffhangers way back when. But even with all the excitement you have to make children care about the characters.

  Cressida Cowell

  Children, Book, Reading

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• 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

  Two, Long, Giving

  "Courteney Cox Talks Directorial Debut JUST BEFORE I GO, Gus Van Sant’s Advice, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 26, 2015.

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

  Jai Courtney

  Exercise, Routine, Attention

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  People, Giving, Leaving

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• ...One of the most important lessons, perhaps, is the fact that SOFTWARE IS HARD. From now on I shall have significantly greater respect for every successful software tool that I encounter. During the past decade I was surprised to learn that the writing of programs for TeX and Metafont proved to be much more difficult than all the other things I had done (like proving theorems or writing books). The creation of good software demand a significiantly higher standard of accuracy than those other things do, and it requires a longer attention span than other intellectual tasks.

  Donald Knuth

  Book, Writing, Learning

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

  Gore Vidal

  Baby, Writing, Mind

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

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Sunshine, Sick, Attention

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Night Embrace”, p.18, Macmillan

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

  Scott Westerfeld

  People, Worry, Attention

  Scott Westerfeld (2006). “Peeps”, p.47, Penguin

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

  Ashwin Sanghi

  Years, Two, Watches

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• My attention span is very short.

  will.i.am

  Attention

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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