Attention Span Quotes - Page 5

• If someone can watch an entire season of a TV series in one day, doesnt that show an incredible attention span?

  Kevin Spacey

  One Day, Watches, Attention

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• 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

  People, Challenges, Attention

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• I love the necessary ambiguity of short stories - there simply isn't time to render every detail, so much of the story that orbits the literal prose must happen in the reader's imagination. Who knows, maybe the dwindling attention spans means a lucrative future for short story writers.

  Matthew Healy

  Mean, Imagination, Story Writers

  Source: blog.superstitionreview.asu.edu

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• There's time limits on how long people's attention spans will work. There's six weeks in each territory that you're really famous, then you, thank god, disappear again.

  Sia Furler

  Long, People, Thank God

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• 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

  Games, Long, Video

  "The friendliest big little city in America" by Beth Ditto, www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2007.

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• I wanted to remind people that there was a time when music required an attention span.

  Mark Kozelek

  People, Attention, Wanted

  Interview with Laura Snapes, pitchfork.com. May 23, 2012.

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• People's attention spans are a little shorter these days. Same thing with food and movies.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  People, Attention, Littles

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• We're not cognitively equipped to deal with it. And it's becoming a problem, frankly. It's part of the reason why I quit Facebook. We all hear these things and read reports about how our attention spans are shrinking. It makes me wonder about the generation growing up now, how it will affect their brain development.

  Ron Currie Jr.

  Growing Up, Brain, Generations

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 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

  Song, Ipods, Long

  "Show No Mercy". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, pitchfork.com. July 17, 2009.

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• 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

  Stupid, Blow, People

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• I'm usually two projects ahead. It's hard for me because I don't have a really long attention span.

  Joe Swanberg

  Two, Long, Attention

  Source: collider.com

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• 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.

  Girl Talk

  Hunting, Car, Listening

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• In this age of micro-blogging and two second sound bites, almost no one has the attention span, or time, to read more than a few sentences.

  Tim Frick

  Two, Marketing, Age

  Tim Frick (2013). “Return on Engagement: Content, Strategy and Design Techniques for Digital Marketing”, p.173, Taylor & Francis

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

  Allison Mack

  Attention, Actors, Great Things

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• I've got the attention span of a child.

  Ricky Gervais

  Children, Attention

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• 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

  Clothes, Storm, Attention

  "One On One with Michael Kors". Interview with Nina Garcia, www.marieclaire.com. August 19, 2009.

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• The episodic, reactive, almost frantic pace of what is broadcast makes children feel and act frantic and shortens their attention spans and their patience for activities that take time and problems that don't yield immediate solutions.

  Hillary Clinton

  Children, Yield, Attention

  Hillary Rodham Clinton (2006). “It Takes a Village”, p.257, Simon and Schuster

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• There will be a competition among critics for the best Paris Hilton insult. Here's my first: Her attention span is so short that she can't even maintain her concentration while running away from a psycho... Maybe the ultimate insult is that she makes her co-star Elisha Cuthbert seem, by comparison, the sexiest and most interesting actress in modern cinema.

  David Edelstein

  Running, Stars, Paris

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• 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

  Museums, People, Would Be

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Judith Viorst

  Boredom, Tolerance, Attention

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• I've heard people say that [I have a short attention span]. I don't feel I do, because when I'm interested in something I'll stay in focus as long as it is necessary... If you get off on something I'm not very interested in, it's very easy for me to block it out. It's easy for me to block things out.

  Dan Quayle

  Block, People, Long

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• You have the attention span of a large bug, and yet I don't feel good enough about myself to not date you.

  Dov Davidoff

  Dating, Feel Good, Attention

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• 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

  Years, Boredom, Attention

  "Eddie Redmayne profile: Quotes, photos, videos and selected filmography of BAFTA and Oscar nominee" by Natalie Corner, www.mirror.co.uk. February 21, 2015.

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• 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

  Ideas, Two, Different

  "Nightline's Last Interview With Paul Newman". Nightline Interview, abcnews.go.com. May 2007.

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• I go through the text making sure I haven't used any big words. If I find any fancy adjectives have crept in, I replace them with small words like 'nice' and 'big'. I've liked these words ever since I was told not to use them in English class at school. After that, I check that the sentences are short so as people won't get confused and I shorten all the chapters so they won't get bored. I can't read anything complicated these days, my attention span is too short. Everyone else probably feels the same.

  Martin Millar

  Confused, Nice, School

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