Short Attention Spans Quotes

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

Hysteria, Mad, Political

"Who speaks for me?" by Eric Alterman, www.motherjones.com. January/February 1994.

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

Maira Kalman

Diversity, Attention, Attention Span

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

Eric Alterman

Mad, Return, Hell

"Who speaks for me?". www.motherjones.com. January/February 1994.

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

Barbara Kruger

Art, Expression, Doe

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I have a short attention span.

Tony Scott

Hair, Attention, Attention Span

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

Yeardley Smith

Dad, Our Generation, Watches

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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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Strike while the iron is hot.

Geoffrey Chaucer

Wise, Wisdom, Iron Will

Geoffrey Chaucer, Barry Windeatt (2008). “Troilus and Criseyde: A New Translation”, p.193, Oxford University Press

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

Michael Morpurgo

Children, Attention, Remember

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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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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 don't think people really do listen. We plug into music, and we have short attention spans. We tend to download individual tracks from iTunes rather than a whole album. We buy music DVDs and watch them once, and then they disappear into a drawer, or we loan them to a friend, and we never watch it again.

Ian Anderson

Thinking, Dvds, People

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I wrote the column. I - you know, - the column simply said that [Clay] Felker is destroying this paper. And I heard that he was about ready to fire me, but two other people on The Voice interceded and, fortunately, he had a very short attention span, so I wasn't fired.

Nat Hentoff

Fire, Two, Voice

Source: thedailyhatch.org

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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

Writing, People, Boredom

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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

Song, Thinking, Attention

Source: thequietus.com

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

Doug Liman

Independent, Attention, Directors

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

Eckhart Tolle

Perception, Attention, Shallow

Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.174, Penguin

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

Herb Caen

Long, Worry, Attention

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