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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 have a short attention span.

  Tony Scott

  Hair, Attention, Attention Span

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

  Michael Morpurgo

  Children, Attention, Remember

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• Land of snap decisions, land of short attention spans, nothing is savored long enough to really understand.

  Joni Mitchell

  Land, Long, Decision

  Song: Dog Eat Dog, Album: Dog Eat Dog

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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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• The ultimate pitch for an era of short attention spans begins with a single word - and doesn't go any further.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Communication, Attention, Eras

  Daniel H. Pink (2012). “To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others”, p.108, Penguin

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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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• 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

  Thinking, People, Empathy

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

  Herb Caen

  Long, Worry, Attention

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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 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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