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 would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that.
I'm a product of the 1970s, so I have a short attention span. You know, I grew up on cartoons and half-hour shows. So the stories that I'm interested in grab my attention very quickly, and they have to keep my attention.
I've got a very short attention span, and this has been part of the reason I'm so kind of dumbfounded at the fact that I've still stayed with music. Nothing has ever stuck for me, and music's the only thing that's managed to stick out for a long period of time.
I have a very short attention span.
My attention span is very short.
My attention span has never been on point - in school as well - unless I'm very, very, very into something.
I have a short attention span. And when I'm in the middle of one thing, I'm then drawn to the next thing.
I have a very short attention span, so sitting down with a book is very difficult for me.
I have a short attention span. I couldn't stay doing the same thing for 30 years.
I'm the sort of person with a very short attention span, and I lose interest in things very quickly.
They say nobody has the attention span to read great books early in life. If I start to read something good, I'll look and it's 86 pages already. Attention span. What are they talking about? If it's good, it'll drag you in.
But I quite like that the public has a very short attention span. If I haven't been on telly for a little bit, I can sense it. People don't take as much notice of you, it's really quite palpable.
People have a very short attention span when it comes to television, but nobody forgets the movie you do.
Pat Moynihan could write books with one hand and legislate with the other. I can't; I have a short attention span. The slightest distraction would take me away from writing.
I think, first of all, you know, Washington has a bad habit of a very short attention span.