We have populations now in the West with a very short memory span. One reason for this short memory span is that television over the last fifteen years has seen a big decline in the coverage of the rest of the world.
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'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.
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.
Radio was, in a way, a very philosophical medium. You could make an argument on the radio, and people listened to it. Television is already harder because people's attention span becomes shorter with television. Cut to a commercial and all that.
I have a very short attention span.
My attention span is very short.
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.
I have a very short attention span, so sitting down with a book is very difficult for me.
I'm the sort of person with a very short attention span, and I lose interest in things very quickly.
I have a very short attention span, so books have never been my thing.
I think, first of all, you know, Washington has a bad habit of a very short attention span.
I have a very short attention span, which is funny. I mean, you'd watch me and think that I don't, but I actually do.
I can sketch up a storm, and I'm very involved in how clothes are constructed, but I have a short attention span.
I have a short attention span, so I go through short nerd-out phases.
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.