A Quote by Daniel H. Pink

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

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Daniel H. Pink
American - Author
Born: 1964

We live in a time of short attention spans and long stories. The short attention spans are seen as inevitable, the consequence of living our lives in thrall to flickering streams of information. The long stories are the surprise, as is the persistence of the audience for them.

Tom Junod

Attention spans are short. Like, eight seconds short. That's why it's necessary to grab people's attention immediately.

John Rampton

Gaming is our cultural bogeyman - we blame it for everything from child obesity to violence to short attention spans. But any explanation that fits every situation ultimately explains nothing.

Naomi Alderman

The media, the polls and our legislatures fortunately have short attention spans.

John Gutfreund

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

Judith Viorst

In life when we feel we have reached a limit, that is when the true battle begins. Just when you despair and think it is impossible to go any further, will you become apathetic, or will you say it's not over and stand up with an unyielding spirit? The battle is decided by this single determination.

Daisaku Ikeda

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

Barbara Kruger

Spin rate itself doesn't make a pitch harder to hit. It just makes it further from what the hitters are used to seeing. It takes a pitch further away from average.

Trevor Bauer

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

Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story springs.

Clive Barker

Today's children have very short attention spans because they are being reared on dreadful television programmes which are flickering away in the corner.

Claire Tomalin

In this fragmented world, with such short attention spans, you've got a couple of episodes to make an impression. And if you don't, you start to lose your audience in a big way.

David Walton

There is a lot of talk in publishing these days that we need to become more like the Internet: We need to make books for short attention spans with bells and whistles - books, in short, that are as much like 'Angry Birds' as possible. But I think that's a terrible idea.

John Green

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

Yeardley Smith

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

Joni Mitchell

In '77 there was no Internet, there was no Twitter or Facebook, and I think that, without being some old git who hates anything new, people's attention spans are too short. Back then you had 'Top Of The Pops' and 'Melody Maker,' and you had to make the effort to go to a show so that you absorbed the culture of music.

Steve Jones

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