A Quote by Herb Caen

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

Herb Caen

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Herb Caen
American - Journalist
April 3, 1916 - February 1, 1997

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.

Jerry Seinfeld

I definitely come from that background of the more subtle shifts, the long build... rather than the quick short-attention span dynamic.

Bonobo

People only worry about the uncanny for about a week; that's the end of their attention span. After that, suspicions turn into shtick.

Scott Westerfeld

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.

Robert Kurson

I have a short attention span, so I go through short nerd-out phases.

Ron Livingston

One of the great things about being an actor is it serves a short attention span, which is something I have.

Allison Mack

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.

Courteney Cox

I have a short attention span.

Borns

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.

Nick Tosches

I have a very short attention span.

Frances McDormand

My attention span is very short.

will.i.am

I get bored quickly. Always have. Short attention span.

Rupert Friend

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

Michael Morpurgo

I have a very short attention span, so books have never been my thing.

Jason Jones

The average attention span of the modern human being is about half as long as whatever you're trying to tell them.

Meg Rosoff

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

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