A Quote by Octavia E. Butler

I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that.

Octavia E. Butler

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Octavia E. Butler
American - Writer
June 22, 1947 - February 24, 2006

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

Jason Jones

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

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 long attention span, and I am also a good scientist, and there are a lot of problems that remain in the organic agricultural movement that the government does not invest in solving.

Sandra Lerner

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 feel very short-attention span for like accomplishment. It's like 'oh that felt really good' and then it's kind of like an immediate emptiness of I need to make something else - I don't like to dwell on things too long.

Borns

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

Ron Livingston

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

I have a short attention span.

Borns

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.

Barney Frank

I have a very short attention span.

Frances McDormand

My attention span is very short.

will.i.am

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

Michael Morpurgo

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

Rupert Friend

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

Herb Caen

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.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

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