A Quote by Ricky Reed

I have a short attention span. And when I'm in the middle of one thing, I'm then drawn to the next thing.

Ricky Reed

Quote Topics

Attention Attention Span Drawn Middle Next Next Thing One Thing Short Short Attention Span Span Then Thing

Quote Author

Ricky Reed
American - Musician

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

Jason Jones

I have a short attention span. I couldn't stay doing the same thing for 30 years.

Esther Dyson

I didn't care for beat reporting, covering the same thing day after day - short attention span.

Charles Portis

I feel like I am very drawn to the short form stuff because it's just fun to be making something, and then, a week later, it's out. I will always be drawn to that kind of thing.

Roman Coppola

I've never wanted to do just one thing. I don't have an attention span for that. I can focus really well on one thing - what's in front of me.

Christopher Jackson

When I do one thing for a long period of time, my attention is usually then drawn in the opposite direction.

Ryuichi Sakamoto

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

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.

Gin Wigmore

The good thing about playing the guitar: You can take on different kinds of music. I'm always doing something different from the last thing I did because I have the shortest attention span on earth.

Ryan Adams

Investors are impatient and they are also desperate for the 'next big thing,' and they are not paying attention to the fact that the 'next big thing' can be an economic crisis that they have created by being very irresponsible with their power.

Carmen Busquets

I have a short attention span.

Borns

Mindfulness has never been more important considering how the events of the world move in such an accelerated, frantic time. Our attention goes from here to the next thing to the next thing, and we're triggered from one response of fear to one of connection to the threat of loss.