A Quote by Selena Gomez

My attention span is all over the place, and I overthink things. I'm an insomniac.

Selena Gomez

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Attention Attention Span Insomniac Over Place Span Things

Quote Author

Selena Gomez
American - Actress
Born: July 22, 1992

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

Insomniac is an impassioned work-an inspired amalgam of academic and first-hand research, memoir, analysis, and the kind of obsessive brooding we associate with the insomniac state. Much here is fascinating, and much is upsetting; here is a cri de coeur from a lifetime insomniac that is sure to appeal to the vast army of fellow insomniacs the world over.

Joyce Carol Oates

The challenge of nonfiction is keeping the attention of a reader over span of time, and to keep the quality of the writing as high as it needs to be to keep people's attention.

Ted Genoways

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

My short attention span has allowed me a life of diversity in work and place.

Maira Kalman

I'd have a longer attention span if there weren't so many shiny things.

Darynda Jones

The desire to do different things was the main motivator that made me leave late night because I'd been there seven years. The combination of an entrepreneurial desire to see how far I could push my success and a short attention span. But now I've done other things. And I'm sort of ready to sit somewhere and sit in the same place for a while.

Andy Richter

The average human attention span was 12 seconds in 2000 and 8 seconds in 2013. A drop of 33%. The scary part is that the attention span of a goldfish was 9 seconds, almost 13% more than us humans. That's why it's getting tougher by the day to get people to turn the page. Maybe we writers ought to try writing for goldfish!

Ashwin Sanghi

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 the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.

Ian Somerhalder

I'm an insomniac, so my perfect reader is probably another insomniac.

John Burnside

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

Allison Mack

I have a terrible attention span, so if something can keep my attention, I know that that's at least a great start.

Courteney Cox

The plot details of B movies are irrational: accept that people do things that are contradictory, against their own best interests, have short term aims & limited attention span, and do incredibly stupid things while things blow up. Apart from things blowing up, this is just like the music industry.