A Quote by Yeardley Smith

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

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Yeardley Smith
American - Actress
Born: July 3, 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

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

John Gutfreund

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

I don't think people really do listen. We plug into music, and we have short attention spans. We tend to download individual tracks from iTunes rather than a whole album. We buy music DVDs and watch them once, and then they disappear into a drawer, or we loan them to a friend, and we never watch it again.

Ian Anderson

I get a little cranky with the whole business about kids not having attention spans. This reminds me of the usual business of thinking that the next generation is hopeless. Every generation has said that about every younger generation.

Robin McKinley

Dogs have such short life spans, it's like a concentrated version of a human life. When they get older, they become much more like our mothers. They wait for us, watch out for us, are completely fascinated by everything we do.

Caroline Knapp

Nat doing 'Fault' was the greatest thing for our band, and the only reason that our song got in it because Nat was screaming it in the movie. Now we can say that we have a song in 'Fault in Our Stars,' and we have a thousand fans who went to listen to our music because we performed at an event for 'Fault in Our Stars.'

Alex Wolff

We're not cognitively equipped to deal with it. And it's becoming a problem, frankly. It's part of the reason why I quit Facebook. We all hear these things and read reports about how our attention spans are shrinking. It makes me wonder about the generation growing up now, how it will affect their brain development.

Ron Currie Jr.

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

Judith Viorst

Our attention spans have been reduced by the immediate gratification provided by smartphones and social media.

Katherine Ryan

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

Daniel H. Pink

Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days.

Bill Griffith

One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings.

Franklin A. Thomas

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

Barbara Kruger

There's nothing in your life or in our collective problems that does not require our ability to put our attention where we care about. At the end of our lives, all we have is our attention and our time.

Tristan Harris

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