A Quote by Jerry Seinfeld

People have an infinite attention span if you are entertaining them.

Jerry Seinfeld

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Attention Attention Span Entertaining Infinite People Span Them

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Jerry Seinfeld
American - Comedian
Born: April 29, 1954

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

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

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

At the end of the day, we all watch sports and we pay attention to different things here and there because we find things entertaining. But, I think if the product is entertaining, people will enjoy it and watch it. If the product isn't entertaining, they won't.

Chase Elliott

I want to create a body of work that is entertaining and speaks to people for a long time. Longer than my life span.

Jack O'Connell

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

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

The first thing you learn when you're blogging is that people are one click away from leaving you. So you've got to get to the point, you can't waste people's time, you've got to give them some value for their limited attention span.

Alex Tabarrok

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

I wanted to remind people that there was a time when music required an attention span.

Mark Kozelek

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

Meg Rosoff

People have a very short attention span when it comes to television, but nobody forgets the movie you do.

Ayushmann Khurrana

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

Meg Rosoff

I like entertaining people. I like being on stage. I like being in the life. This is what I do. This is the only thing I know how to do besides rob people and fight. Even when I was robbing people, I was entertaining them. But that's just what I love doing.

Mike Tyson

A span of life is nothing. But the man who lives that span, he is something. He can fill that tiny span with meaning, so its quality is immeasurable though its quantity may be insignificant.

Chaim Potok

You don’t pay attention man/that’s why your money is the size of your attention span.

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