A Quote by Claire Fox

There's a palpable frustration with the assumption that everyone who's under the age of 25 has got the attention span of a gnat and isn't interested in events and ideas.

Claire Fox

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Age Assumption Attention Attention Span Events Everyone Frustration Got Ideas Interested Palpable Span

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Claire Fox
British - Writer
Born: June 5, 1960

I think we have the attention span of a gnat. You know, with cell phones and Twitter.

Jeff Daniels

If you come to any of my live shows, you'll see, it's very frenetic. I have the attention span of a gnat.

Howie Mandel

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'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

My laziness is really profound. I'm really interested in where it comes from - it almost feels chemical. And we've all got ADD now, short attention span and all that.

Hugh Grant

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

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

Empathy is why entertainment is always growing, and for millennials, everyone is judging them and trying to grab their attention by insulting them. We're living in a time where everyone has 25 profiles, and they're having 25 conversations.

Alia Shawkat

I've got no attention span.

Charlie Brooker

I've got the attention span of a child.

Ricky Gervais

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

You and I and everyone else have the attention span of gnats. And that means that saying or doing anything once simply doesn't work.

Gene Simmons

Being a member of the Nintendo generation, I've got a really short attention span.

Jesse Kellerman

Everyone's attention span these days is limited to how long it takes to flick the iPod wheel on to the next song.

Mat McNerney

In this age of micro-blogging and two second sound bites, almost no one has the attention span, or time, to read more than a few sentences.

Tim Frick

I don't feel like the album format is sacred anymore, and things have got to change. I don't listen to music in terms of albums anymore. I've got a short attention span.

Jamie Hince

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