Top 1200 Attention Span Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I have a very short attention span, so sitting down with a book is very difficult for me.

I definitely come from that background of the more subtle shifts, the long build... rather than the quick short-attention span dynamic.

They made a three-hour 'Raw,' but two hours is about my time limit. I ain't got that kind of attention span.

One thing I always loved about vinyl was the length of a side, around 20 or 22 minutes. That's the perfect length of an attention span for listening time, you know? You could listen and give it all your attention. Put on something that's 70 minutes, and nobody's sticking around past the first 20 or 30 minutes.

I've got a short attention span, so it makes sense that I like movies because, for the most part, they immerse you in lots of action.

I have a very short attention span, which is funny. I mean, you'd watch me and think that I don't, but I actually do.

I have a short attention span, so I go through short nerd-out phases.

If someone can watch an entire season of a TV series in one day, doesnt that show an incredible attention span?

Pat Moynihan could write books with one hand and legislate with the other. I can't; I have a short attention span. The slightest distraction would take me away from writing.

In a country where people's attention span is short and they are holding the clicker in their hand, and they got a hundred other options, you have to basically understand what the audience is responding to. If you don't, you're going to fail.

I'm the sort of person with a very short attention span, and I lose interest in things very quickly.

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.

There were scenes that just for length purposes, and knowing that the attention span of kids is not great, don't make it much longer than about 90 minutes.

In a world where the body politic has the attention span at times of a goldfish, yep, you've got to have the ability to reinvent yourself in this game many times.

People only worry about the uncanny for about a week; that's the end of their attention span. After that, suspicions turn into shtick.

I was quite hyperactive as a young kid, and then when I got to high school I was just the class clown. I didn't have much of an attention span.

I think Trump's attention span is super low. I don't think he has the expertise to actually run a foreign policy.

In my head, I'm a purist that doesn't require anything but a group of good friends and a bottle of wine. In reality, I'm co-dependent on my iPhone and fully conscious of the fact that my attention span is corroding.

I don't have much of an attention span for TV - I nod off during the basketball playoffs - but when I watch 'Game of Thrones' on On Demand, I'm glued to the set. It's mystical and addictive. Tyrion Lannister, that's my man.

I don't have a background in music... and I have a short attention span. If you put me in the studio every day, I'm gonna get lost.

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

I have an extraordinary attention span. I manage to juggle two or three different ideas at the same time, and that's probably - if I have a gift, that's probably the best gift that's given me.

A friend gave me a drug for attention deficit disorder, because he's afflicted, but I'm not. So what happened to me is I suddenly had an extra-long attention span. People would tell me a story, and it would end, and I'd get all mad. "Come on, man, there has to be more to that story."

I realize I am contradictory: I have an independent filmmaker's sensibility and a Hollywood director's short-attention span.

If someone can watch an entire season of a TV series in one day, doesn't that show an incredible attention span?

I think, first of all, you know, Washington has a bad habit of a very short attention span.

I have the attention span of a 2-year-old. I like to jump from project-to-project.

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

I'm the perfect kind of personality for making YouTube videos. I deal in short attention span theater. I do wild things.

Everyone has a really short attention span nowadays with social media, our phones. Even me - I can't go without touching my phone every five minutes.

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

I'm not really one for reading books. I have a very poor attention span. I'd rather listen to music, play games or watch films on my iPad.

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.

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.

TV works at such amazing deadlines and the audiences you're catering to is a very different audience than the one that watches films as the attention span is less.

Learning lines is hard for me because I have the attention span of a six year old. That's why being on planes all the time is so useful - I'm forced to learn out of boredom.

Most of the jobs I had when I was younger, I got fired from. I never had the attention span.

A lot of television tends to assume that audiences don't have the attention span or the IQ to follow a lot of stuff.

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.

Silence is Golden; it has divine power and immense energy. Try to pay more attention to the silence than to the sounds. Paying attention to outer silence creates inner silence: the mind becomes still. Every sound is born out of silence, dies back into silence, and during its life span is surrounded by silence. Silence enables the sound to be. It is an intrinsic but unmanifested part of every sound, every musical note, every song, and every word. The unmanifested is present in this world as silence. All you have to do is pay attention to it.

With social networks these days, everyone needs to know everything all the time. But the problem is, people are so used to short snippets of information that no one has any attention span anymore. I don't, anyway.

I have an extraordinary attention span. I manage to juggle two or three different ideas at the same time, and that's probably, if I have a gift, that's probably the best gift that's given me.

This is the great luxury of not working: the moment you read a book that has nothing to do with work, you know you're really relaxed. And I have a sh*t attention span. I can't concentrate for more than five minutes.

I can sketch up a storm, and I'm very involved in how clothes are constructed, but I have a short attention span.

According to USA today, the average length of an attention span of a man in America is 23 minutes.

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

As a person who has a pretty short attention span I think of music like that, completely. That's why I can quite happily change genres mid-song.

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

My biggest flaw is probably my attention span or lack thereof. And while it might seem contradictory, my biggest strength is my work ethic.

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.

Of course, it would help if she could stay focused, but she had the attention span of a sick flea.’ (Sunshine)

I have a long attention span, and I am also a good scientist, and there are a lot of problems that remain in the organic agricultural movement that the government does not invest in solving.

The first TV babies are now writing with a TV mind that has no attention span at all.

The richness of Africa, culturally, is vast. That's the challenge that we have to face, because most of the time, people in the western world, their attention span is really narrow.

People have got no attention span these days with music - I come from the time where I bought the whole album and listened to it back to back.

I'm usually two projects ahead. It's hard for me because I don't have a really long attention span.

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

I have kind of a short attention span, so if it doesn't come really quick then I set it down, and hopefully come back to it another time.

I don't have a good attention span and can't spend long in record stores or video shops or games emporiums without getting grumpy.

Pilots are so hard because you have to introduce all these characters, you have to hook an audience, and an audience has such a smaller attention span than maybe they used to have.