Top 1200 Short Attention Span Quotes & Sayings

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

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.

A short attention span makes all of your perceptions and relationships shallow and unsatisfying.

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.

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

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

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 would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that.

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!

Everyone has a really short attention span, and you have to bombard them with content, content, content.

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.

I have a very short attention span, so books have never been my thing.

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.

Films to the degree that they glorify mindlessness and short attention span they are bad, to the degree that they encourage empathy with people not like ourselves and encourage us to think about life, they are good.

I was pretty anti-academic, and I wasn't much of a student. I had a really short attention span and did not get a lot out of high school academically. I think college was a little the same way.

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

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.

I must admit that I was always scared to venture out on my own because I have an issue of getting bored of things. My attention span is very short. I like to start and give up halfway.

I've got a very short attention span, and this has been part of the reason I'm so kind of dumbfounded at the fact that I've still stayed with music. Nothing has ever stuck for me, and music's the only thing that's managed to stick out for a long period of time.

I have a short attention span. I couldn't stay doing the same thing for 30 years.

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'm not a long movie person. I have a very short attention span. If you give me a 90-minute movie, that's perfect. When it gets to be two hours, that's a little bit too long for me.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.

I have a very short attention span.

I get bored quickly. Always have. Short attention span.

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.

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

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

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

I wrote the column. I - you know, - the column simply said that [Clay] Felker is destroying this paper. And I heard that he was about ready to fire me, but two other people on The Voice interceded and, fortunately, he had a very short attention span, so I wasn't fired.

We have populations now in the West with a very short memory span. One reason for this short memory span is that television over the last fifteen years has seen a big decline in the coverage of the rest of the world.

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

Plus the public's attention span is so short right now, if a skater doesn't strike while the iron is hot... well it's not like people will forget you, but they just won't care anymore.

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.

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.

Attention spans are short. Like, eight seconds short. That's why it's necessary to grab people's attention immediately.

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

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.

For me, whether it's in a book or on T.V., a recipe has to be simple. I have a short attention span, so to open a cookbook and see a recipe that goes on for three to four pages, well, I've lost interest.

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.

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

I feel very short-attention span for like accomplishment. It's like 'oh that felt really good' and then it's kind of like an immediate emptiness of I need to make something else - I don't like to dwell on things too long.

My attention span was quite short and I just wanted to use a lot of beautiful words. When I read a poem like 'Howl', or 'Lady Lazarus' by Sylvia Plath, I felt myself being moved - I wanted to do that for other people.

I have a short attention span.

My attention span is very short.

I sometimes worry about my short attention span, but not for long.

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 guess I have a short attention span! I'm interested in new worlds, new universes, new challenges.

As a reader, I have a very short attention span and a low tolerance for boredom, and I find that comes in handy with my writing. If I get bored writing something, I pity the people who will then try to read it.

I have a short attention span, so when one book isn't working out, I just work on another.

I like Twitter because I'm a creature of the short-attention span theater. I can get a lot of sports opinions and other things and Twitter tells me what time it is, but not how to make the watch.

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

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

Americans continue to suffer from a notoriously short attention span. They get mad as hell with reasonable frequency, but quickly return to their families and sitcoms. Meanwhile, the corporate lobbies stay right where they are, outlasting all the populist hysteria.

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.

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

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.

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

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.