Top 1200 Short Attention Span Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I'm a Gemini, and my attention span is limited. So, I don't dwell on long-term goals.

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

I've got the attention span of a child.

My attention span is all over the place, and I overthink things. I'm an insomniac.

The desire to do different things was the main motivator that made me leave late night because I'd been there seven years. The combination of an entrepreneurial desire to see how far I could push my success and a short attention span. But now I've done other things. And I'm sort of ready to sit somewhere and sit in the same place for a while.

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

I came to Hollywood to write and found out I don't have the attention span.

I've got a short memory span.

I used to play video games all the time, but now I don't because I don't have an attention span.

The short span of life forbids us to take on far-reaching hopes.

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

I don't have the attention span for sports.

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

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

If you can present your case clearly and visually, anyone can understand it. No one has an attention span.

I have no attention span. I get bored so fast.

A fellow with the inventiveness of Albert Einstein but with the attention span of Daffy Duck.

I am not at all in a rush to make a career that only lasts for a short span of time.

The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.

Short attention span is the new avant-garde. Everyone complains that we can no longer intake huge chunks of text. I find that a reason to celebrate. It's something that has deep roots in modernism, stretching from the Futurists' use of typography to Pound's use of ideograms to concrete poetry. David Markson feels particularly relevant now. Twitter is the revenge of modernism.

I think maybe my attention span is too long to tweet.

People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable.

My attention span was not great.

Drosophila,” I said, remembering the word. “What?” Lily asked. “Why do girls always fall for guys with the at ention span of drosophila?” “What?” “Fruit flies. Guys with the attention span of fruit flies.” “Because they’re hot?” “This,” I told her, “is not the time for being truthful.

He has the attention span of a hummingbird.

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.

I've heard people say that [I have a short attention span]. I don't feel I do, because when I'm interested in something I'll stay in focus as long as it is necessary... If you get off on something I'm not very interested in, it's very easy for me to block it out. It's easy for me to block things out.

My attention span, when it comes to exercise, is pretty minimal.

I don't have the attention span to practice sleight of hand.

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

College wasn't for us. We just didn't have the attention span.

I'm terrible at reading fiction. I don't have the attention span - it's awful.

Civilization’s shortening attention span is mismatched with the pace of environmental problems.

Our attention span is shot. We've all got Attention Deficit Disorder or ADD or OCD or one of these disorders with three letters because we don't have the time or patience to pronounce the entire disorder. That should be a disorder right there, TBD - Too Busy Disorder.

I'd have a longer attention span if there weren't so many shiny things.

People do not realize this, but my drug addiction was actually a short span of time. It was only for two years.

I'm not someone who has a lengthy attention span, and that applies to my exercise routine as well.

His (Frank Sinatra) attention span was not long, shall we say.

I did not succeed in life by intelligence. I succeeded because I have a long attention span.

The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.

You have the attention span of a large bug, and yet I don't feel good enough about myself to not date you.

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

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

I go through the text making sure I haven't used any big words. If I find any fancy adjectives have crept in, I replace them with small words like 'nice' and 'big'. I've liked these words ever since I was told not to use them in English class at school. After that, I check that the sentences are short so as people won't get confused and I shorten all the chapters so they won't get bored. I can't read anything complicated these days, my attention span is too short. Everyone else probably feels the same.

The plot details of B movies are irrational: accept that people do things that are contradictory, against their own best interests, have short term aims & limited attention span, and do incredibly stupid things while things blow up. Apart from things blowing up, this is just like the music industry.

I've got no attention span.

We had this idea, and I think a lot of people did going in, that you can make some short film and it's going to get industry attention and that's going to be your thing. And it was only later on at school that we realized that's very rare that a short film is going to capture the attention of anyone.

The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters.

Being close to nature, in general, helps boost a child's attention span.

I've always had a bad attention span.

My attention span is very limited, and I watch just one or two movies a year.

It takes me forever to read a book. I have such a small attention span.

While I was an addict, I didn't write anything. I didn't have the attention span or the will.

There will be a competition among critics for the best Paris Hilton insult. Here's my first: Her attention span is so short that she can't even maintain her concentration while running away from a psycho... Maybe the ultimate insult is that she makes her co-star Elisha Cuthbert seem, by comparison, the sexiest and most interesting actress in modern cinema.

In a short span of time, I happened to do quality films and managed a good fan-following.

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.

He has the attention span of a lightning bolt.

Fear is a very explosive emotion, but it has a short life span. It's the sprint. The marathon is hope.

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.

I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.