Top 1200 Short Attention Spans Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

The reason I became an actor was applause and being the center of attention. So, short of that, Twitter is probably a good alternative.

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

You can write when you're dyslexic, you just can't read it. But I started writing short stories as a child and I found the short story format a real nice one. I love short stories and I love short documentaries or short films of any kind.

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

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

People who lived in the 1920s and '30s and '40s were not so different from us. In some ways, they were probably better citizens than we are. They had longer attention spans, for example. Educated people tended to read a bit more than we did.

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

I think for any actor to say they don't like attention is ridiculous. Of course we love attention. But getting attention is different than pretending the attention means something.

TV spots are short. If you can't hold folks' attention for 20 seconds before revealing the brand, find another line of work.

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

Poetry of all the forms of literature I think is the most suited for the digital age and for the shorter attention spans and all of that. It Twitters very easily, some lyric poems and it's very easy to zip a poem to someone, so that's one of the things I think is wonderful about poetry in the digital age.

Attention to any subject will in a short time render it attractive, be it ever so disagreeable and tedious at first.

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

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

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

Learning to focus and pay attention, if only for a short time, has been identified as a primary key to the development of human effectiveness.

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

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

My breasts are beautiful, and I gotta tell you, they've gotten a lot of attention for what is relatively short screen time.

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

My attention span is very short.

I have a short attention span.

I have a very short attention span.

Dogs have such short life spans, it's like a concentrated version of a human life. When they get older, they become much more like our mothers. They wait for us, watch out for us, are completely fascinated by everything we do.

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.

From the simplest lyric to the most complex novel and densest drama, literature is asking us to pay attention. Pay attention to the frog. Pay attention to the west wind. Pay attention to the boy on the raft, the lady in the tower, the old man on the train. In sum, pay attention to the world and all that dwells therein and thereby learn at last to pay attention to yourself and all that dwells therein.

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

I'm not short," Daisy muttered. "Short women are never mysterious, or elegant, or pursued by handsome men. And they're always treated like children. I refuse to be short.

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

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

We’re only here for a short while. And I think it’s such a lucky accident, having been born, that we’re almost obliged to pay attention.

Some people like the same thing forever, but I don't know. We kind of, like, listen to loads of different stuff, and our attention spans aren't good enough. So there was a bit of frustration when you're, like, having to play the same thing all the time because we play all, like, loads of different instruments.

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

My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying.

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

Attention pays attention to a lot of things, but when attention pays attention to attention, then there is a stillness, and that stillness introduces you to your Self.

I try to use short sentences, short paragraphs and short chapters to keep the reader's interest.

In the opening stage of most careers any attention is what you want, any attention is good attention, even if it's bad attention.

You can't just pay attention to the short term, you just have to keep publishing.

Having the gastric sleeve procedure and losing 120 pounds, it was a huge difference in how I look in such a short amount of time. It really garnered all the attention.

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

I get a little cranky with the whole business about kids not having attention spans. This reminds me of the usual business of thinking that the next generation is hopeless. Every generation has said that about every younger generation.

We're not cognitively equipped to deal with it. And it's becoming a problem, frankly. It's part of the reason why I quit Facebook. We all hear these things and read reports about how our attention spans are shrinking. It makes me wonder about the generation growing up now, how it will affect their brain development.

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.

Arctic-dwelling Eskimos have no choice but to eat large amounts of meat and animal fat. But let's get our facts straight: according to the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Eskimos also have the highest incidences of heart disease and osteoporosis in the world and, in general, short life spans. Perhaps that is something to consider when we are faced with the choice of what to eat for dinner and unlike Eskimos most of us do have choices.

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 didn't ask to be short. I didn't want to be short. I've tried to pretend that being a short guy didn't matter.

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

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.

Sometimes ... the short short appears to rest on nothing more than a fragile anecdote which the writer has managed to drape with a quantity of suggestion. A single incident, a mere anecdote - these form the spine of the short short.

Our society does reward beauty on the outside over health on the inside. Women must not be blamed for choosing short-term beauty "fixes" that harm our long-term health, since our life spans are inverted under the beauty myth, and there is no great social or economic incentive for women to live a long time.

You can buy attention (advertising). You can beg for attention from the media (PR). You can bug people one at a time to get attention (sales). Or you can earn attention by creating something interesting and valuable and then publishing it online for free.

If you don't pay attention to the things that have your attention, you'll give them more attention than they deserve.

Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.

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

My only way of getting my uncles' attention or aunts' attention or whoever's attention was by dancing and singing around the house.

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

Iraq is short on capital, short on electricity, and short on management expertise, but it does not lack economic enthusiasm.