Top 599 Span Quotes & Sayings - Page 4
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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
Mindful parenting is the hardest job on the planet, but it's also one that has the potential for the deepest kinds of satisfactions over the life span, and the greatest feelings of interconnectedness and community and belonging.
Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries.
If I could wear any label forever it would be Burberry. It covers a huge span of stuff. You can't go wrong with a classic trench and a pair of jeans.
Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it!
I think Trump's attention span is super low. I don't think he has the expertise to actually run a foreign policy.
Most of the jobs I had when I was younger, I got fired from. I never had the attention span.
Man's natural life span, 75 to 90 years or so, has not increased. It is the number of us who manage to attain it that has increased.
I fail to see what difference it makes whether it be supernatural or not--so long as it is malefic, possesses great powers and life span and has the ability to change its shape at will.
Of course, it would help if she could stay focused, but she had the attention span of a sick flea.’ (Sunshine)
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.
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.
Although we take it for granted, sanitation is a physical measure that has probably done more to increase human life span than any kind of drug or surgery.
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 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.
People only worry about the uncanny for about a week; that's the end of their attention span. After that, suspicions turn into shtick.
Feeling and experiencing infinity within this finite body, living timelessness within the time span of life - this is what you are here for
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.
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.
It’s up to you to carve out your place, to know when to change course, and to keep yourself engaged and productive during a work life that may span some 50 years.
As the installments in the 'Immortals After Dark' series span simultaneous timelines, making sure the details remained accurate was a hair-raising/losing exercise.
At moments of wonder, it is easy to avoid small thinking, to entertain thoughts that span the universe, that capture both thunder and tinkle, thick and thin, the near and the far.
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.
Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.
I have a very short attention span, so sitting down with a book is very difficult for me.
A lot of television tends to assume that audiences don't have the attention span or the IQ to follow a lot of stuff.
I have the attention span of a 2-year-old. I like to jump from project-to-project.
Before I tell you my story," Jasper said. "you must understand that there are places in our world, Bella, where the life span of the never-aging is measured in weeks, and not centuries.
Our houses are at least 12 feet under water. All you can see on TV are rooftops. And the bridge we came across, the I-10 twin span, is now split.
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.
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.
People are capable of great, great change during the span of one lifetime. And women even more than men.
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.
I tore both of my ACLs. I broke my right patella. I tore my left pec, all within about a 2 1/2-year span.
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.
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.
Rather, my perceptions about how we solve problems in health care or education span across a whole range of areas. And I want to try to capture that complexity.
Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a night when choice was any more than the sum of all the choices gone before?
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.
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.
It is the cells which create and maintain in us, during the span of our lives, our will to live and survive, to search and experiment, and to struggle.
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.
When God at first made man, Having a glass of blessings standing by, 'Let us,'said he,'pour on him all we can: Let the world's riches, which disperse' d lie, Contract into a span'.
I have a terrible attention span, so if something can keep my attention, I know that that's at least a great start.
It sounds good to say, 'We're going to do this,' on C-SPAN, but try to do that in real life, and it's not going to work.
I'm the sort of person with a very short attention span, and I lose interest in things very quickly.
If I could reach from pole to pole
or grasp the ocean with a span,
I would be measured by the soul
The mind's the standard of the Man.
Our families don't always cross the finish line in the span of one generation. But each generation passes on to the next the fruits of their labor.
In one century, we've added 28 years to our average life span - a change so rapid that our brains couldn't possibly have evolved to accommodate it.
What I normally do as an actor in playing different roles, I just have to do in a span of three seconds sometimes, so I think I'm lucky that I've been doing it so long that I can do it rather quickly.
Lower caloric exposure and episodic fasting can extend the life span of all animals, the longer we spend in the catabolic state, the longer we live.
The short span of life forbids us to spin out hope to any length. Soon will night be upon you, and the fabled Shades, and the shadowy Plutonian home.
Life is short. If you doubt me, ask a butterfly. Their average life span is a mere five to fourteen days.
His words span rivers and mountains, but his thoughts are still only six inches long.
I'm an expert on surfing the channels, so I'm always able to find something strange. Or I watch C-Span. I can watch a conference on oceanography, or whatever, for hours.
I have a short attention span, so I go through short nerd-out phases.
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.
Our life's a moment and less than a moment, but even this mite nature has mockingly humored with some appearance of a longer span.
Caring for someone is scary, because you both know how it feels to lose someone in the span of a heartbeat.
When I look back at the span that Mr. Big lasted, we had some unbelievable times. But there were grueling times, too.
