Attention Span Quotes - Page 3

• To be clear, I worry as much about the impact of the Internet as anyone else. I worry about shortening attention spans, the physical cost of sedentary "surfing" and the potential for coarsening discourse as millions of web pages compete for attention by appealing to our base instincts.

  Andrew Weil

  Impact, Worry, Surfing

  "Fortunately, 'Corn Sugar' Has Become a Sticky PR Mess" by Dr. Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 24, 2010.

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

  Michael Morpurgo

  Children, Attention, Remember

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• The dominant theory coming out of Hollywood is that peoples' attention spans are getting shorter and shorter and they need more stimulation.

  Brian Eno

  Hollywood, Needs, Attention

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• This story is the ultimate example of American’s biggest political problem. We no longer have the attention span to deal with any twenty-first century crisis. We live in an economy that is immensely complex and we are completely at the mercy of the small group of people who understand it – who incidentally often happen to be the same people who built these wildly complex economic systems. We have to trust these people to do the right thing, but we can’t, because, well, they’re scum. Which is kind of a big problem, when you think about it.

  Matt Taibbi

  Thinking, People, Political

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

  Darynda Jones

  Attention, Shiny Things, Ifs

  Darynda Jones (2015). “The Charley Davidson Series”, p.189, St. Martin's Press

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• 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.

  Rachel Cohn

  Girl, Fall, Fruit Flies

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• Developers have the attention spans of slightly moronic woodland creatures.

  Linus Torvalds

  Attention, Woodland Creatures, Developers

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• 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.

  Sophie Ellis Bextor

  People, Attention, Littles

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• 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.

  Gene Simmons

  Inspirational, Mean, Gnats

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• 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.

  Roger Ebert

  Thinking, People, Empathy

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

  J Dilla

  Men, Attention, Pay

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• I don't think people really do listen. We plug into music, and we have short attention spans. We tend to download individual tracks from iTunes rather than a whole album. We buy music DVDs and watch them once, and then they disappear into a drawer, or we loan them to a friend, and we never watch it again.

  Ian Anderson

  Thinking, Dvds, People

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• The ultimate pitch for an era of short attention spans begins with a single word - and doesn't go any further.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Communication, Attention, Eras

  Daniel H. Pink (2012). “To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others”, p.108, Penguin

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

  Courteney Cox

  Attention, Terrible, Knows

  "Courteney Cox Talks Directorial Debut JUST BEFORE I GO, Gus Van Sant’s Advice, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 26, 2015.

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• 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.

  Rita Dove

  Thinking, Age, Attention

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. November 19, 2009.

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• I don't necessarily want to direct because it's too much work and I don't have the attention span to stay with it that long. But I think getting everyone together on something that appeals to me and developing the material is something that I like to do.

  Patrick Dempsey

  Thinking, Long, Together

  "Made of Honour - Patrick Dempsey interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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

  David Crosby

  Writing, Attention, Drunkenness

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• Land of snap decisions, land of short attention spans, nothing is savored long enough to really understand.

  Joni Mitchell

  Land, Long, Decision

  Song: Dog Eat Dog, Album: Dog Eat Dog

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• I don't go on the Internet. I never go on the Internet. I don't go on Twitter. I'm not on Facebook. I've seen friends go into dark, dark holes of sadness because of that. Frankly, I don't have the time or the attention span for it.

  Amy Sherman-Palladino

  Sadness, Dark, Attention

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

  Lauren Bacall

  Long, Attention

  "Interview with Lauren Bacall". "CNN Larry King Live", transcripts.cnn.com. May 6, 2005.

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• 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.

  Max Greenfield

  Character, Pilots, Attention

  "Talking Schmidt: Why We're Rooting for New Girl's Max Greenfield at the Emmy's". Interview with Bruce Handy an Juli Weiner, www.vanityfair.com. September 20, 2012.

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• The good thing about playing the guitar: You can take on different kinds of music. I'm always doing something different from the last thing I did because I have the shortest attention span on earth.

  Ryan Adams

  Guitar, Different, Attention

  Interview with Amanda Petrusich, pitchfork.com. March 1, 2004.

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• 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.

  Robin McKinley

  Kids, Thinking, Next

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

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Stuff, Attention, Television

  Source: collider.com

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

  Nick Rhodes

  Thinking, Long, Attention

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