Short Attention Spans Quotes - Page 2

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

  Doug Liman

  Independent, Attention, Directors

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

  Eckhart Tolle

  Perception, Attention, Shallow

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.174, Penguin

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

  Herb Caen

  Long, Worry, Attention

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• 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.

  Courteney Cox

  Two, Long, Giving

  "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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• 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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• 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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