“The reader is someone with an attention span of about 30 seconds.” — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
For years, particularly with the advent of the Internet, people have been griping about lessening attention spans. — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
A short attention span makes all of your perceptions and relationships shallow and unsatisfying. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
You have the attention span of a large bug, and yet I don't feel good enough about myself to not date you. — Dov Davidoff Copy Share Image
I don't like reading scripts because I'm everywhere, and I have such a short attention span. — Amanda Bynes Copy Share Image
“It really does suck having the attention span of a coconut-laden swallow” — Mark Tufo Copy Share Image
I have a low attention span so if you dont make yourself relevant I will convert my attention elsewhere — Danielle Lobbins Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as an attention span. There is only the quality of what you are viewing. This whole idea… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
In my head, I'm a purist that doesn't require anything but a group of good friends and a bottle of wine. In… — Dan Levy Copy Share Image
For me, whether it's in a book or on T.V., a recipe has to be simple. I have a short attention span,… — Al Roker Copy Share Image
People's attentions spans are getting shorter and shorter. I don't want to cater to that necessarily but, just for myself, it feels… — Phil Elvrum Copy Share Image
I think people are really desperate for conversations. I'm really fascinated by the idea that at the same time, the internet is… — Moshe Kasher Copy Share Image
You and I and everyone else have the attention span of gnats. And that means that saying or doing anything once simply… — Gene Simmons Copy Share Image
The way the media cycle works, the way the news works, and the way people's attention span works, is that we only… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
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… — Amy Sherman-Palladino Copy Share Image
Radio was, in a way, a very philosophical medium. You could make an argument on the radio, and people listened to it.… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
The attention span of children may be one of the main reasons why an immersion in on-screen reading is so engaging, and… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
Imagine what our culture would be like if Americans sold ideas, words, and books with the same creativity we use to sell… — Jim Trelease Copy Share Image
I don't think people really do listen. We plug into music, and we have short attention spans. We tend to download individual… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
Poetry of all the forms of literature I think is the most suited for the digital age and for the shorter attention… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
The desire to do different things was the main motivator that made me leave late night because I'd been there seven years.… — Andy Richter Copy Share Image
Our attention span is shot. We've all got Attention Deficit Disorder or ADD or OCD or one of these disorders with three… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
I wrote the column. I - you know, - the column simply said that [Clay] Felker is destroying this paper. And I… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
“This poem is very long So long, in fact, that your attention span May be stretched to its very limits But that’s… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
...One of the most important lessons, perhaps, is the fact that SOFTWARE IS HARD. From now on I shall have significantly greater… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
“Look around you,” the stranger said. “Can’t you see that we are living amongst the ruins of our civilisation?” The words seemed… — Mark Samuels Copy Share Image
“Let’s think back for a moment to the boring sermon. Sometimes the sermon we hear is boring because it went on for… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“Here was, arguably, the central issue of the Trump presidency, informing every aspect of Trumpian policy and leadership: he didn’t process information… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“When we suffer prolonged anxiety, we have a tendency to become self-obsessed...You believe the whole world is thinking about you constantly. You… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
I didn't really want to be an actor when I was growing up - I wanted to be whatever I was reading… — Jason Sudeikis Copy Share Image
“believed that many chemicals widely used today are wreaking havoc on all of us, particularly on young children whose brains, immune systems,… — Alan Bell Copy Share Image
![“I wrote the column. I - you know, - the column simply said that [Clay] Felker is destroying this paper. And I heard that he was about ready to fire me, but two other people on The Voice interceded and, fortunately, he had a very short attention span, so I wasn't fired.” quote by Nat Hentoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f90/nat-hentoff-1615_attention_i-wrote-the-column-i-you-know-the-column_2228462.jpg)
