Theatre is a more difficult visual medium than films. You need to hold the attention span of the audience without goofing up… — Poonam Dhillon Copy Share Image
They say nobody has the attention span to read great books early in life. If I start to read something good, I'll… — Nick Tosches Copy Share Image
“The most dangerous thing about an academic education is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize stuff, to get lost in abstract… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I have a long attention span, and I am also a good scientist, and there are a lot of problems that remain… — Sandra Lerner Copy Share Image
I was quite hyperactive as a young kid, and then when I got to high school I was just the class clown.… — Joe Wicks Copy Share Image
There's a palpable frustration with the assumption that everyone who's under the age of 25 has got the attention span of a… — Claire Fox Copy Share Image
Technology is causing a set of seemingly disconnected things - shortening of attention spans, polarization, outrage-ification of culture, mass narcissism, election engineering,… — Tristan Harris Copy Share Image
As a reader, I have a very short attention span and a low tolerance for boredom, and I find that comes in… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
“We have become a more juvenile culture. We have become a childish "me, me, me" culture with fifteen-second attention spans. The global… — Wes Jackson Copy Share Image
I've never wanted to do just one thing. I don't have an attention span for that. I can focus really well on… — Christopher Jackson Copy Share Image
Pilots are so hard because you have to introduce all these characters, you have to hook an audience, and an audience has… — Max Greenfield Copy Share Image
The good thing about playing the guitar: You can take on different kinds of music. I'm always doing something different from the… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
I hate the idea of being inspired by something and having a short attention span. So many good ideas just dissolve due… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I feel very short-attention span for like accomplishment. It's like 'oh that felt really good' and then it's kind of like an… — Borns Copy Share Image
I sometimes get in the car [and] jump all around hunting for a sample, and then I can get really annoying if… — Girl Talk Copy Share Image
“The episodic, reactive, almost frantic pace of what is broadcast makes children feel and act frantic and shortens their attention spans and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There were scenes that just for length purposes, and knowing that the attention span of kids is not great, don't make it… — John Badham Copy Share Image
I have an extraordinary attention span. I manage to juggle two or three different ideas at the same time, and that's probably… — Paul Newman Copy Share Image
Pat Moynihan could write books with one hand and legislate with the other. I can't; I have a short attention span. The… — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
Now, for my younger viewers out there, a book is something we used to have before the internet. It’s sort of a… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
I don't have a background in music... and I have a short attention span. If you put me in the studio every… — SZA Copy Share Image
In this age of micro-blogging and two second sound bites, almost no one has the attention span, or time, to read more… — Tim Frick Copy Share Image
The richness of Africa, culturally, is vast. That's the challenge that we have to face, because most of the time, people in… — Angelique Kidjo Copy Share Image
I'm the perfect kind of personality for making YouTube videos. I deal in short attention span theater. I do wild things. — Steve-O Copy Share Image
Today's children have very short attention spans because they are being reared on dreadful television programmes which are flickering away in the… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
When I was young, and I would see bands playing, I would dig the rock & roll and get excited, but when… — Angus Young Copy Share Image
With so many young playwrights, the true craft of writing for living voices is not what it used to be. They write… — Athol Fugard Copy Share Image
Films to the degree that they glorify mindlessness and short attention span they are bad, to the degree that they encourage empathy… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
As a person who has a pretty short attention span I think of music like that, completely. That's why I can quite… — Thighpaulsandra Copy Share Image
I think kids who have music in their lives are more focused. They have better attention spans. They excel more in their… — Ingrid Michaelson Copy Share Image
I'm not a great reader, believe it or not. It's not the vocabulary - my father made me read the dictionary when… — David Robinson Copy Share Image
The first thing you learn when you're blogging is that people are one click away from leaving you. So you've got to… — Alex Tabarrok Copy Share Image
I definitely come from that background of the more subtle shifts, the long build... rather than the quick short-attention span dynamic. — Bonobo Copy Share Image
The attention span of a computer is only as long as its electrical cord — Dan Rather Copy Share Image
As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short. — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
Being close to nature, in general, helps boost a child's attention span. — Richard Louv Copy Share Image