The dominant theory coming out of Hollywood is that peoples' attention spans are getting shorter and shorter and they need more stimulation. — Brian Eno 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
Luckily, my limited attention span is well suited to the velocity of the news cycles. There's an assault of stories coming at… — Barry Blitt 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
The plot details of B movies are irrational: accept that people do things that are contradictory, against their own best interests, have… — Robert Fripp Copy Share Image
“I hate tricks. At the first sign of a trick or gimmick in a piece of fiction, a cheap trick or even… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
“I get into a tearing passion about something I know very little about, and when I learn more my passion ebbs away.” — John Buchan Copy Share Image
It kind of renews my faith in humankind that there's long attention spans left out there that can listen to a 12-minute… — Danny Carey Copy Share Image
There's time limits on how long people's attention spans will work. There's six weeks in each territory that you're really famous, then… — Sia Furler Copy Share Image
“I want to lengthen, not shorten, my attention span, and most of the material splendors of the twenty-first century bully me in… — Phillip Connors Copy Share Image
“One of my favorite apparent discrepancies—I read John for years without realizing how strange this one is—comes in Jesus’ “Farewell Discourse,” the… — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that. — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
I've got a very short attention span, and this has been part of the reason I'm so kind of dumbfounded at the… — Gin Wigmore Copy Share Image
Attention spans are so limited and ticket prices so high. We're anyway in a business of manipulating emotions. But each film needs… — Vijay Krishna Acharya Copy Share Image
“The addictive nature of Web browsing can leave you with an attention span of nine seconds—the same as a goldfish.” — Sally Hogshead Copy Share Image
People have a very short attention span when it comes to television, but nobody forgets the movie you do. — Ayushmann Khurrana Copy Share Image
Americans get mad as hell with reasonable frequency but quickly return to their families and sitcoms. — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
If you come to any of my live shows, you'll see, it's very frenetic. I have the attention span of a gnat. — Howie Mandel Copy Share Image
“The resource of generational history is accorded little attention our society, which seems ever more obsessed with making “new” and “better” synonymous.… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
“That girl could make friends with the meanest croc alive with little more than a smile and a laugh. You, on the… — Donna Kauffman 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
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
Our attention spans have been reduced by the immediate gratification provided by smartphones and social media. — Katherine Ryan Copy Share Image
