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
Our attention spans have been reduced by the immediate gratification provided by smartphones and social media. — Katherine Ryan 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
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
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
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
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
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
“We live in a society that is based on 30-second sound bites. We have technology that puts all of the information of… — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
Children from like 8 and even up to the college age - Spider-Man appeals to a fairly broad demographic but, like I… — Thomas Haden Church Copy Share Image
We're not cognitively equipped to deal with it. And it's becoming a problem, frankly. It's part of the reason why I quit… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
“The imaginary child implied by the toys on exhibit in Hong Kong was impossible to reconcile with my actual child. I didn't… — Donovan Hohn 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
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 have been so struck by the mettle of the men who founded this country and wrote the Constitution. What unbelievable persistence… — Rosanne Cash Copy Share Image
We live in a time of short attention spans and long stories. The short attention spans are seen as inevitable, the consequence… — Tom Junod 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
Our sport is surrounded by nine seconds, and that's how long the attention span is for fans: if you can grasp those… — Justin Gatlin 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
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
One of the great things about being an actor is it serves a short attention span, which is something I have. — Allison Mack 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
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 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
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
I'm very conscious of people having pretty short attention spans: I know, I'm guilty of it. I'm 17 now: what happens by… — Lorde Copy Share Image
Of course, it would help if she could stay focused, but she had the attention span of a sick flea.’ (Sunshine) — Sherrilyn Kenyon 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 have kind of a short attention span, so if it doesn't come really quick then I set it down, and hopefully… — Ryan Bingham 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
I bought a guitar CD-ROM because we had a new computer, but I had no attention span for that. I spent about… — James Bay 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
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
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
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
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
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'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
