Attention Span Quotes

84 quotes by 81 authors

I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that. — Octavia Butler
Children from like 8 and even up to the college age - Spider-Man appeals to a fairly broad demographic but, like I said, a mean… — Thomas Haden Church
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… — Ian Anderson
He has the attention span of a lightning bolt. — Robert Redford
The ultimate pitch for an era of short attention spans begins with a single word - and doesn't go any further. — Daniel H. Pink
I want people to be drawn into the space of the work. And a lot of people are like me in that they have relatively… — Barbara Kruger
One of the great things about being an actor is it serves a short attention span, which is something I have. — Allison Mack
In this age of micro-blogging and two second sound bites, almost no one has the attention span, or time, to read more than a few… — Tim Frick
Technology is killing us. We think it's helping us but it's killing us. Don't ask me why because I don't have the time or the… — Thom Yorke
Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days. — Bill Griffith
Americans continue to suffer from a notoriously short attention span. They get mad as hell with reasonable frequency, but quickly return to their families and… — Eric Alterman
Civilizationâ€™s shortening attention span is mismatched with the pace of environmental problems. — Stewart Brand
Films to the degree that they glorify mindlessness and short attention span they are bad, to the degree that they encourage empathy with people not… — Roger Ebert
You and I and everyone else have the attention span of gnats. And that means that saying or doing anything once simply doesn't work. — Gene Simmons
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… — Sophie Ellis Bextor
Being effective at social media, whether for business or personal use, means capturing people who have short attention spans. They're only a click away from… — Alexis Ohanian
You donâ€™t pay attention man/thatâ€™s why your money is the size of your attention span. — J Dilla
Developers have the attention spans of slightly moronic woodland creatures. — Linus Torvalds
...One of the most important lessons, perhaps, is the fact that SOFTWARE IS HARD. From now on I shall have significantly greater respect for every… — Donald Knuth
The first thing you learn when you're blogging is that people are one click away from leaving you. So you've got to get to the… — Alex Tabarrok

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