Attention Quote by John Gutfreund Download Open image “The media, the polls and our legislatures fortunately have short attention spans.” — John Gutfreund ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Attention Attention span Fortunately Media Our Polls Short Spans
Without the media, the American people won't have the type of information they need to hold their leaders to account. The relationship between government… — Dan Bartlett Copy Share Image
Nobody looks at opinion polls with more attention than politicians, but of course you've got to remember that a single poll is a snapshot… — Malcolm Turnbull Copy Share Image
The media is supposed to be custodians of the facts and watchdogs of government. They have, for the most part, neglected to be either… — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
“One of the problems of a society as tightly controlled as ours is that we get so little information about what those of our fellow citizens whom we will never know or see are actually thinking and feeling. This seems a paradox when most politics today involves minute-by-minute poll taking on what looks to be every conceivable subject, but, as… — Gore Vidal Copy Share
The media is too concentrated, too few people own too much. There's really five companies that control 90 percent of what we read, see… — Ted Turner Copy Share Image
Most people don't take the long-term view. The media is more of a short-term reactionary view. — Joel Glazer Copy Share Image
You know, trust in the press, polls show - from Pew and other places - have gone down significantly over the years. Maybe the… — David Folkenflik Copy Share Image
“Once in a while a story is spectacular enough to break through and attract media attention, but the swell quickly subsides into the general… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
We have flooded ourselves with the media in all its many forms. Our minds are now open to signals. We have become aerials. — Jeff Noon Copy Share Image
People tend to assess the relative importance of issues by the ease with which they are retrieved from memory—and this is largely determined by… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
The media has been very bad about informing us about what is going on. They focus on surface things. They do not focus enough… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
Media has become a way that we think about our history. And the media moments are, for better or worse, how we contextualize our… — Rick Famuyiwa Copy Share Image
I don't have many regrets. I regret mistakes, particularly those that damage other people, and we've all made some of those. But I'm not… — John Gutfreund Copy Share Image
Proprietary stock-index arbitrage is but one aspect of program trading. Arbitrage will take place whenever there is an imbalance created in one or more… — John Gutfreund Copy Share Image
I have never been a social lion; I was misidentified as one because I have a very attractive second wife. — John Gutfreund Copy Share Image
People in Philadelphia are a world apart from New York. They're very different from people in the New York scene. The New York scene… — John Gutfreund Copy Share Image
I never thought of myself as a king. People really want you to be their deity. They forget the fact that you are a… — John Gutfreund Copy Share Image
Commercial banks are very good for certain businesses, like loans and guarding other people's money. They're not great investors or entrepreneurs. — John Gutfreund Copy Share Image
Shareholders share in the downside and not necessarily in the upside; that's the whole story. — John Gutfreund Copy Share Image
It appears to me that one great cause of our difference in opinion on subjects which we often discuss is that you have always… — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
People pay far too much attention to the television and they're quite literal in some ways. At the beginning, when I was playing very… — Ardal O'Hanlon Copy Share Image
Television, radio, social media. The 24/7 news cycle plows forward mercilessly on our desks, in our cars and in our pockets. Thousands and thousands… — Joseph Prince Copy Share Image
By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus our attention, we can transform our experience of our body, decrease our biological… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What people don't normally know about us is the hustle is very real, and it's sorely driven a lot by how we consider ourselves.… — Lzzy Hale Copy Share Image
For me, the term "psychotherapy" is limiting. It implies that we work with mind and emotions, but excludes the body and pays scant attention… — Jed Diamond Copy Share Image
When you approach something to photograph it, first be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence. Then don't leave… — Minor White Copy Share Image
I'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write about is true or you wouldn't pay any… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
I went to a mosque in Philadelphia with [my wife] in December 24, 1999. And we we went to this mosque in Philly, and I just had such a strong reaction to the prayer. And I was really emotionally - I felt really grounded at that time. And so to be in this prayer and the imam is doing the… — Mahershala Ali Copy Share
The Harvard Business Review recently had an article called 'The Human Moment,' about how to make real contact with a person at work: ...… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Let us thank God heartily as often as we pray that we have His Spirit in us to teach us to pray. Thanksgiving will… — Andy Murray Copy Share Image
