Attention Quote by Stewart Brand

People's attention spans are a little shorter these days. Same thing with food and movies.

— Billy Bob Thornton

The fast paced nature of our technologically-driven world seems to create issues that would appear to be foreign to ancient civilization.

— David Kim

Our attention spans have become shorter because there are more and more claims upon them - more information, more complexity; more stories, more stuff;…

— Tom Junod

For years, particularly with the advent of the Internet, people have been griping about lessening attention spans.

— Kevin Spacey

The world is using up its natural resources at an alarming rate, and this has caused a permanent shift in their value. We all…

— Jeremy Grantham

Whether science-and indeed civilization in general-can long survive depends upon psychology, that is to say, it depends upon what human beings desire.

— Bertrand Russell

Civilization in its present form hasn't got long.

— James Lovelock

The biggest problem within humanity is people get in too much of a hurry to have patience.

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

We must appraise civilization in relation to its territory and in relation to its duration. The character of the medium of communication tends to…

— Harold Innis

Western civilization was declining too fast for comfort, but too slowly to be very exciting.

— Tom Robbins

A civilization that only looks inward will stagnate. We have to keep looking outward; we have to keep finding new avenues for human endeavor…

— John L. Phillips

A short attention span makes all of your perceptions and relationships shallow and unsatisfying.

— Eckhart Tolle