Quotes About Attention

He could not stand. It was not That he could not thrive, he was born With everything but the will – That can be deformed, just like a limb. Death was more interesting to him. Life could not get his attention.

Journalism has become a sort of competitive screeching: What is trivial but noisy and immediate takes precedence over important matters that develop over time.

But it was nothing, a paper seal slipped in assembly, easily put right. You could stop the oil if you took the trouble. That was what British bikes liked, a bit of trouble. They thrived on attention, like certain people, and repaid you for it. Not a bad relationship to have.

It was okay for people to write negative things about me just as long as they spelled my name right.

A self-absorbed president, catering to the "worst caprices" of his supporters, could easily distract their attention from plodding matters of governance, and whip their enthusiasms into a frenzy, especially if he divided his supporters and his critics into "hostile camps.

In Spain, there's a lot more publicity.

Our attention spans have been reduced by the immediate gratification provided by smartphones and social media.

I'm the sort of person with a very short attention span, and I lose interest in things very quickly.

My attention span is all over the place, and I overthink things. I'm an insomniac.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.

I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that.

Gaming is our cultural bogeyman - we blame it for everything from child obesity to violence to short attention spans. But any explanation that fits every situation ultimately explains nothing.

Attention spans are short. Like, eight seconds short. That's why it's necessary to grab people's attention immediately.

I've got no attention span.

Everyone's attention span is getting shorter. As a result, everything - films, music, art - gets watered down and dumber. Every now and again, you get something great, but not often.

People's attention spans don't run too long these days.

I'm a Gemini, and my attention span is limited. So, I don't dwell on long-term goals.

For me, whether it's in a book or on T.V., a recipe has to be simple. I have a short attention span, so to open a cookbook and see a recipe that goes on for three to four pages, well, I've lost interest.

The attention span of children may be one of the main reasons why an immersion in on-screen reading is so engaging, and it may also be why digital reading may ultimately prove antithetical to the long-in-development, reflective nature of the expert reading brain as we know it.

Some people like the same thing forever, but I don't know. We kind of, like, listen to loads of different stuff, and our attention spans aren't good enough. So there was a bit of frustration when you're, like, having to play the same thing all the time because we play all, like, loads of different instruments.

I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.

I didn't care for beat reporting, covering the same thing day after day - short attention span.

Everyone has a really short attention span, and you have to bombard them with content, content, content.

The average attention span of the modern human being is about half as long as whatever you're trying to tell them.