Quotes About Attention

Being a member of the Nintendo generation, I've got a really short attention span.

My attention span has never been on point - in school as well - unless I'm very, very, very into something.

I know everyone says attention spans are shorter now, and if you can't get them in the first 20 seconds, you lost them. But I honestly believe if you give someone something worth slowing down to really pay attention to, they will.

I've got a short attention span, so it makes sense that I like movies because, for the most part, they immerse you in lots of action.

With social networks these days, everyone needs to know everything all the time. But the problem is, people are so used to short snippets of information that no one has any attention span anymore. I don't, anyway.

When I was young, and I would see bands playing, I would dig the rock & roll and get excited, but when they would start to take the pace down, my attention span would start going.

I don't have the attention span to practice sleight of hand.

People have a very short attention span when it comes to television, but nobody forgets the movie you do.

In a world where the body politic has the attention span at times of a goldfish, yep, you've got to have the ability to reinvent yourself in this game many times.

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 immediate emptiness of I need to make something else - I don't like to dwell on things too long.

I'm a product of the 1970s, so I have a short attention span. You know, I grew up on cartoons and half-hour shows. So the stories that I'm interested in grab my attention very quickly, and they have to keep my attention.

With television, attention spans have been shortened. It's something we have to fight against: the dumbing down of the audience. To be part of an audience is a privilege. To be with the people on stage, to let them reach you. If you're doing a million other things, they won't reach you.

My attention span, when it comes to exercise, is pretty minimal.

They made a three-hour 'Raw,' but two hours is about my time limit. I ain't got that kind of attention span.

I have a very short attention span, so sitting down with a book is very difficult for me.

I had a memory span about as long as the lines in a school play.

People who lived in the 1920s and '30s and '40s were not so different from us. In some ways, they were probably better citizens than we are. They had longer attention spans, for example. Educated people tended to read a bit more than we did.

I don't feel like the album format is sacred anymore, and things have got to change. I don't listen to music in terms of albums anymore. I've got a short attention span.

I have a very short attention span, so books have never been my thing.

I don't have the attention span for sports.

People have got no attention span these days with music - I come from the time where I bought the whole album and listened to it back to back.

I have a very short attention span.

I have a short attention span.

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