Quotes About Distraction

I've got no attention span.

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

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

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

My attention span is very short.

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 a picture of a funny cat, so you have to make your thing more compelling than that cat. And that can be a high bar.

A fellow with the inventiveness of Albert Einstein but with the attention span of Daffy Duck.

Today's children have very short attention spans because they are being reared on dreadful television programmes which are flickering away in the corner.

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

Pat Moynihan could write books with one hand and legislate with the other. I can't; I have a short attention span. The slightest distraction would take me away from writing.

I came to Hollywood to write and found out I don't have the attention span.

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

I have a short attention span. And when I'm in the middle of one thing, I'm then drawn to the next thing.

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.

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.

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

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

I have a very short attention span.

I have a short attention span.

My attention span was not great.

I'm a serial scroller, and whenever I have a minute to spare, you'll find me on my phone scrolling through Instagram.

'Amusement' is appealing because we don't have to think; it spares us the fear and anxiety that might otherwise prey on our thoughts.

While you're writing, you can't concentrate nearly as well on what the speaker is saying.