Quotes About Span

Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it!

even if a universe's life span is calculable, the variety of life that is generated within it is not.

So much about being a director is getting the show ready for that first preview audience. I have a lot of experience making events that only happen once; it's opening and closing night in the same three-hour span.

I have a long attention span, and I am also a good scientist, and there are a lot of problems that remain in the organic agricultural movement that the government does not invest in solving.

Pilots are so hard because you have to introduce all these characters, you have to hook an audience, and an audience has such a smaller attention span than maybe they used to have.

I realize I am contradictory: I have an independent filmmaker's sensibility and a Hollywood director's short-attention span.

'Friday Night Lights' was kind of like my college years because I did four seasons of that. It was my first series. It was the most time I had with one character, and kind of growing and evolving with the character over that long of a span of time, it just allows you to sort of learn in a completely different way that I had never experienced.

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

The average career span for a TV writer is 11 years. The only other thing I could find that had the same career span was a police dog.

I've had a huge career of killing off characters. Low attention span. Done that, that works, done. I can't get out of bed if I've got to do the same thing over and over again.

My attention span was not great.

For contemporary fashion, I'm a huge fan of so many of the people out there. I think Azzedine Alaia holds up through three generations of very specific, beautiful design. I think Jean Paul Gaultier also is very interesting with a long span.

If I could reach from pole to pole or grasp the ocean with a span, I would be measured by the soul The mind's the standard of the Man.

The attention span of a computer is only as long as its power cord.

I never intended to become a data head. I could never have predicted it would play such an important role in my life. Yet here we are: My Institute on Gender in Media has sponsored the largest amount of research ever done on gender depictions in media, covering a 20-year-plus span.

Happy (if mortals can be) is the man,Who, not by priest but Reason, rules his span:Reason, to its possessor a sure guide,Reason, a thorn in Revelation's side.

According to USA today, the average length of an attention span of a man in America is 23 minutes.

It's not just lifespan that varies with free-radical leak, health span does

A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.

What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within the span of his little life by him who interests his heart in everything.

What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life by him who interests himself in everything.

Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe.

I can sketch up a storm, and I'm very involved in how clothes are constructed, but I have a short attention span.

It is no coincidence that ours is a time afflicted by a widespread sense of attentional crisis, at least in the West - one captured by the phrase ''homo distractus,'' a species of ever shorter attention span known for compulsively checking his devices.