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I have a short attention span. -- Tony Scott
I have no attention span. I get bored so fast. -- Carrie Underwood
The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span. -- Karl Kraus
My short attention span has allowed me a life of diversity in work and place. -- Maira Kalman
My attention span is all over the place, and I overthink things. I'm an insomniac. -- Selena Gomez
I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that. -- Octavia Butler
I think we have the attention span of a gnat. You know, with cell phones and Twitter. -- Jeff Daniels
According to USA today, the average length of an attention span of a man in America is 23 minutes. -- Robert Fripp
I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain. -- Ian Somerhalder
Plus the public's attention span is so short right now, if a skater doesn't strike while the iron is hot... well it's not like people will forget you, but they just won't care anymore. -- Brian Boitano
I don't have much of an attention span for TV - I nod off during the basketball playoffs - but when I watch 'Game of Thrones' on On Demand, I'm glued to the set. It's mystical and addictive. Tyrion Lannister, that's my man. -- Steve Harvey
On every Bright Eyes record, there's some kind of sound collage that begins it. Some of them have dialogue, some don't. I like it because it can kind of slow down the attention span a bit. It's a way to draw you in to the rest of the record. -- Conor Oberst
He has the attention span of a hummingbird. -- Christopher Moore
He has the attention span of a lightning bolt. -- Robert Redford
Being close to nature, in general, helps boost a child's attention span. -- Richard Louv
I did not succeed in life by intelligence. I succeeded because I have a long attention span. -- Charlie Munger
I guess I have a short attention span! I'm interested in new worlds, new universes, new challenges. -- Alfonso Cuaron
It's not our fault our generation has short attention spans, Dad. We watch an appalling amount of TV. -- Yeardley Smith
Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days. -- Bill Griffith
Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans. -- Barbara Kruger
Hopefully, at some point, people will at least credit the Republicans with carrying out their oversight responsibilities and with pursuing a principled course of action even in the face of everyone's short-attention spans. -- Barbara Olson
I want people to be drawn into the space of the work. And a lot of people are like me in that they have relatively short attention spans. So I shoot for the window of opportunity. -- Barbara Kruger
Americans continue to suffer from a notoriously short attention span. They get mad as hell with reasonable frequency, but quickly return to their families and sitcoms. Meanwhile, the corporate lobbies stay right where they are, outlasting all the populist hysteria. -- Eric Alterman
Children from like 8 and even up to the college age - Spider-Man appeals to a fairly broad demographic but, like I said, a mean age probably of 12 is a good mark - they process information so quickly and it's not because of attention deficit or short attention span. -- Thomas Haden Church
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. -- Alexis Ohanian
My attention span is very short. -- will.i.am
I have an attention span that's as long as it has to be. -- Donald Trump
As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short. -- Michael Morpurgo
I have the attention span of a 2-year-old. I like to jump from project-to-project. -- Reba McEntire
My attention span is very limited, and I watch just one or two movies a year. -- Ashwin Sanghi
A fellow with the inventiveness of Albert Einstein but with the attention span of Daffy Duck. -- Tom Shales
I'm not someone who has a lengthy attention span, and that applies to my exercise routine as well. -- Jai Courtney
The average attention span of the modern human being is about half as long as whatever you're trying to tell them. -- Meg Rosoff
I'm the perfect kind of personality for making YouTube videos. I deal in short attention span theater. I do wild things. -- Steve-O
I can sketch up a storm, and I'm very involved in how clothes are constructed, but I have a short attention span. -- Michael Kors
I don't have a good attention span and can't spend long in record stores or video shops or games emporiums without getting grumpy. -- Beth Ditto
I'm not really one for reading books. I have a very poor attention span. I'd rather listen to music, play games or watch films on my iPad. -- Olly Murs
My laziness is really profound. I'm really interested in where it comes from - it almost feels chemical. And we've all got ADD now, short attention span and all that. -- Hugh Grant
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. -- Barney Frank
I've always had a bad attention span. -- Charlie Brooker
I've got the attention span of a child. -- Ricky Gervais
His attention span was not long, shall we say? -- Lauren Bacall
I think maybe my attention span is too long to tweet. -- Nick Rhodes
People have an infinite attention span if you are entertaining them. -- Jerry Seinfeld
I sometimes worry about my short attention span, but not for long... -- Herb Caen
Civilization's shortening attention span is mismatched with the pace of environmental problems. -- Stewart Brand
I'd have a longer attention span if there weren't so many shiny things. -- Darynda Jones
I'm terrible at reading fiction. I don't have the attention span - it's awful. -- Charlie Brooker
A short attention span makes all of your perceptions and relationships shallow and unsatisfying. -- Eckhart Tolle
You don't pay attention man/that's why your money is the size of your attention span. -- J Dilla
I wanted to remind people that there was a time when music required an attention span. -- Mark Kozelek
I didn't care for beat reporting, covering the same thing day after day - short attention span. -- Charles Portis
I realize I am contradictory: I have an independent filmmaker's sensibility and a Hollywood director's short-attention span. -- Doug Liman
The first TV babies are now writing with a TV mind that has no attention span at all. -- Gore Vidal
I think, first of all, you know, Washington has a bad habit of a very short attention span. -- Claire McCaskill
While I was an addict, I didn't write anything. I didn't have the attention span or the will. -- David Crosby
I'm usually two projects ahead. It's hard for me because I don't have a really long attention span. -- Joe Swanberg
We don't really even know how the Internet and technology are changing us, or our brains and our attention span. -- Nancy Jo Sales
One of the great things about being an actor is it serves a short attention span, which is something I have. -- Allison Mack
If someone can watch an entire season of a TV series in one day, doesnt that show an incredible attention span? -- Kevin Spacey
If someone can watch an entire season of a TV series in one day, doesn't that show an incredible attention span? -- Kevin Spacey
I think Trump's attention span is super low. I don't think he has the expertise to actually run a foreign policy. -- David Brooks
The average attention span of the modern human being is about half as long as whatever youre trying to tell them. -- Meg Rosoff
You have the attention span of a large bug, and yet I don't feel good enough about myself to not date you. -- Dov Davidoff
Everyone's attention span these days is limited to how long it takes to flick the iPod wheel on to the next song. -- Mat McNerney
I have a terrible attention span, so if something can keep my attention, I know that that's at least a great start. -- Courteney Cox
My secret is simple. I have a very short attention span, and writing lots of things fast appeases that very attention span. -- Shiloh Walker
If you come to any of my live shows, you'll see, it's very frenetic. I have the attention span of a gnat. -- Howie Mandel
Of course, it would help if she could stay focused, but she had the attention span of a sick flea.' (Sunshine) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
People only worry about the uncanny for about a week; that's the end of their attention span. After that, suspicions turn into shtick. -- Scott Westerfeld
A lot of television tends to assume that audiences don't have the attention span or the IQ to follow a lot of stuff. -- J. Michael Straczynski
You and I and everyone else have the attention span of gnats. And that means that saying or doing anything once simply doesn't work. -- Gene Simmons
In this age of micro-blogging and two second sound bites, almost no one has the attention span, or time, to read more than a few sentences. -- Tim Frick
As a person who has a pretty short attention span I think of music like that, completely. That's why I can quite happily change genres mid-song. -- Thighpaulsandra
There were scenes that just for length purposes, and knowing that the attention span of kids is not great, don't make it much longer than about 90 minutes. -- John Badham
The way the media cycle works, the way the news works, and the way people's attention span works, is that we only learn that people exist when there is crisis. -- Edwidge Danticat
The richness of Africa, culturally, is vast. That's the challenge that we have to face, because most of the time, people in the western world, their attention span is really narrow. -- Angelique Kidjo
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. -- Kelis
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. -- Max Greenfield
I have an extraordinary attention span. I manage to juggle two or three different ideas at the same time, and that's probably, if I have a gift, that's probably the best gift that's given me. -- Paul Newman
The good thing about playing the guitar: You can take on different kinds of music. I'm always doing something different from the last thing I did because I have the shortest attention span on earth. -- Ryan Adams
If you are heartbroken and can't face the world, you need something with a fantastic plot. You won't be able to read anything boring because your attention span when you are heartbroken decreases by three-quarters. -- Isabel Gillies

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