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People's attention spans don't run too long these days. -- Daron Malakian
The media, the polls and our legislatures fortunately have short attention spans. -- John Gutfreund
For years, particularly with the advent of the Internet, people have been griping about lessening attention spans. -- Kevin Spacey
Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days. -- Bill Griffith
People have really long attention spans, and they love complicated plots. TV series are giving the audience what they want. -- Kevin Spacey
Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans. -- Barbara Kruger
The dominant theory coming out of Hollywood is that peoples' attention spans are getting shorter and shorter and they need more stimulation. -- Brian Eno
Today's children have very short attention spans because they are being reared on dreadful television programmes which are flickering away in the corner. -- Claire Tomalin
With so many young playwrights, the true craft of writing for living voices is not what it used to be. They write for attention spans of 10 minutes between adverts. -- Athol Fugard
In this fragmented world, with such short attention spans, you've got a couple of episodes to make an impression. And if you don't, you start to lose your audience in a big way. -- David Walton
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
I'm very conscious of people having pretty short attention spans: I know, I'm guilty of it. I'm 17 now: what happens by the time I'm 21, am I a burn-out or something? Will they still listen to my record? -- Lorde
The problems with kids having short attention spans is driven by entertainment, reset buttons on games, games having to do with getting somewhere and heads blowing up. Everything is 'cut to the chase, cut to the chase.' -- Bill Cosby
I get a little cranky with the whole business about kids not having attention spans. This reminds me of the usual business of thinking that the next generation is hopeless. Every generation has said that about every younger generation. -- Robin McKinley
I think there was a sense that the impact was being lost because the audience was so familiar with the form. You combine that with people's attention spans, which are clearly conditioned to be shorter now, and there's a need to vary the paradigm. -- Jim Lampley
To be clear, I worry as much about the impact of the Internet as anyone else. I worry about shortening attention spans, the physical cost of sedentary 'surfing' and the potential for coarsening discourse as millions of web pages compete for attention by appealing to our base instincts. -- Andrew Weil
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
Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket. -- Vikas Swarup
There is a lot of talk in publishing these days that we need to become more like the Internet: We need to make books for short attention spans with bells and whistles - books, in short, that are as much like 'Angry Birds' as possible. But I think that's a terrible idea. -- John Green
I don't think people really do listen. We plug into music, and we have short attention spans. We tend to download individual tracks from iTunes rather than a whole album. We buy music DVDs and watch them once, and then they disappear into a drawer, or we loan them to a friend, and we never watch it again. -- Ian Anderson
In '77 there was no Internet, there was no Twitter or Facebook, and I think that, without being some old git who hates anything new, people's attention spans are too short. Back then you had 'Top Of The Pops' and 'Melody Maker,' and you had to make the effort to go to a show so that you absorbed the culture of music. -- Steve Jones
Players' attention spans get less and less as they progress. -- Mike Krzyzewski
Developers have the attention spans of slightly moronic woodland creatures. -- Linus Torvalds
Cats would rule the world if they had longer attention spans. -- Arthur D. Hlavaty
Mid-grade readers don't have short attention spans, they just have low boredom tolerance. -- Judith Viorst
People's attention spans are a little shorter these days. Same thing with food and movies. -- Billy Bob Thornton
Land of snap decisions, land of short attention spans, nothing is savored long enough to really understand. -- Joni Mitchell
It's not our fault our generation has short attention spans, Dad. We watch an appalling amount of TV. -- Yeardley Smith
Attention spans get very weak at the speed of light, and that goes along with a very week identity. -- Marshall McLuhan
The ultimate pitch for an era of short attention spans begins with a single word - and doesn't go any further. -- Daniel H. Pink
There's time limits on how long people's attention spans will work. There's six weeks in each territory that you're really famous, then you, thank god, disappear again. -- Sia Furler
I guess in this culture of ever-shortening attention spans, it's good if a song can lift us out of the madness, even if only for a few minutes. -- Peter Bradley Adams
Now, for my younger viewers out there, a book is something we used to have before the internet. It's sort of a blog for people with attention spans. -- Stephen Colbert
I think kids who have music in their lives are more focused. They have better attention spans. They excel more in their studies. They have a better sense of self-esteem and self-worth. -- Ingrid Michaelson
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
It's a double-headed coin, because technology is a convenience but it's stifled our attention spans. At one time, albums had songs that were like ten minutes long, with different variations and chord progressions and changes. -- CeeLo Green

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