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  • 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.

  • Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans.

    Art   Expression   Doe  
  • As a reader, I have a very short attention span and a low tolerance for boredom, and I find that comes in handy with my writing. If I get bored writing something, I pity the people who will then try to read it.

  • A short attention span makes all of your perceptions and relationships shallow and unsatisfying.

    Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.174, Penguin
  • Films to the degree that they glorify mindlessness and short attention span they are bad, to the degree that they encourage empathy with people not like ourselves and encourage us to think about life, they are good.

  • I have a short attention span.

  • The ultimate pitch for an era of short attention spans begins with a single word - and doesn't go any further.

    Daniel H. Pink (2012). “To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others”, p.108, Penguin
  • 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.

    "Who speaks for me?" by Eric Alterman, www.motherjones.com. January/February 1994.
  • But I quite like that the public has a very short attention span. If I haven't been on telly for a little bit, I can sense it. People don't take as much notice of you, it's really quite palpable.

  • As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.

  • 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.

    Source: thequietus.com
  • I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that.

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

    "One On One with Michael Kors". Interview with Nina Garcia, www.marieclaire.com. August 19, 2009.
  • 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.

    Thinking   Dvds   People  
  • Americans get mad as hell with reasonable frequency but quickly return to their families and sitcoms.

    Mad   Return   Hell  
    "Who speaks for me?". www.motherjones.com. January/February 1994.
  • One of the great things about being an actor is it serves a short attention span, which is something I have.

  • Mid-grade readers don't have short attention spans, they just have low boredom tolerance.

  • 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.

    Mean   Cat   Media  
  • I've heard people say that [I have a short attention span]. I don't feel I do, because when I'm interested in something I'll stay in focus as long as it is necessary... If you get off on something I'm not very interested in, it's very easy for me to block it out. It's easy for me to block things out.

    Block   People   Long  
  • 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.

  • I wrote the column. I - you know, - the column simply said that [Clay] Felker is destroying this paper. And I heard that he was about ready to fire me, but two other people on The Voice interceded and, fortunately, he had a very short attention span, so I wasn't fired.

    Fire   Two   Voice  
    Source: thedailyhatch.org
  • Strike while the iron is hot.

    Wise   Wisdom   Iron Will  
    Geoffrey Chaucer, Barry Windeatt (2008). “Troilus and Criseyde: A New Translation”, p.193, Oxford University Press
  • I'm not a long movie person. I have a very short attention span. If you give me a 90-minute movie, that's perfect. When it gets to be two hours, that's a little bit too long for me.

    Two   Long   Giving  
    "Courteney Cox Talks Directorial Debut JUST BEFORE I GO, Gus Van Sant’s Advice, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 26, 2015.
  • It's not our fault our generation has short attention spans, Dad. We watch an appalling amount of TV.

  • My short attention span has allowed me a life of diversity in work and place.

  • I sometimes worry about my short attention span, but not for long.

    Long   Worry   Attention  
  • 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.

    Children   Mean   College  
  • Land of snap decisions, land of short attention spans, nothing is savored long enough to really understand.

    Land   Long   Decision  
    Song: Dog Eat Dog, Album: Dog Eat Dog
  • I realize I am contradictory: I have an independent filmmaker's sensibility and a Hollywood director's short-attention span.

  • 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.

    Iron   People   Hot  
    Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.
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