Roy Thomson Quotes

I don't like sticking to just one thing; it bores me.

I feel a bit like a magpie attracted to shiny things.

I've always really enjoyed writing different things because I get bored very easily.

It's very tough for me to focus. I'm like: 'Look, something shiny! No, focus. Oh, there goes a butterfly!'

Like most kids growing up, I had a very wide interest. I was interested in everything. I tried to take advantage of everything, from the sciences to music to writing to literature.

You name it, I'm interested in a lot of things.

I don't get easily bored. I'm not that kind of person.

To be honest, what I struggled with in my degree is what's so helpful when it comes to social media in that I lack focus. I'll start reading about evolutionary biology and end up on quantum physics. While that makes writing your dissertation very difficult, for a page like IFLS, that's amazing because I get a wide range of everything.

I tend to watch things that aren't really the genre of my own work.

I'm a 'bright, shiny objects' guy. I'm always looking for what's next.

When I do one thing for a long period of time, my attention is usually then drawn in the opposite direction.

People don't like the same thing. You have to keep their attention.

When I was little, I was like a magpie, which is a bird that's attracted to shiny things. They'll build their nests with Christmas tree tinsel.

I'm one of those guys that gets bored with things pretty fast, so I've got to keep it mixed up.

I'm a regular person. I'm a regular guy. As a kid, I played games. As a kid, I liked poetry. As a kid, I liked drawing. And I never felt the need to stop doing anything. I never lost interest in them.

Man loves the marvelous. It has an irresistible charm for him. He is always ready to leave that with which he is familiar to pursue vain inventions. He lends himself to his own deception.

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 used to review games on 'The Totally Rad Show,' and the best thing about that was I would finish games. Now, it's become challenging for me to actually sit through an entire game. I tend to get excited about the next shiny thing.

Sometimes I have lapses of attention, and I can lose some points very quickly - that's been a big thing for him.

There's more in this world than just baseball.

If you are seeing something for the first time, one of your first reactions should be fascination.

I constantly need something new and challenging.

I'm a very restless person, and new experiences excite me more than anything else.

My biggest hurdle usually has to do with concentration. I have a tendency to kind of start working on something, and then, all of a sudden, I'll totally divert and do something totally different.

Novelty serves us for a kind of refreshment, and takes off from that satiety we are apt to complain of in our usual and ordinary entertainments.