Herb Caen Quotes

You cannot give your full attention to something, and at the same time resist it.

I have a very short attention span, which is funny. I mean, you'd watch me and think that I don't, but I actually do.

Multitasking divides your attention and leads to confusion and weakened focus.

What is the difference between attention and inattention? What is attention and what is concentration? ...Attention has no centre.

He has the attention span of a hummingbird.

I've got the attention span of a child.

The mind is easily distracted; it loses its focus and becomes restless. If it is not directed positively, its power will be diffused.

I've always had a bad attention span.

When you think about it, attention-deficit order makes a lot of sense. In this country there isn't a lot worth paying attention to.

A leading difficulty with the average player is that he totally misunderstands what is meant by concentration. He may think he is concentrating hard when he is merely worrying.

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients.

I'm sure a psychologist would see something highly significant in how absent-minded I am. I mean I'd forget my head if it wasn't attached to my neck by muscles, ligaments and my esophagus.

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

My attention span is very short.

I am aware, as everybody has to be, that there's more competition for one's attention nowadays.

I am constantly distracted by my own brain when I've completed a paragraph, realized I don't know what comes next, and start opening a browser tab without even realizing it.

My attention span was not great.

I think getting people's focus, getting people's attention on anything has never been harder, because the media has done everything in its power to try and dissolve people's attention, shift it round absolutely all the time.

Distraction is our habitual state. Not the distraction of the person who withdraws from the world in order to shut himself up in the secret and ever-changing land of his fantasy, but the distraction of the person who is always outside himself, lost in the trivial, senseless, turmoil of everyday life.

Attention is like energy in that without it no work can be done, and in doing work is dissipated. We create ourselves by how we use this energy. Memories, thoughts and feelings are all shaped by how use it. And it is an energy under control, to do with as we please; hence attention is our most important tool in the task of improving the quality of experience.

Of course, it would help if she could stay focused, but she had the attention span of a sick flea.’ (Sunshine)

The development of the faculty of attention forms the real object and almost the sole interest of studies.

Attention is a bit like real estate, in that they're not making any more of it. Unlike real estate, though, it keeps going up in value.

It's hard to get people to focus on one idea.

Attention is a little-noticed and underrated mental asset.