David Hepworth Quotes

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

The average human attention span was 12 seconds in 2000 and 8 seconds in 2013. A drop of 33%. The scary part is that the attention span of a goldfish was 9 seconds, almost 13% more than us humans. That's why it's getting tougher by the day to get people to turn the page. Maybe we writers ought to try writing for goldfish!

It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio.

I have enough attention already. More, I don't really need.

The only factor becoming scarce in a world of abundance is human attention.

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

My attention span was not great.

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

Has anyone ever told you that you lack focus?

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.

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.

I can't sit down long enough to absorb any kind of learning.

My concentration span is truly that of a gnat. Some people have this ladder, and that's all there is - the ladder. I have the ladder, too, but there's a building around it with scaffolding, and lots of windows for me to peek into. Then suddenly I'll remember, 'Oh, there's the ladder. I should be concentrating on that.'

Brain studies of mental workouts in which you sustain a single, chosen focus show that the more you detach from what's distracting you and refocus on what you should be paying attention to, the stronger this brain circuitry becomes.

A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.

People's attention spans don't run too long these days.

I feel like my competition is everything else that's competing for people's attention, not just other print magazines, newspapers and cable. It's your kid's report card and the games you want to play, all the things that compete for people's time.

I often think of it this way: The 21st century is going to be a war on the attention of humanity. Where civilization focuses its attention, I mean, that's what defines what the civilization cares about.

People only have so much attention.

No more than a surgeon can operate while tweeting can you reach your potential with one ear in, one ear out. You actually have to reacquaint yourself with concentration. We all do.

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

While you're writing, you can't concentrate nearly as well on what the speaker is saying.

Multi-tasking arises out of distraction itself.

According to USA today, the average length of an attention span of a man in America is 23 minutes.

It's hard to watch something go on and be talking at the same time.