Nick Rhodes Quotes

Twitter was a mere prototype in 2006; now, many of us have become adept at saying all we have to say in 140 characters.

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

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.

I don't tweet. I prefer face-to-face communication and sometimes Instagram.

I think Twitter is great.

Twitter is almost novelistic.

I set a goal for myself everyday when I write - 10 pages a day - and it's much harder because I'm too dumb to turn off my Twitter and everything so it's always on and it's a real distraction. It's a major distraction.

These days you're not just competing with the tedium, you're competing with the cellphone.

People worry about Twitter. Twitter is banal. It's 140-character messages. By definition, you can hardly say anything profound. On the other hand, we communicate. And, sometimes, we communicate about things that are important.

The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline... because you need to be alone to find out anything.

I have a short attention span. I couldn't stay doing the same thing for 30 years.

I have a short attention span, so when one book isn't working out, I just work on another.

It's always been my weakness that my concentration tends to go when I get into scrappy frames.

My attention span has never been on point - in school as well - unless I'm very, very, very into something.

I have a very short attention span, so sitting down with a book is very difficult for me.

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 think that Twitter is a useful reporting tool sometimes, but an utterly toxic swamp that nonetheless I engage in more than I probably should.

I feel like Twitter was tailor-made for me, because I can do short spurts all day long. I loved my blog, but doing daily, then thrice weekly entries was really time consuming. 140 characters is perfect.

Has anyone ever told you that you lack focus?

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

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

If I go and try to watch a movie by myself I'll be completely transfixed the whole time, concentrating one hundred percent. But if I'm with another person on a date or something, within two minutes I'll be like 'This is rubbish, this is rubbish. We should leave and do something else.' I don't really know why.

My concentration and focus level tends to go down sometimes when I'm in a bad mood.

I think talent has a huge amount to do with concentration, concentration rather than the athletic ability of your neurons. If you can concentrate on an esoteric piece of math, how can you think about the rest of your life? That's why people can leave their car keys in the gutter; they're in the midst of obsession and concentration.

As a child of the 1970s, I couldn't hold a narrative in my head; I was lucky if I could hold a joke in my head, because every time you turn on television or radio, it wipes the slate clean - at least in my case. After I gave up television, I found I could carry longer and longer stories or ideas in my head and put them together until I was carrying an entire short story. That's pretty much when I started writing.