Bill Browder Quotes

I'm more of a visual person, but I think that reading's extremely important. But I'm very easily distracted. It takes certain books to really grab you in.

Human language... prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.

If people don't feel they've got your attention, you're not going to succeed.

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!

The audience only pays attention as long as you know where you are going.

I'll read anything. In fact, I'll read while I'm doing other things, which is not a good idea.

Low lights signal to our senses that the workday may be over and it's time for sleep, making it hard for an audience to pay careful attention. When we stand behind a big wooden podium, it can feel as if there's a shield between us and the audience.

It is more difficult to keep the attention of hearers than of readers.

We say that children are bad at paying attention, but we really mean that they're bad at not paying attention - they easily get distracted by anything interesting.

Still, I tune out the visual input when it is too distracting, mainly in conversations.

When I play, I become entirely absorbed in the game. It may be a form of concentration.

A rule to live by: I won't use anything I can't explain in five minutes.

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

Communication is about being effective, not always about being proper.

But communication is two-sided - vital and profound communication makes demands also on those who are to receive it... demands in the sense of concentration, of genuine effort to receive what is being communicated.

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

I can't watch a movie and watch just two minutes and turn it off, then go talk to my girlfriend.

I don't have the attention span for sports.

Listening is active. At its most basic level, it's about focus, paying attention.

We've lost the ability to immerse ourselves in things.

If your attention is on superfluous aspects that are not part of the story, then you can't be concentrating on the human realities of the piece.

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

At Ford, one of the behaviors is you listen, and you don't have side conversations during the meeting. It's just so important everybody stays focused.

There are times in the game when you have lapses. It just means you're not as locked in as when you first get in or at the end of the game.

One of the problems of modern society, or the post-Internet age, is that there are so many things bombarding us that we could care about. I think it's more important than ever to really get clear and focus on what's worth caring about and what's just noise or distraction.