Phil Crosby Quotes

Some people have quick retention. I'm not one of those.

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!

My brain is like a hard drive. Once you start adding new information, you start cutting off old information.

The world comes at me that way - comes at me in clumps of stuff, sometimes little vignettes and sometimes whole stories. And then the rest is erased by the internal filter that erases things for the same reason you'd forget swatting a mosquito.

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

I'd love a super human memory. My memory has never been good.

We used to think that you could pay attention to five to nine things at a time. We now know that's not true. That's a crazy overestimate. The conscious mind can attend to about three things at once. Trying to juggle any more than that, and you're going to lose some brainpower.

Memory is so crazy! It's like we've got these drawers crammed with tons of useless stuff. Meanwhile, all the really important things we just keep forgetting, one after the other.

I would love to have a photographic memory. It would come in handy with the rants I'm given on Scrubs... often on short notice!

I used to feel kind of impatient with people who couldn't do things fast or couldn't remember stuff.

One needs but to say that, in the case of an unfamiliar sequence of syllables, only about seven can be grasped in one act, but that with frequent repetition and gradually increasing familiarity with the series this capacity of consciousness may be increased.

Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.

I have an attention span that's as long as it has to be.

Our culture constantly inundates us with new information, and yet our brains capture so little of it. I can spend half a dozen hours reading a book and then have only a foggy notion of what it was about.

I've got a terrible memory; it's probably because I'm always concentrating on what I'm doing now.

My attention span is very short.

President Reagan doesn't retain very much of what comes his way on a given day.

I had a memory span about as long as the lines in a school play.

Even today, I am easily distracted by reading material and will pick up articles on virtually any factual material if I have the time.

Memory is a big one: our ability to use the memory and move things in and out efficiently - that affected what we were able to do more than anything.

We're looking at dozens, sometimes hundreds of things every day in articles, videos, and we never look at them again. Even if we do like them, even if we tweet them out to all of our followers on Twitter, we don't return to it.

My attention span was not great.

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.

I remember only what interests me.

The brain can process two million bits of information per second. It remembers everything you've ever seen, everything you've ever heard.