Ashwin Sanghi 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.

My attention span was not great.

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

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 think we have the attention span of a gnat. You know, with cell phones and Twitter.

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

My attention span is very short.

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.

I have a terrible attention span, so if something can keep my attention, I know that that's at least a great start.

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

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.

When you think about advertisements, it makes sense that they want to hold and retain our attention.

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

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

Look at this generation, with all of its electronic devices and multitasking. I will confidently predict less success than Warren, who just focused on reading.

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

Everyone has a really short attention span, and you have to bombard them with content, content, content.

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

With social networks these days, everyone needs to know everything all the time. But the problem is, people are so used to short snippets of information that no one has any attention span anymore. I don't, anyway.

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.

They made a three-hour 'Raw,' but two hours is about my time limit. I ain't got that kind of attention span.

I'm not suggesting that the entire nation can't be successful, but there's something to it when you have 150 cable channels and the Internet at your fingertips and video games and all kinds of ADD-addled devices like my iPhone and your BlackBerry and things that keep us busy.

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.