Bill Cosby Quotes

Today's children have very short attention spans because they are being reared on dreadful television programmes which are flickering away in the corner.

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

It's a bumper sticker culture. People have to get it like that, and if they don't, if it takes three seconds to make them understand, you're off their radar screen.

Our attention spans have been reduced by the immediate gratification provided by smartphones and social media.

I'm not really one for reading books. I have a very poor attention span. I'd rather listen to music, play games or watch films on my iPad.

I do love video games. But after a while, you feel like you really need to get up and do something.

If you watch kids looking at something on television, even something that's produced for them and is supposed to be funny, what you'll notice is that they don't laugh.

I used to play video games all the time, but now I don't because I don't have an attention span.

We are increasingly offered a diet in which sensation, not story, is king.

Do some research on the effects of television and your brain, and I promise you you'll have a decision to make when it comes to television, especially with what you watch.

Being a member of the Nintendo generation, I've got a really short attention span.

I've got a short attention span, so it makes sense that I like movies because, for the most part, they immerse you in lots of action.

There's no question that our children's attention and memory is changing when they are reading too long, too much, too early on digital screens.

One fear setting on filmmakers is that the audience no longer has any patience. They want things to constantly move.

We know there are good sugars and bad sugars, and we don't discuss whether food in general is good or bad for us. We need to be far more nuanced when we talk about the effects of video games.

The episodic, reactive, almost frantic pace of what is broadcast makes children feel and act frantic and shortens their attention spans and their patience for activities that take time and problems that don't yield immediate solutions.

Humans get distracted when we see and touch something.

Everyone has a really short attention span nowadays with social media, our phones. Even me - I can't go without touching my phone every five minutes.

With television, attention spans have been shortened. It's something we have to fight against: the dumbing down of the audience. To be part of an audience is a privilege. To be with the people on stage, to let them reach you. If you're doing a million other things, they won't reach you.

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.

We live in a time of short attention spans and long stories. The short attention spans are seen as inevitable, the consequence of living our lives in thrall to flickering streams of information. The long stories are the surprise, as is the persistence of the audience for them.

Everybody thought that screen time was bad for vision. Well, it happens that spending a lot of time reading on a computer is bad for your vision, but spending a lot of time playing first-person-shooter games is good for your vision.

I really like video games, and that passion has never really gone away.

I get very bored easily. I'm a child of the Internet or whatever; I want more and more of new and interesting things.

If somebody going to tell you don't play video games on the road or at home, I'm not going to listen to it.