Edwin Emery Slosson Quotes

I have no attention span. I get bored so fast.

I just get bored easily. As I'm sure other people do too.

I've got no attention span.

I like to do things quickly because I'm easily bored.

I don't have a good attention span and can't spend long in record stores or video shops or games emporiums without getting grumpy.

I'm twitchy. I think I've got ADD. I find it hard to sit down. I need to be constantly challenged; otherwise, I get very... well, I guess 'bored' is the word.

Experts say you can't concentrate on more than one task at a time.

Multi-tasking arises out of distraction itself.

My mind is always racing.

My attention span is very short.

The newspapers and magazines, the theaters and the social reform movements, are more and more made for a public which looks only to be entertained and which has lost the power of sustained attention.

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

I think people who multitask pay a huge price. They think they're being extra productive, and I think when you multitask so much you don't have time to think about anything deeply, you are giving the world an advantage you shouldn't do, and practically everybody is drifting into that mistake.

When there are four or five tables going on it is hard to keep your concentration.

I can't do too much of one thing, or I get very distracted.

My attention span was not great.

I must admit that I was always scared to venture out on my own because I have an issue of getting bored of things. My attention span is very short. I like to start and give up halfway.

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.

The mind is refrigerated by interruption; the thoughts are diverted from the principle subject; the reader is weary, he suspects not why; and at last throws away the book, which he has too diligently studied.

I guess that as life is speeded up and our capacity for concentration is being nibbled away at by all the obvious things, that leads us actually to be more susceptible to boredom.

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.

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

I multitask and always have the TV on in the background. If I need to focus, I generally have to turn off the TV.

What it turns out is that we think we're multitasking, but we're not. The brain is sequential tasking: we flit from one thought to the next very, very rapidly, giving us the illusion that what we're doing is doing all these things at once.

I'm the sort of person with a very short attention span, and I lose interest in things very quickly.