Stone Cold Steve Austin Quotes

I don't have the attention span for sports.

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!

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.

To be honest, I don't enjoy watching movies much when I'm working. They tend to fall apart on me a bit.

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.

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

I don't get easily bored. I'm not that kind of person.

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

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.

When on stage, I have good concentration. When I don't find something interesting, I can't concentrate.

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

I get more distracted by hair or a really bad wig than I do costumes any day of the week.

I can focus on what seems to be the most boring things for days at a time.

I don't think you can read poetry while you're watching television very well.

I find that I can't work and listen to radio - either I find I don't like it and it distracts me, or I do like it and I want to listen to it.

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.

Attention is the material I work with.

You've got to stay focused without being boring - because all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Skinny, but dull.

It's hard for me to sit still. Now if you'll sit me in front of a great old movie, I'll sit still, because I love that, too.

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.

When I was young, it was fun being in the locker room and shagging balls in the outfield in spring training. But I couldn't keep my attention on the games for more than 30 minutes. I would sit there with my Game Boy the whole game.

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

If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides.

Sure, one can always get the students to relax and be happy - entertained, but although being laid back and relax can also lead to creativity, mostly it means that nothing much gets done.