Attention Fatigue Quotes

Our attention spans have become shorter because there are more and more claims upon them - more information, more complexity; more stories, more stuff; more.

People's attention spans don't run too long these days.

It's brilliant having loads of girls running after you. It's also a shock when you realise just how much attention you're getting. Eventually, you start to think, 'I'd rather settle down and be normal.'

And too much informayshun can drive a man mad. Too much informayshun becomes just Noise. And it never, never stops.

I have enough attention already. More, I don't really need.

Being daily swallowed by men's eyes, They surfeited with honey and began To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof a little More than a little is by much too much. So, when he had occasion to be seen, He was but as the cuckoo is in June. Heard, not regarded.

I am aware, as everybody has to be, that there's more competition for one's attention nowadays.

Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.

People only have so much attention.

People's attentions spans are getting shorter and shorter. I don't want to cater to that necessarily but, just for myself, it feels like more than 40 minutes of music is too much.

In my experience what I'm hearing from people now is that they're just desperate to hear about something else.

As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down.

Modern man is assailed on every side and almost without interruption by noise - of the radio, of television, of headlines, of advertising and of the cinema - of which the greatest part, far from enlightening the mind, blunts and stultifies it.

There's a lot more information at hand and sometimes there's information overload and we become desensitized to it, so things start to mean less.

As crowds increase we build our forts of inattention, and the more we talk the easier it is to mean little and listen not at all.

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 simple circumstantial narrative (did such a narrative exist) of the ruin of a single town, of the misfortunes of a single family, might exhibit an interesting and instructive picture of human manners; but the tedious repetition of vague and declamatory complaints would fatigue the attention of the most patient reader.