Limited Focus Quotes

I never stay anywhere - parties, museums, meetings - longer than three hours.

The habit of dwelling on the past, has a narrowing as well as a debilitating influence. Behind us, there is a small, - an almost insignificant measure of time; before us, there is an eternity. It is the natural tendency of the mind to magnify the one, and to diminish the other.

The thing is I really struggle with commitments, so committing myself to six months to a year in a soap opera... I don't think it would suit my lifestyle. A few days working on a project is enough for me, and then I get bored and am ready to move on and do something else.

I spend about fifteen minutes a year on economic analysis.

The average attention span of the modern human being is about half as long as whatever you're trying to tell them.

He is short-sighted who looks only on the path he treads and the wall on which he leans.

I'm like a decathlete who does all of the events he's used to, but is being forced by certain circumstances to focus on three events, and being forced to focus on events that he wasn't that interested in, and also weren't his strongest events.

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

I just aim for basketball season to start. I don't really care about anything else in life.

I've got the attention span of a child.

I'm a Gemini, and my attention span is limited. So, I don't dwell on long-term goals.

Americans continue to suffer from a notoriously short attention span. They get mad as hell with reasonable frequency, but quickly return to their families and sitcoms. Meanwhile, the corporate lobbies stay right where they are, outlasting all the populist hysteria.

You and I and everyone else have the attention span of gnats. And that means that saying or doing anything once simply doesn't work.

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.

His (Frank Sinatra) attention span was not long, shall we say.

We are creatures of the moment; we live from one little space to another, and only one interest at a time fills these.

People haven't got the interest in long long works these days. A lack of interest which I share.

I'm not someone who has a lengthy attention span, and that applies to my exercise routine as well.

My attention span is very limited, and I watch just one or two movies a year.

You really have to get out of an actor's head to write because actors only care about their part and it revolves around their part so "This is the important part because this is the part where..." .