Short Attention Span Quotes

It's always been my weakness that my concentration tends to go when I get into scrappy frames.

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

I don't really read a lot. I got a few Booker Prize books and some others and thought I'd try this but quite quickly I just stick them down. I do like some Stephen King books but with some of them I just put them down as well. But I'm like that with telly stuff as well and films or music.

I tend to get bored quickly, which means I must be boring.

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.

I can't sit at one place for long in my own house, forget about 'Bigg Boss.' I have ants in my pants.

I'm one of those guys that gets bored with things pretty fast, so I've got to keep it mixed up.

This man will never finish anything. He thinks about the end before he thinks about the beginning.

If you are explaining, you're losing. 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. Three seconds to understand, or you lose. This is our problem.

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

My attention span has never been on point - in school as well - unless I'm very, very, very into something.

Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days.

Television won't be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.

In the world today, we humans have become more self-absorbed, more tribal and tenacious in holding on to our narrow agendas; we have become consumed by the barrage of information inundating us; we are even more fickle when it comes to leaders.

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.

One of the most extraordinary things about industrial society of the present day is its idiot lack of memory. Tabloids and movies take the place of mental processes and revolts, crimes, despairs pass off in a dribble of vague words and rubber stamp phrases without leaving a scratch on the mind of the driven instalment-paying, subway-packing mass.

I don't really watch too many movies. I don't have the patience usually to watch one, one and a half or two hours in a row.

It's a really cool time for artists who want to strive for a little more depth in what they want to say to come forward. We live in a very fast world right now. We've got all this media and music which is so accessible to us, it's here one minute gone the next.

We play short songs and short sets for people who don't have a lot of spare time.

Though the male can be noble in reason and infinite in faculties, he is also easily amused by shiny toys, especially ones that do dumb things on his desk.

We have to deal in 30 second sound bites. It's not your fault. It's not our fault.

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

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

People are always jumping at what's new - who's the next person, who's the hottest thing, or whatever - so to be able to grasp the attention of everybody is difficult.

I have the attention span of a 2-year-old. I like to jump from project-to-project.