When you get a typical injury, you’re given a time frame; you’re gradually working towards getting back. With concussions, there is not generally a time frame or a span where you’re feeling better. You feel like you’re getting better, and it can be one day and you’re back to where you started.
I don’t have the attention span to practice sleight of hand.
The media, the polls and our legislatures fortunately have short attention spans.
The argument we always used to use was that keeping records in the catalog was good for people that were coming new to the music, but I think that was talking over a ten year or fifteen year time span.
The Earth has been lawned with life for something over 3.5 billion years. That’s a span of time great enough to encompass some honest-to-goodness catastrophe. For example, 700 million years ago, Earth underwent a planet-wide deep freeze, with ice covering the oceans from the poles to the equator.
When you try on something, you have to ask yourself, ‘How many ways could I wear this? Could I wear it to work? To dinner or drinks? Will it span the seasons’ If you have to think too hard about those questions, then skip it.
I can sketch up a storm, and I’m very involved in how clothes are constructed, but I have a short attention span.
I think that every boxer should understand he’s on the pedestal for a short span. It’s best that you use boxing and don’t let boxing use you. Use boxing to sell, because people are selling you through your boxing career, so you have to learn to sell yourself, and you’ll never starve.
As I had visualized, ‘Heroine’ is shaping up to be a very contemporary film with a different premise and strata. This film, like most of my other films, is a blend of facts and fiction. The film has a larger span, more characters, and costumes… a journey that revolves around an actress’s life and the showbiz.
By adopting a wonderful mutt, you’ll save a life and help reduce animal homelessness while also boosting your chances of a more robust new furry friend, as mixed-breed dogs have demonstrated better health and longer life spans than their purebred cousins.
My big brother Ryan was funny and unfailingly kind. He was one of the most talented musicians you might encounte, and had a prodigious ability to pick up any instrument and play it by ear within the span of a single day.
It takes me forever to read a book. I have such a small attention span.
False news, when combined with social media, can wreak havoc thanks to its potential of reaching millions in a short span. The effects can be quite disturbing.
Attention spans are so limited and ticket prices so high. We’re anyway in a business of manipulating emotions. But each film needs to be positioned truthfully so that people don’t feel cheated.
Trust me: all of us walk around and look at each other, and without saying it, we all know we’re thinking, ‘Really dude? Were still here!’ and pinch ourselves. Typically, careers have short life span, 10 years if you’re lucky, so what we’ve done is amazing.
Time has changed and artists release more songs in a short span of time and that’s where the auto-tune steps-in. One doesn’t have to record a song multiple times to make it better.
The brain is plastic its whole life span.
In a world where the body politic has the attention span at times of a goldfish, yep, you’ve got to have the ability to reinvent yourself in this game many times.
I’m a product of the 1970s, so I have a short attention span. You know, I grew up on cartoons and half-hour shows. So the stories that I’m interested in grab my attention very quickly, and they have to keep my attention.
I never intended to become a data head. I could never have predicted it would play such an important role in my life. Yet here we are: My Institute on Gender in Media has sponsored the largest amount of research ever done on gender depictions in media, covering a 20-year-plus span.
The stupendous time spans of the evolutionary past are now part of common culture (though maybe not in the United States Bible Belt, nor in parts of the Islamic world). Most people are at ease with the idea that our present biosphere is the outcome of four billion years of Darwinian evolution.
The average attention span of the modern human being is about half as long as whatever you’re trying to tell them.
The key to the future in an aging society is not found in increasing just our life span; we need to increase our health span at the same time.
I have a short attention span, so I go through short nerd-out phases.
I was auditioned for ‘Sultan’ for the lead role in 2015. My auditions were very detailed as it was for the female lead. They took around 10-11 auditions for it in the span of 2 weeks. It was very hectic and tiring for me.
Attention spans are short. Like, eight seconds short. That’s why it’s necessary to grab people’s attention immediately.
My attention span was not great.
I don’t go on the Internet. I never go on the Internet. I don’t go on Twitter. I’m not on Facebook. I’ve seen friends go into dark, dark holes of sadness because of that. Frankly, I don’t have the time or the attention span for it.
I have a very short attention span.
I’ve got a very short attention span, and this has been part of the reason I’m so kind of dumbfounded at the fact that I’ve still stayed with music. Nothing has ever stuck for me, and music’s the only thing that’s managed to stick out for a long period of time.
It’s possible that we could change a human gene and double our life span. I don’t know if that’s true, but we can’t rule that out.
I am very proud to come from a diverse family. My mother is an immigrant from Japan and my father is from a steel town in Western Pennsylvania. My family spans across the political spectrum.
My interests span biology, though sometimes I feel like an anachronism, somebody from the Victorian era when there weren’t so many boundaries dividing the sciences.
I used to play video games all the time, but now I don’t because I don’t have an attention span.
I think people are really desperate for conversations. I’m really fascinated by the idea that at the same time, the internet is sort of expunging our attention spans.
I don’t feel like the album format is sacred anymore, and things have got to change. I don’t listen to music in terms of albums anymore. I’ve got a short attention span.
When I want an opinion, I’ll get it from my peers – from men of vision, like our great railroad builders… Stanford, Huntington, Dinsmore… fellows with imaginations broad enough to span the continent.
I have a short attention span.
Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.
I don’t have much of an attention span for TV – I nod off during the basketball playoffs – but when I watch ‘Game of Thrones’ on On Demand, I’m glued to the set. It’s mystical and addictive. Tyrion Lannister, that’s my man.
I would like for people to hear my music and hear/realize that people and experiences are deeper than what’s at face value. Hopefully, with the span of my career, I can try to convey that in more ways than one.
I tend to focus on what I’m doing at the moment, and that takes up the entire span of my focus.
I never set out to write prayers at all. But there was a span of time when I didn’t find it easy to pray, but, when I went to write one of the things I had to write, a prayer would come.
If the world’s a veil of tears, Smile till rainbows span it.
I realize I am contradictory: I have an independent filmmaker’s sensibility and a Hollywood director’s short-attention span.
I like Twitter because I’m a creature of the short-attention span theater. I can get a lot of sports opinions and other things and Twitter tells me what time it is, but not how to make the watch.
I get a little cranky with the whole business about kids not having attention spans. This reminds me of the usual business of thinking that the next generation is hopeless. Every generation has said that about every younger generation.
I would like to know that I was still going to be employed as a woman well into my 60s. In acting terms, a career that spans a lifetime is a very hard thing to achieve, particularly as a woman.
If football is your passion in life and you would rather play football for 20 years and have a shortened life span, that’s your choice.
I have a formal education, but there’s a whole lot you don’t learn in school. And you only have so much time to figure it out. No matter how cerebral, celestial, how ethnic, there’s a span of time here.
I always say the Boston Celtics of the 1960s were the only true dynasty, because they won nine titles in a 10-year span.
Although we had been led to believe our mission was suicidal, Russia’s intrigue was irresistible. Almost twice the size of Australia, it spans 11 time zones from the Baltic to the Pacific.
As a freelance writer, I’d be asked to become an expert for various magazines on any subject, whether food or wine or history or the life span of veterinarians. I was completely unschooled in any of these things.
I have no attention span. I get bored so fast.
As the owner of the Arison Group, a philanthropic and business enterprise that spans across 40 countries in 5 continents, my ongoing challenge is to bridge the gap between what I envision and its understanding and practical implementation. The Arison Group operates to realize the overall vision of Doing Good.
