Top 60 Attention Span Quotes

I have kind of a short attention span, so if it doesn’t come really quick then I set it down, and hopefully come back to it another time.

As a reader, I have a very short attention span and a low tolerance for boredom, and I find that comes in handy with my writing. If I get bored writing something, I pity the people who will then try to read it.

In my head, I’m a purist that doesn’t require anything but a group of good friends and a bottle of wine. In reality, I’m co-dependent on my iPhone and fully conscious of the fact that my attention span is corroding.

If you come to any of my live shows, you’ll see, it’s very frenetic. I have the attention span of a gnat.

I’m not really one for reading books. I have a very poor attention span. I’d rather listen to music, play games or watch films on my iPad.

When I was young, and I would see bands playing, I would dig the rock & roll and get excited, but when they would start to take the pace down, my attention span would start going.

I don’t have a background in music… and I have a short attention span. If you put me in the studio every day, I’m gonna get lost.

I think we have the attention span of a gnat. You know, with cell phones and Twitter.

I have a very short attention span, so sitting down with a book is very difficult for me.

Our sport is surrounded by nine seconds, and that’s how long the attention span is for fans: if you can grasp those nine seconds, you’re the man of the hour.

My attention span, when it comes to exercise, is pretty minimal.

Most of the jobs I had when I was younger, I got fired from. I never had the attention span.

I’m not a great reader, believe it or not. It’s not the vocabulary – my father made me read the dictionary when I was little – but my attention span is poor. Takes me months to read one book.

Everyone has a really short attention span nowadays with social media, our phones. Even me – I can’t go without touching my phone every five minutes.

Being a member of the Nintendo generation, I’ve got a really short attention span.

My attention span is very short.

There’s a palpable frustration with the assumption that everyone who’s under the age of 25 has got the attention span of a gnat and isn’t interested in events and ideas.

People have a very short attention span when it comes to television, but nobody forgets the movie you do.

They made a three-hour ‘Raw,’ but two hours is about my time limit. I ain’t got that kind of attention span.

If you are heartbroken and can’t face the world, you need something with a fantastic plot. You won’t be able to read anything boring because your attention span when you are heartbroken decreases by three-quarters.

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.

I get bored quickly. Always have. Short attention span.

I have no attention span. I get bored so fast.

I have a very short attention span.

Everyone has a really short attention span, and you have to bombard them with content, content, content.

I’m the perfect kind of personality for making YouTube videos. I deal in short attention span theater. I do wild things.

I don’t have the attention span to practice sleight of hand.

I have a short attention span, so when one book isn’t working out, I just work on another.

If you can present your case clearly and visually, anyone can understand it. No one has an attention span.

I’ve got a short attention span, so it makes sense that I like movies because, for the most part, they immerse you in lots of action.

On every Bright Eyes record, there’s some kind of sound collage that begins it. Some of them have dialogue, some don’t. I like it because it can kind of slow down the attention span a bit. It’s a way to draw you in to the rest of the record.

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

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

I would never have been a good scientist – my attention span was too short for that.

The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.

It takes me forever to read a book. I have such a small attention 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.

One of the great things about being an actor is it serves a short attention span, which is something I have.

I have a short attention span.

The first thing you learn when you’re blogging is that people are one click away from leaving you. So you’ve got to get to the point, you can’t waste people’s time, you’ve got to give them some value for their limited attention span.

I try to read, but my attention span is so bad, and ever since Netflix was invented, that’s all I do in my spare time, which is really bad, but it’s like a chore to read for me.

I have a short attention span, so I go through short nerd-out phases.

I was pretty anti-academic, and I wasn’t much of a student. I had a really short attention span and did not get a lot out of high school academically. I think college was a little the same way.

I have a short attention span.

Pat Moynihan could write books with one hand and legislate with the other. I can’t; I have a short attention span. The slightest distraction would take me away from writing.

I have an attention span that’s as long as it has to be.

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

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.

I came to Hollywood to write and found out I don’t have the attention span.

Theatre is a more difficult visual medium than films. You need to hold the attention span of the audience without goofing up and be able to express yourself as vividly as possible.

My attention span was quite short and I just wanted to use a lot of beautiful words. When I read a poem like ‘Howl’, or ‘Lady Lazarus’ by Sylvia Plath, I felt myself being moved – I wanted to do that for other people.

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 have an extraordinary attention span. I manage to juggle two or three different ideas at the same time, and that’s probably – if I have a gift, that’s probably the best gift that’s given me.

I don’t have a good attention span and can’t spend long in record stores or video shops or games emporiums without getting grumpy.

A fellow with the inventiveness of Albert Einstein but with the attention span of Daffy Duck.

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

I bought a guitar CD-ROM because we had a new computer, but I had no attention span for that. I spent about three hours on it desperate to be brilliant. Eventually, I got some proper lessons.

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

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

Everyone’s attention span is getting shorter. As a result, everything – films, music, art – gets watered down and dumber. Every now and again, you get something great, but not often.