For me, whether it's in a book or on T.V., a recipe has to be simple. I have a short attention span, so to open a cookbook and see a recipe that goes on for three to four pages, well, I've lost interest.
Al Roker
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.
Alex Tabarrok
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.
Alexa Bliss
Being effective at social media, whether for business or personal use, means capturing people who have short attention spans. They're only a click away from a picture of a funny cat, so you have to make your thing more compelling than that cat. And that can be a high bar.
Alexis Ohanian
I guess I have a short attention span! I'm interested in new worlds, new universes, new challenges.
Alfonso Cuaron
One of the great things about being an actor is it serves a short attention span, which is something I have.
Allison Mack
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.
Amy Sherman-Palladino
To be clear, I worry as much about the impact of the Internet as anyone else. I worry about shortening attention spans, the physical cost of sedentary 'surfing' and the potential for coarsening discourse as millions of web pages compete for attention by appealing to our base instincts.
Andrew Weil
The desire to do different things was the main motivator that made me leave late night because I'd been there seven years. The combination of an entrepreneurial desire to see how far I could push my success and a short attention span. But now I've done other things. And I'm sort of ready to sit somewhere and sit in the same place for a while.
Andy Richter
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.
Angus Young
My attention span has never been on point - in school as well - unless I'm very, very, very into something.
Ann Makosinski
The average human attention span was 12 seconds in 2000 and 8 seconds in 2013. A drop of 33%. The scary part is that the attention span of a goldfish was 9 seconds, almost 13% more than us humans. That's why it's getting tougher by the day to get people to turn the page. Maybe we writers ought to try writing for goldfish!
Ashwin Sanghi
My attention span is very limited, and I watch just one or two movies a year.
With so many young playwrights, the true craft of writing for living voices is not what it used to be. They write for attention spans of 10 minutes between adverts.
Athol Fugard
People have a very short attention span when it comes to television, but nobody forgets the movie you do.
Ayushmann Khurrana
I want people to be drawn into the space of the work. And a lot of people are like me in that they have relatively short attention spans. So I shoot for the window of opportunity.
Barbara Kruger
Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans.
Hopefully, at some point, people will at least credit the Republicans with carrying out their oversight responsibilities and with pursuing a principled course of action even in the face of everyone's short-attention spans.
Barbara Olson
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.
Barney Frank
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.
Beth Ditto
My attention span, when it comes to exercise, is pretty minimal.
If you can present your case clearly and visually, anyone can understand it. No one has an attention span.
Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days.
I feel very short-attention span for like accomplishment. It's like 'oh that felt really good' and then it's kind of like an immediate emptiness of I need to make something else - I don't like to dwell on things too long.
I have a short attention span.
My attention span was not great.
Plus the public's attention span is so short right now, if a skater doesn't strike while the iron is hot... well it's not like people will forget you, but they just won't care anymore.
The dominant theory coming out of Hollywood is that peoples' attention spans are getting shorter and shorter and they need more stimulation.
College wasn't for us. We just didn't have the attention span.
I have no attention span. I get bored so fast.
I didn't care for beat reporting, covering the same thing day after day - short attention span.
I've got no attention span.
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've never wanted to do just one thing. I don't have an attention span for that. I can focus really well on one thing - what's in front of me.
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.
I think, first of all, you know, Washington has a bad habit of a very short attention span.
Today's children have very short attention spans because they are being reared on dreadful television programmes which are flickering away in the corner.
I don't have the attention span for sports.
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.
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.
It kind of renews my faith in humankind that there's long attention spans left out there that can listen to a 12-minute song.
People's attention spans don't run too long these days.
I have a very short attention span, which is funny. I mean, you'd watch me and think that I don't, but I actually do.
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.
In this fragmented world, with such short attention spans, you've got a couple of episodes to make an impression. And if you don't, you start to lose your audience in a big way.
I have an attention span that's as long as it has to be.
I realize I am contradictory: I have an independent filmmaker's sensibility and a Hollywood director's short-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.
With social networks these days, everyone needs to know everything all the time. But the problem is, people are so used to short snippets of information that no one has any attention span anymore. I don't, anyway.
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.
