It takes me forever to read a book. I have such a small attention span.
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.
My attention span has never been on point - in school as well - unless I'm very, very, very into something.
I've got no attention span.
If someone can watch an entire season of a TV series in one day, doesn't that show an incredible attention span?
My laziness is really profound. I'm really interested in where it comes from - it almost feels chemical. And we've all got ADD now, short attention span and all that.
They made a three-hour 'Raw,' but two hours is about my time limit. I ain't got that kind of attention span.
I'm the perfect kind of personality for making YouTube videos. I deal in short attention span theater. I do wild things.
The dominant theory coming out of Hollywood is that peoples' attention spans are getting shorter and shorter and they need more stimulation.
Attention spans are short. Like, eight seconds short. That's why it's necessary to grab people's attention immediately.
People who lived in the 1920s and '30s and '40s were not so different from us. In some ways, they were probably better citizens than we are. They had longer attention spans, for example. Educated people tended to read a bit more than we did.
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.
Our attention spans have been reduced by the immediate gratification provided by smartphones and social media.
People have really long attention spans, and they love complicated plots. TV series are giving the audience what they want.
There is a lot of talk in publishing these days that we need to become more like the Internet: We need to make books for short attention spans with bells and whistles - books, in short, that are as much like 'Angry Birds' as possible. But I think that's a terrible idea.
I think there was a sense that the impact was being lost because the audience was so familiar with the form. You combine that with people's attention spans, which are clearly conditioned to be shorter now, and there's a need to vary the paradigm.
Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.
People's attention spans don't run too long these days.
Today's children have very short attention spans because they are being reared on dreadful television programmes which are flickering away in the corner.
The media, the polls and our legislatures fortunately have short attention spans.
