You don’t pay attention man/that’s why your money is the size of your attention span. — J Dilla
Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans. — Barbara Kruger
Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation. — Constantin Stanislavski
If the people in the audience are talking, you're being ignored. If the people are gazing at you, you've got something they want to hear. — Chuck Berry
The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way. — Keanu Reeves
I did not succeed in life by intelligence. I succeeded because I have a long attention span. — Charlie Munger
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity. — Simone Weil
The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence. — Robert J. Shiller
The quality of your attention determines the quality of other people's thinking. — Nancy Kline
Learning lines is hard for me because I have the attention span of a six year old. That's why being on planes all the time is so useful - I'm forced to learn out of boredom. — Eddie Redmayne
A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention. — Herbert Simon
Focus is essential for a productive life. — Lex Fridman
We now see that young students have more and more trouble concentrating or working long hours. — Emmanuelle Charpentier
The true art of memory is the art of attention. — Samuel Johnson
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention. — Jim Rohn
Short Attention Span Quotes
One of the greatest gifts you can give to anyone is the gift of attention — Jim Rohn
Pay attention. Don't just stagger through the day. — Jim Rohn
Concentrated attention is the collection of units of power on a chosen point of intention. — James Arthur Ray
Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory. — Richard Whately
The most valuable commodity of the 21st century will be undivided attention. — Phil Cooke
Why is patience so important?" "Because it makes us pay attention. — Paulo Coelho
Where attention goes, energy flows and results show. — T. Harv Eker
The saddest part about being human is not paying attention. Presence is the gift of life. — Stephen Levine
Compassion begins with attention. — Daniel Goleman
Attention Span Image Quotes
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
When You Need Attention Quotes
All you have to do is to pay attention; lessons always arrive when you are ready, and if you can read the signs, you will learn everything you need to know in order to take the next step — Paulo Coelho
Ironically, when you surrender your need to hog the glory, the attention you used to need from other people is replaced by a quiet inner confidence that is derived from letting others have it. — Richard Carlson
Healthy parenting is especially challenging when our own childhoods weren't healthy. It requires energy, attention, and constant restraint. Realize that you need healing. Take time out to nurture yourself. — Vimala McClure
Beautiful things don't ask for attention.
When you are exposed to others' negativity, you do not need to respond. You can choose to put your attention elsewhere and let their words be a tiny drop in the infinite ocean of your peaceful silence. — Deepak Chopra
Whenever an answer, a solution, or a creative idea is needed, stop thinking for a moment by focusing attention on your inner energy field. ... When you resume thinking, it will be fresh and creative. — Eckhart Tolle
To leave in search of yourself, of your real needs, is easier when you don't have to justify yourself to anyone, when there are not too many people bestowing you their attention. — Isabelle Adjani
You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.
When you're holding people's attention, I feel you must give them high-quality ingredients. They deserve nothing but your best. And if they need information, get it, cross-check it, and try to be right. Do not waste their time; do not enjoy the ego trip of being onstage. — Henry Rollins
I was born with a need to be the center of attention, and, of course, you're the center of the world when you're acting. — Julie Christie
All we need to do is pay attention to ourselves and pay attention when somebody gives you a compliment based on something that you do naturally. Then that lets you know that that's your talent. I mean, talents come in so many different sizes, so many different colors, so many different ways. — Gabourey Sidibe
Guys make me feel secure and comfortable when I'm scared or need attention. They bring stability. And affection. And fun. And drama. You learn so much from a boyfriend. It's hard to put into words, I guess. — Hilary Duff
Any Attention Is Good Attention Quotes
My final remark to young women and men going into experimental science is that they should pay little attention to the speculative physics ideas of my generation. After all, if my generation has any really good speculative ideas, we will be carrying these ideas out ourselves. — Martin Lewis Perl
The more attention that is drawn to any of the fighters, especially in a positive way, is good for the sport. — Chris Algieri
In fact, anyone who merits attention and who promotes any cause at all is doing so on the basis of a belief that it is somehow good for humans, because of their inherent nature. — Noam Chomsky
What I always wanna tell young people now: Pay attention. This isn't gonna happen again.
I'm not reading any novels right now, though not for lack of trying. Unless they're really good, my attention in most novels tends to sputter out after a hundred pages or so - an awful admission for someone who is trying to write one, but it's true. — Matthew Healy
In the opening stage of most careers any attention is what you want, any attention is good attention, even if it's bad attention. — Robert Greene
I am always for getting a boy forward in his learning, for that is sure good. I would let him at first read any English book which happens to engage his attention; because you have done a great deal when you have brought him to have entertainment from a book. He'll get better books afterwards. — Samuel Johnson
There is a voice that doesn't use words. Listen.
I'm telling you, if you want to have good advice, never pay any attention to the camera guys because they will tell you over and over something is wrong and let's reshoot it, let's do this and let's do that. Hey, just do it. — Arnold Schwarzenegger
To have someone like Clint Eastwood come along and shoot your first draft as written is just any screenwriter's dream. And Clint is very straightforward. If it's good enough to get his attention, it's good enough to produce. — J. Michael Straczynski
Attention Getting Quotes
Whatever we focus our attention on is what will dominate our thoughts (Proverbs 23:7). If our thoughts are dominated by the things of this world then we are going to get worldly results in our lives. We need to focus on God to get godly results. — Andrew Wommack
I know more about making money than anyone else in the world. Most people’s views on money are outdated. If you want to get rich in today’s attention-based economy, then you need to learn modern methods of wealth creation. — Andrew Tate
So I played the acoustic guitar and harmonica and stomped my foot and I think I was right in assuming that Greenwich Village would be the best place to perform my own material and possibly get some attention, move on to making records and all. — Steve Forbert
You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren't paying attention to.
I originally started in natural bodybuilding because I was picked on a lot in high school and didn’t get much attention from girls. As I learned to love the process of lifting more and more I started becoming more interested in competing. — Layne Norton
The most attention I get is in a book store or video shop when I go to the foreign film section. Sometimes that can be fun, but usually those women want to talk about philosophy or something very dense. It's not like they're tearing off my shirt, you know. — Tobey Maguire
I'm terribly attention-seeking. It's very different once you get all this attention, though. Because then you want to control it. And you can't exactly. — David Walliams
A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.
We have to make some radical move to get the attention of everyone. Cheaters can't win and steroids has put us in the position that it's OK to cheat. — Lou Brock
Women do not get enough attention in a healthcare professional's office. We have been trained as healthcare professionals to look 'lightly' at women's complaints. — Steven Gundry
The best story wins. Not the best idea, or the right idea, or the most rational idea. Just whoever tells a story that catches people’s attention and gets them to nod their heads is the one who tends to be rewarded. — Morgan Housel
Call me a dreamer, but I think it would be great if getting medical attention were as easy as getting a gun. — Andy Borowitz
Empty barrels and insignificant people always make the most noise — Greek Proverbs
All that is necessary to awaken to yourself as the radiant emptiness of spirit
is to stop seeking something more or better or different,
and to turn your attention inward to the awake silence that you are. — Adyashanti
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let thing happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
Stillness and action are relative, not absolute, principles. It is important to find a balance of yin and yang, not just in qigong, but in everyday life. In movement, seek stillness and rest. In rest, be mindful and attentive. — Ken Cohen
A genuine relationship is one that is not dominated by the ego with its image-making and self-seeking. In a genuine relationship, there is an outward flow of open, alert attention toward the other person in which there is no wanting whatsoever. — Eckhart Tolle
The women who don't seek attention are usually the women you need to be giving your attention to. — Will Smith
Money and power follow attention. So whoever can get the most attention is the person who takes the most action and sooner or later will get the most results.
The brain scientists are the wave of the future in the financial world. If you seek to maximize understanding, whether you're in academia or in the investment community, you'd better pay serious attention to them. — Daniel Kahneman
I work a lot with men, and I work with wonderful men that I absolutely adore, but it's something that I'm now paying attention to - to seek out and make room for the talented women in all the technical fields and creative fields across the board. — Sara Bareilles
Anyone who is honestly seeking a job and can't find it, deserves the attention of the United States government, and the people. — John F. Kennedy
Education is every day and everywhere, the only thing you have to pay is attention.
It's not our fault our generation has short attention spans, Dad. We watch an appalling amount of TV. — Yeardley Smith
I love the necessary ambiguity of short stories - there simply isn't time to render every detail, so much of the story that orbits the literal prose must happen in the reader's imagination. Who knows, maybe the dwindling attention spans means a lucrative future for short story writers. — Matthew Healy
He has the attention span of a lightning bolt. — Robert Redford
I sometimes worry about my short attention span, but not for long. — Herb Caen
I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain. — Ian Somerhalder
This is the great luxury of not working: the moment you read a book that has nothing to do with work, you know you're really relaxed. And I have a sh*t attention span. I can't concentrate for more than five minutes. — Eddie Redmayne
A friend gave me a drug for attention deficit disorder, because he's afflicted, but I'm not. So what happened to me is I suddenly had an extra-long attention span. People would tell me a story, and it would end, and I'd get all mad. "Come on, man, there has to be more to that story." — Mitch Hedberg
Land of snap decisions, land of short attention spans, nothing is savored long enough to really understand. — Joni Mitchell
Now in the States if you look at the TV, you see the advertisements, the TV programmes, the pop videos, and the movies, they're all the same style. I think it's very condescending to the audience to assume they only have a three second attention span and so they don't leave anything on the screen for any longer. I don't understand that. — Jim Jarmusch
Strike while the iron is hot. — Geoffrey Chaucer
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
I wanted to remind people that there was a time when music required an attention span. — Mark Kozelek
The richness of Africa, culturally, is vast. That's the challenge that we have to face, because most of the time, people in the western world, their attention span is really narrow. — Angelique Kidjo
I guess I have a short attention span! I'm interested in new worlds, new universes, new challenges. — Alfonso Cuaron
According to USA today, the average length of an attention span of a man in America is 23 minutes. — Robert Fripp
Attention spans get very weak at the speed of light, and that goes along with a very weak identity. — Marshall McLuhan
While I was an addict, I didn't write anything. I didn't have the attention span or the will. — David Crosby
Our attention span is shot. We've all got Attention Deficit Disorder or ADD or OCD or one of these disorders with three letters because we don't have the time or patience to pronounce the entire disorder. That should be a disorder right there, TBD - Too Busy Disorder. — Ellen DeGeneres
A fellow with the inventiveness of Albert Einstein but with the attention span of Daffy Duck. — Tom Shales
I have a short attention span. — Tony Scott
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
Radio was, in a way, a very philosophical medium. You could make an argument on the radio, and people listened to it. Television is already harder because people's attention span becomes shorter with television. Cut to a commercial and all that. — Martha C. Nussbaum
Mid-grade readers don't have short attention spans, they just have low boredom tolerance. — Judith Viorst
I can sketch up a storm, and I'm very involved in how clothes are constructed, but I have a short attention span. — Michael Kors
Imagine what our culture would be like if Americans sold ideas, words, and books with the same creativity we use to sell designer jeans, shampoo, and rock stars. Why, we might end up with people whos attention span for the printed word is longer than the time it takes to read a T-shirt. — Jim Trelease
Americans get mad as hell with reasonable frequency but quickly return to their families and sitcoms. — Eric Alterman
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
Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days. — Bill Griffith
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. — Brian Boitano
I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that. — Octavia E. Butler
A short attention span makes all of your perceptions and relationships shallow and unsatisfying. — Eckhart Tolle
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. — Robin McKinley
Films to the degree that they glorify mindlessness and short attention span they are bad, to the degree that they encourage empathy with people not like ourselves and encourage us to think about life, they are good. — Roger Ebert
I think kids who have music in their lives are more focused. They have better attention spans. They excel more in their studies. They have a better sense of self-esteem and self-worth. — Ingrid Michaelson
I don't necessarily want to direct because it's too much work and I don't have the attention span to stay with it that long. But I think getting everyone together on something that appeals to me and developing the material is something that I like to do. — Patrick Dempsey
My short attention span has allowed me a life of diversity in work and place. — Maira Kalman
I'm not a long movie person. I have a very short attention span. If you give me a 90-minute movie, that's perfect. When it gets to be two hours, that's a little bit too long for me. — Courteney Cox
I think we have the attention span of a gnat. You know, with cell phones and Twitter. — Jeff Daniels
There is no such thing as an attention span. There is only the quality of what you are viewing. This whole idea of an attention span is, I think, a misnomer. People have an infinite attention span if you are entertaining them. — Jerry Seinfeld
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
Developers have the attention spans of slightly moronic woodland creatures. — Linus Torvalds
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