Attention Spans Quotes
Why focus keeps getting harder to hold
Several quotes here connect shorter attention spans to the sheer volume of information competing for notice, long before smartphones made the problem worse. One speaker recalls a slower media era for contrast, a nostalgia shared by our Being page on simpler states of mind.
Our attention spans have become shorter because there are more and more claims upon them - more information, more complexity; more stories, more stuff; more.
We live in a time of short attention spans and long stories. The short attention spans are seen as inevitable, the consequence of living our lives in thrall to flickering streams of information. The long stories are the surprise, as...
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In '77 there was no Internet, there was no Twitter or Facebook, and I think that, without being some old git who hates anything new, people's attention spans are too short. Back then you had 'Top Of The Pops' and...
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...
Angry Quotes
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.
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 dominant theory coming out of Hollywood is that peoples' attention spans are getting shorter and shorter and they need more stimulation.
Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days.
Attention Quotes
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.
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Publishing gets specific attention too, with talk of adding bells and whistles to hold a reader's interest. For that exact phrase, see Bells And Whistles, or browse Attention more broadly.
