Robert Fripp Quotes

My attention span is very short.

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!

My attention span was not great.

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.

My concentration span is truly that of a gnat. Some people have this ladder, and that's all there is - the ladder. I have the ladder, too, but there's a building around it with scaffolding, and lots of windows for me to peek into. Then suddenly I'll remember, 'Oh, there's the ladder. I should be concentrating on that.'

To be honest, I don't enjoy watching movies much when I'm working. They tend to fall apart on me a bit.

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

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

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

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

Men don't pay attention to small things.

It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio.

I find it so easy to get distracted - I try not to do more than one thing at any one time.

I'll read anything. In fact, I'll read while I'm doing other things, which is not a good idea.

I find that I can't work and listen to radio - either I find I don't like it and it distracts me, or I do like it and I want to listen to it.

I can't sit down long enough to absorb any kind of learning.

We say that children are bad at paying attention, but we really mean that they're bad at not paying attention - they easily get distracted by anything interesting.

Still, I tune out the visual input when it is too distracting, mainly in conversations.

I don't mind being distracted.

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

I feel like my competition is everything else that's competing for people's attention, not just other print magazines, newspapers and cable. It's your kid's report card and the games you want to play, all the things that compete for people's time.

No one can remember more than three points.

If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides.

I was born with an ability to concentrate very hard on a job for a long time.

I'm astounded by people who can listen to music when they write. I can only assume that they have multi-track brains, while mine is decidedly single.