Limited Attention Quotes

I have such a crowded life and crowded schedule. When people send me a link with a gadget, I'll look at it and buy it if it looks interesting, but I don't have time to check out everything I'd like to.

You can't be aware of everything. You'd fall down the stairs if you were aware of every intricate thing involved in going down stairs.

The plot details of B movies are irrational: accept that people do things that are contradictory, against their own best interests, have short term aims & limited attention span, and do incredibly stupid things while things blow up. Apart from things blowing up, this is just like the music industry.

I don't really watch too many movies. I don't have the patience usually to watch one, one and a half or two hours in a row.

I just focus on one show, when this is over then I'll start looking at what is coming up.

I have to admit, between the Seahawks games and the Blazer games and playoffs games, we're talking about close to 100 games a year, so I don't really follow other sports a lot.

I don't read all the newspapers.

My attention span is very short.

Humans make errors. We make errors of fact and errors of judgment. We have blind spots in our field of vision and gaps in our stream of attention. Sometimes we can't even answer the simplest questions.

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.

It’s very hard for any administration, and I’ve worked with seven, to focus on any more than one major thing at a time.

It is a truth of human nature that we can ponder life's mysteries for only so long before we lose interest and move on to something else.

...consciousness can keep only a few images in full clarity at one time, and even this clarity fluctuates.

The eye of the mind, like that of the body, can only extend its view to new objects, by losing sight of those which are now before it.

I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

I don't think people were that interested in what I was doing for the most of the 1990s.

When you are an outsider, no one is ready to meet you or listen to you. People have even said that there are thousands of Sonu Soods out there, and they don't have time to cater to each one of them.

My attention span is very limited, and I watch just one or two movies a year.