#attention span

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. ↗

— Barney Frank

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I have the attention span of a 2-year-old. I like to jump from project-to-project. ↗

— Reba McEntire

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Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans. ↗

— Barbara Kruger

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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

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A fellow with the inventiveness of Albert Einstein but with the attention span of Daffy Duck. ↗

— Tom Shales

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I think, first of all, you know, Washington has a bad habit of a very short attention span. ↗

— Claire McCaskill

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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

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The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span. ↗

— Karl Kraus

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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

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

— Jeff Daniels

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