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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 is the persistence of the audience for them.
- Git
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 'Melody Maker,' and you had to make the effort to go to a show so that you absorbed the culture of music.
- Bells And Whistles
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 like 'Angry Birds' as possible. But I think that's a terrible idea.
- Days
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- Nov 07, 2020
People's attention spans don't run too long these days.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
Today's children have very short attention spans because they are being reared on dreadful television programmes which are flickering away in the corner.
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- Nov 07, 2020