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Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Time, Great, Live

Although we take it for granted, sanitation is a physical measure that has probably done more to increase human life span than any kind of drug or surgery.
Deepak Chopra

Life, Human, Done

Fear is a very explosive emotion, but it has a short life span. It's the sprint. The marathon is hope.
Mike Huckabee

Life, Hope, Fear

If I could wear any label forever it would be Burberry. It covers a huge span of stuff. You can't go wrong with a classic trench and a pair of jeans.
Emma Watson

Wrong, Stuff, Forever

We do as much harm holding onto programs and people past their natural life span as we do when we employ massive organizational air strikes. However, destroying comes at the end of life's cycle, not as a first response.
Margaret J. Wheatley

Life, End, Past

In one century, we've added 28 years to our average life span - a change so rapid that our brains couldn't possibly have evolved to accommodate it.
Martha Beck

Life, Change, Brains

I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.
Ian Somerhalder

Brain, Poor, Attention

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

Attention, Jump

I feel like my peers now are artists like Madonna and the Stones, Michael Jackson and Prince. These are people who were able to take their careers beyond the normal here-today-gone-tomorrow life span.
LL Cool J

Life, Able, Normal

I have no attention span. I get bored so fast.
Carrie Underwood

Bored, Attention, Fast

My attention span is very short.
will.i.am

Short, Attention

The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters.
Mary Astell

Life, Short, Away

Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe.
John Polkinghorne

Time, History, Human

Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.
Logan P. Smith

Generation, Writers, Readers

Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a night when choice was any more than the sum of all the choices gone before?
Joan Didion

Life, Time, Night

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

Attention, While, Culture

I don't have a good attention span and can't spend long in record stores or video shops or games emporiums without getting grumpy.
Beth Ditto

Good, Long, Getting

In the end, the American dream is not a sprint, or even a marathon, but a relay. Our families don't always cross the finish line in the span of one generation. But each generation passes on to the next the fruits of their labor.
Julian Castro

End, Dream, American

According to USA today, the average length of an attention span of a man in America is 23 minutes.
Robert Fripp

Today, America, Attention

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

Writing, Short, Away

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

Remember, Young, Short

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

Good, Short, Attention

People do not realize this, but my drug addiction was actually a short span of time. It was only for two years.
Corey Feldman

Time, Two, Short

But I quite like that the public has a very short attention span. If I haven't been on telly for a little bit, I can sense it. People don't take as much notice of you, it's really quite palpable.
Sophie Ellis Bextor

Short, Sense, Attention

Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries.
Brian Ferneyhough

Often, Argue, Dialogue

In the span of my own lifetime I observed such wondrous progress in plant evolution that I look forward optimistically to a healthy, happy world as soon as its children are taught the principles of simple and rational living.
Luther Burbank

Happy, Forward, Simple

As a freelance writer, I'd be asked to become an expert for various magazines on any subject, whether food or wine or history or the life span of veterinarians. I was completely unschooled in any of these things.
John Hodgman

Life, History, Food

I had two family members involved in World War I: two great-uncles. One of them is on a memorial in France. And the other was a trench runner who survived the war. The average life span of a trench runner was 36 hours, but he survived the whole war.
Ben Barnes

Life, Family, War

History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy.
Robert Smithson

Time, History, May

The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.
A. J. Liebling

Good, Food, Experience

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