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The dominant theory coming out of Hollywood is that peoples' attention spans are getting shorter and shorter and they need more stimulation.
Brian Eno

Getting, Attention, Coming

To be clear, I worry as much about the impact of the Internet as anyone else. I worry about shortening attention spans, the physical cost of sedentary 'surfing' and the potential for coarsening discourse as millions of web pages compete for attention by appealing to our base instincts.
Andrew Weil

Else, Worry, Attention

By adopting a wonderful mutt, you'll save a life and help reduce animal homelessness while also boosting your chances of a more robust new furry friend, as mixed-breed dogs have demonstrated better health and longer life spans than their purebred cousins.
Ingrid Newkirk

Life, Health, Help

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

Work, Understand, Why

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

Work, Short, Attention

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.
John Green

Angry, Short, Become

Dreams are, by definition, cursed with short life spans.
Candice Bergen

Life, Dreams, Short

Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days.
Bill Griffith

Reality, Attention, Days

The average life spans of many bands are not that long, up to five years if they are lucky.
Mike McCready

Life, Long, Lucky

America and its allies are engaged in a war against a terrorist movement that spans all corners of the globe. It is sparked by radical ideologues that breed hatred, oppression, and violence against all of their declared enemies.
Kenny Marchant

War, America, Hatred

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

Everyone, Action, Point

I think there was a sense that the impact was being lost because the audience was so familiar with the form. You combine that with people's attention spans, which are clearly conditioned to be shorter now, and there's a need to vary the paradigm.
Jim Lampley

Lost, Sense, Attention

I don't fret much about the natural life spans of shoe companies. If stores don't do the right things, they cease to exist, and that doesn't trouble me at all.
Steve Madden

Life, Trouble, Natural

You can put in all the difficulties, jumps, runs, and any other devilish complexities you like, except octave spans and similar features which do not suit the formation of hands.
Johann Nepomuk Hummel

Put, Hands, Except

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