111 Span Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

The average human attention span was 12 seconds in 2000 and 8 seconds in 2013. A drop of 33%. The scary part is that the attention span of a goldfish was 9 seconds, almost 13% more than us humans. That's why it's getting tougher by the day to get people to turn the page. Maybe we writers ought to try writing for goldfish! Ashwin Sanghi

Day Attention Span People Writing Try Drop Ought Seconds Scary More Tougher Writers Part Almost Attention Than Get Getting Human Maybe Goldfish Span Turn Average Us Page Why Humans

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 Increase Kind Physical More Life Span Take Although Surgery Than Any Done Human Span Human Life Sanitation Granted Measure

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. Alex Tabarrok

Time You Attention Span People Value First Some Give Point Attention Learn Click First Thing Limited Got Leaving Blogging Get The First Thing Span Them Waste Away Thing

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

Generation Finish Line Our Relay Dream Cross Finish Always Passes Line Sprint End Labor Families American American Dream In The End Fruits Span Next Even Each Each Generation Marathon

My concentration span is truly that of a gnat. Some people have this ladder, and that's all there is - the ladder. I have the ladder, too, but there's a building around it with scaffolding, and lots of windows for me to peek into. Then suddenly I'll remember, 'Oh, there's the ladder. I should be concentrating on that.' Natascha McElhone

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

I had no political background. That's why PM Bhutto gave me the responsibility of the nuclear programme, and we acquired nuclear capability in a span of mere six years, which was a great milestone. Abdul Qadeer Khan

Great Me Political Responsibility Gave Background Had Mere Years Six Which Span Capability Acquired Milestone Why Nuclear Programme

For me, whether it's in a book or on T.V., a recipe has to be simple. I have a short attention span, so to open a cookbook and see a recipe that goes on for three to four pages, well, I've lost interest. Al Roker

When I am at a dinner table, I love to ask everybody, 'How long do you think our species might last?' I've read that the average age of a species, of any species, is about two million years. Is it possible we can have an average life span as a species? And do you picture us two million years more or a million and a half years, or 5,000? Alan Alda

Life Love You Age Dinner Long Picture Half Think Everybody Our Possible Dinner Table Table About More Life Span Half Years Read How Am Years Any Span Might Average Ask Us Species Million Million Years Last Two

Like the seasons of the year, like history, truth also repeats itself. But we seldom recognize it when great poets or true artists - the prophets and the priests of our day - present it to us in garments spick and span, following the fashion of the age, the slant of its fancy, the turn and temper of its mind. Ameen Rihani

Truth Fashion Day Great History Age Mind Year Our Recognize Temper Following Poets Prophets Seldom Priests True Like Also Repeats Itself Artists Fancy Span Turn Us Seasons Slant Garments Present

I don't go on the Internet. I never go on the Internet. I don't go on Twitter. I'm not on Facebook. I've seen friends go into dark, dark holes of sadness because of that. Frankly, I don't have the time or the attention span for it. Amy Sherman-Palladino

Time Attention Span Facebook Dark Sadness Internet Seen Twitter Frankly Never Attention Because Go Friends Holes Span

I was auditioned for 'Sultan' for the lead role in 2015. My auditions were very detailed as it was for the female lead. They took around 10-11 auditions for it in the span of 2 weeks. It was very hectic and tiring for me. Anupriya Goenka

Me Took Detailed Weeks Lead Lead Role Around Female Auditions Were Very Role Tiring Hectic 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

Me Attention Span Writing Other Books Slightest Distraction Would Could Write Take Attention Hand Pat Legislate Short Short Attention Span Span Away

Not all my work features black actors. I mean, it's funny: someone was reading back to me all the languages that have appeared in my films, whether they were shorts or features. They span Arabic, French, Mandarin, Cantonese - all kinds of languages. I think it's really cool. Barry Jenkins

Work Funny Me Black Reading Think Films Back All My Work Arabic Kinds Someone Features French Were Whether Span Mean Shorts Really Languages Cool Appeared Actor

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 War Family World Other Trench France Members Runner Memorial Life Span Had He Hours Involved Survived Family Members Span Them Average Who Whole Two World War World War I

I have a short attention span. Borns

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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

The idea of not being able to control my own fertility genuinely terrifies me. That one mistake might change your life. That everything I am, and do, could be ended by the repeal of laws our mothers fought so hard for, that women had waited for the entire span of humanity to come about. Caitlin Moran

Life Me Change Mistake Women Humanity Own Control Our Everything Able Entire About Laws My Own Could Had Idea Come Genuinely Mothers Am Repeal Waited Fertility Ended Being Span Might Your Hard Fought

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

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