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Storytelling--that's not the future. The future, I'm afraid, is flashes and impulses. It's mode up of moments and fragments, and stories won't survive.

~ Dexter Palmer

Dexter Palmer Art Attention Span Future Prediction Storytelling

An exceedingly confident student would in theory make a terrible student. Why would he take school seriously when he feels that he can outwit his teachers?

~ Criss Jami

Criss Jami Arrogance Attention Attention Span Confidence Ego Genius Gifted Humility Imagination Learning Pride School Students Teaching Theory

I get into a tearing passion about something I know very little about, and when I learn more my passion ebbs away.

~ John Buchan

John Buchan Attention Span Learning Passion

The average buyer in bookshop spends 8 seconds on the front cover and 15 seconds on the back cover before deciding whether to purchase the book or not. On average, he does not get past page 18. See? The odds are stacked against us writers!

~ Ashwin Sanghi

Ashwin Sanghi Attention Span Bookstores Reading Writers

I don't like phones. You can't be sure people are paying attention to you when you're talking to them.

~ Tawni O'dell

Tawni O'dell Attention Span Mindfulness Paying Attention Phones

You do not necessarily lose concentration, you only allow something else to take control of a greater portion of your attentiveness and attention at any given moment of time.

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Attention Span Attentiveness Concentration Mental Health Thought Thoughts Of The Mind

The resource of generational history is accorded little attention our society, which seems ever more obsessed with making “new” and “better” synonymous. From my family I became aware of the importance of passing along wisdom from one generation to the next. Yet despite the increasing proliferation of digital recording and other communication technologies, we’re passing on less knowledge today than our parents did through the oral tradition alone. We’re drowning in photographs and videos, capturing every mundane moment of our birthdays, holidays, and vacations. Yet these can be no more than pleasant distraction, only scratching the surface of our real relationships.

~ Ralph Nader

Ralph Nader Attention Span Modernity Technology Wisdom

The most dangerous thing about an academic education is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize stuff, to get lost in abstract thinking instead of simply paying attention to what’s going on in front of me.

~ David Foster Wallace

David Foster Wallace Attention Span Education Educational System Intellectual Pataphysics This Is Water Zen

The generation that had information, but no context. Butter, but no bread. Craving, but no longing.

~ Meg Wolitzer

Meg Wolitzer Attention Span Next Generation Social Media Young Adults
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