I can sketch up a storm, and I'm very involved in how clothes are constructed, but I have a short attention span.
Life hinges on many factors we cannot control. Two of the most important factors, we can control. We can manage our relationships-and what is life but a series of relationships?-and we can correct our mistakes, here on earth within our life span.
It should soon be possible dramatically to increase the intelligence and life span of a few individuals. They and their offspring could become a master race. Evolution pays no regard to social justice. It was not fair on the Neanderthals they were replaced by modern humans.
moments bleed together, no span to time
Anything made out of destructible matter Infinite time would have devoured before. But if the atoms that make and replenish the world Have endured through the immense span of the past Their natures are immortal-that is clear. Never can things revert to nothingness!
I have no attention span. I get bored so fast.
As a person who has a pretty short attention span I think of music like that, completely. That's why I can quite happily change genres mid-song.
Now the work of art also represents a state of final equilibrium, of accomplished order and maximum relative entropy, and there are those who resent it. But art is not meant to stop the stream of life. Within a narrow span of duration and space the work of art concentrates a view of the human condition; and sometimes it marks the steps of progression, just as a man climbing the dark stairs of a medieval tower assures himself by the changing sights glimpsed through its narrow windows that he is getting somewhere after all.
There are babies a span long in hell.
I'd have a longer attention span if there weren't so many shiny things.
Autumn is the eternal corrective. It is ripeness and color and a time of maturity; but it is also breadth, and depth, and distance. What man can stand with autumn on a hilltop and fail to see the span of his world and the meaning of the rolling hills that reach to the far horizon?
You don’t pay attention manthat’s why your money is the size of your attention span.
He has the attention span of a lightning bolt.
I guess I have a short attention span! I'm interested in new worlds, new universes, new challenges.
When [the] life span of America women is approaching eighty years having kids is not going to take it up.
For the span of my memory, this has been a city of opposing wills.
Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it!
More and more research is suggesting that, far from being simply encoded in the genes, much of personality is a flexible and dynamic thing that changes over the life span and is shaped by experience.
. . . Drifting downstream in a row boat doesn't count against your life span.
My attention span is very short.