Span Quotations

This is such a different time, and we are such a different-sized magazine. And yes, today the average reader is older, but we have a wide span of ages. You can enter 'Allure' as a 14-year-old and read about acne, and then in your 60s you can read about face lifts and injections and everything in between.

From the time I went into baseball, I have always been handicapped by my hands, which are too small. I never saw the day yet when I was able to span an ordinary baseball.

'Star Wars' is mythology. It's like Greek mythology or Shakespeare. It's the story of good versus evil over a very long span of time. The storytelling is universal and timeless.

Sea World's killer whale collection needs constant replenishing. The average life span of the animals in captivity is less than half the average for killer whales in the ocean.

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.'

My interests span biology, though sometimes I feel like an anachronism, somebody from the Victorian era when there weren't so many boundaries dividing the sciences.

Captain Falco saw the diminishment of biodiversity in our oceans over a span of nearly seven decades. He was dedicated to the protection of life and habitats in the sea. He was a legendary mariner, diver, oceanographer, and conservationist. The world is a better place because of him.

I never set out to write prayers at all. But there was a span of time when I didn't find it easy to pray, but, when I went to write one of the things I had to write, a prayer would come.

In the span of three years, the Iraqi people participated in three elections, drafted a constitution, and elected a new government. While more work remains, this is remarkable progress.

As the installments in the 'Immortals After Dark' series span simultaneous timelines, making sure the details remained accurate was a hair-raising/losing exercise.

Everyone's attention span is getting shorter. As a result, everything - films, music, art - gets watered down and dumber. Every now and again, you get something great, but not often.

'Deadline' is the story of a young man forced to discover who he is, and what's important in life, during the short span of his senior year in high school.

What we know for sure from our work and from others' is that mice have a life span of 1,000 days, dogs have 5,000 days, and we humans have 29,000 days. Recognizing that the duration is limited, and aging is inevitable, focus the attention on enhancing the quality of the days you have.

My attention span is all over the place, and I overthink things. I'm an insomniac.

Gorillas are the largest of the great apes. A mature male may be six feet tall and weigh 400 pounds or more; his enormous arms can span eight feet.

I'm the perfect kind of personality for making YouTube videos. I deal in short attention span theater. I do wild things.

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.

My laziness is really profound. I'm really interested in where it comes from - it almost feels chemical. And we've all got ADD now, short attention span and all that.

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?

Some would suggest that there has been a dramatic change in our perception of the world and ourselves within the world. Others have observed that there has been an almost complete about-face in a relatively short span of time.

When you get a typical injury, you're given a time frame; you're gradually working towards getting back. With concussions, there is not generally a time frame or a span where you're feeling better. You feel like you're getting better, and it can be one day and you're back to where you started.

If you are heartbroken and can't face the world, you need something with a fantastic plot. You won't be able to read anything boring because your attention span when you are heartbroken decreases by three-quarters.

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.

If you come to any of my live shows, you'll see, it's very frenetic. I have the attention span of a gnat.

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

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!

I was pretty anti-academic, and I wasn't much of a student. I had a really short attention span and did not get a lot out of high school academically. I think college was a little the same way.

I grew up on hip-hop. I grew up on Run-D.M.C., Whodini, LL when I was in college, so I'm more of a music fan. I probably have the most eclectic collection of music in my Grand Cherokee. Literally, in a span of a week, I'll go from 2Pac to Boyz II Men to Sister Hazel, right down to West Side Story or the Wiz. I love show tunes.

Nelson was a great hero. In the whole span of British history he still stands as one of the greatest. The legend reminds us of the great value of heroic leadership when a nation falls under fire and stress,

Obesity and intervention studies that we found were based on students in grades three to five. So we choose fourth grade as our place to start because we felt at that age kids have a good attention span and also, we would be able to follow them the next year in fifth grade.

Obviously we are happy to start the season out with a win. We were very pleased with the five-man span time of 1:02, ... That is definitely something that we need to continue working on as the season goes on. The guys understand that our team's success is based on their pack running, which was evident during the early going of the race.

I don't know what happened over the span of the 10-minute halftime. It was like I had put 11 different girls on the field.

Modern medicine is advancing to the point where the average human life span will be 100. But I read this article which said Social Security is supposed to run out by the year 2025, which means people are going to have to stay at their jobs until they're 80. So I don't want to commit to anything too soon.

Mike will be a real asset to our team. Prior to joining ERF Wireless, Mike's career as an entrepreneurial executive in the communications industry includes a number of diverse management experiences that span over 18 years. He has a proven track record in business and government relations in the U.S., Mexico and Europe. He also has experience working with congressional groups, as well as the staff of the FCC, on telecommunications legislation and regulations.

If one side does something, and the other side does something within the span of a security meeting, we can say we are into Tenet.

'Friday Night Lights' was kind of like my college years because I did four seasons of that. It was my first series. It was the most time I had with one character, and kind of growing and evolving with the character over that long of a span of time, it just allows you to sort of learn in a completely different way that I had never experienced.

I am extremely concerned that there will be donor fatigue, ... This is the fifth or sixth major disaster in a span of 18 months, and we worry and we pray that the American public will continue to come through.

I enjoy working on a series and having a long stretch of time to get to know and connect with my cast and crew. It also gives me the ability to play a character over the span of countless hours of television.

Fort Madison has a lot of balance and is a very good basketball team. We just didn't get the defensive stops we needed in the third quarter. It just seems like a four-minute span is killing us right now, just as it did at Mount Pleasant.

If anyone has the attention span of a crazed amoeba, they should enjoy all of these episodes!

I bought a guitar CD-ROM because we had a new computer, but I had no attention span for that. I spent about three hours on it desperate to be brilliant. Eventually, I got some proper lessons.

Basically, I teach people how to train their dogs. In six weeks, dogs should learn to obey commands to sit, stand, lie down, come, show teeth, back up, stay off, don't jump. Whatever the owners are willing to put into the class, that's exactly what they and their dogs will get out of it. Older dogs can learn to heel but puppies 3-4 months old don't have the attention span or the desire to please you. When they're older, they can take a little more pressure to learn.

I have a short attention span anyway. But my parents just went nuts. We had a lot of family and friends over. It was a dream come true, I guess.

I went from being perceived as one of the best young coaches in the league to this negative perception in a span of about 30 games, ... It?s really bizarre.

Mark Horowitz and I built it onto an optical bench in the lab. We spent and eight-hour span putting this optical light path together.

Marley strolled like a runaway locomotive strolls. (He) was young and wired, with the attention span of algae and the volatility of nitroglycerine.

My music is the opposite of Nintendo. It works best for people who have an active attention span and are able to create worlds inside their head. It's a stimulus for the imagination, and it requires a bit more from the listener to build a world between the cracks.

I'm hoping we can keep scoring like that. We played well except for about a 10-minute span in the third period. We're a young hockey team and we're going to learn from it.

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Over the span of three years we saw the market literally increase five times. We expect to see continued growth over the next two or three years and hybrids to hit 2% of the entire market, which is very significant.

Over the span of two games I don't think Milan was inferior to Barcelona. I'm disappointed, obviously, but I don't have any reason to be upset with my players.

Our attention span is simply shorter. Our willingness to put up with a difficult military situation and losses isn't what it used to be.

I thought we played very well for most of the Minnesota game. But we had a 25-minute span where we didn't score a goal. We had chances but we weren't burying them. We have to do better, to play for 60 minutes, this week.

Three games in the Valley in the span of a week (Insight, Fiesta and BCS) will bring at least $300 million into the local economy. That's approaching what a Super Bowl would bring, which is in the neighborhood of $400 million.

Utter happiness is a fallacy. The best most of us can hope for is that occasional span of time which occurs at irregular lengths and intervals throughout our lives wherein for an all too ephemeral period, nothing in particular sucks about living.

We get bored. Our attention span is slim.

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Well, it developed into something very different than we thought it was going to be. Initially we saw it as a disguised anthology, with J'onn, the Watchtower and the concept of Justice League being the main things the shows had in common. Our mandate was simply to tell really good stories with very small groups of characters, usually featuring one or two of the new guys. As we were saying early on, one week we'd tell the best Booster Gold story we can, the next week the best Hawk and Dove story. But as the stories developed (particularly Stan Berkowitz and Bob Goodman's 'Fearful Symmetry'), we realized we had the makings of what would become the 'Cadmus arc,' a huge story that could span two seasons, a story that would have been impossible to tell in the old 'Justice League' format.

That was brand new in 1995 when we had the idea. In July 1996 we launched the service and then just hit a fantastic curve. When I started it was hard. Every dollar that was spent had to be accounted for. We were willing to go the next five or six years to make that successful. We were very fortunate that within a span of two years we saw personal reward from that experience.

I've got the attention span of a child.

We got on the board early. Span turning on that pitch, that was nice. Situational hitting wasn't very good today. We had chances to blow the game open early. We push a couple across we're in better shape. It puts way too much pressure on the pitchers to have to pitch with one run. So we'll work on our situational hitting.

He has the attention span of a hummingbird.

We're going to get a much longer life span out of them. We're doing them with stucco and concrete foundations.

There is no precedent for an extended life span of 25 or more years, and a lot of people feel lost. A good retirement planner can change that.

Believe me I was thinking about it. I've got the concentration span of a walnut.

What's amazing is that when the first Renaissance fair started 35 years ago, and when there was a surge of them in the late 1970s, everyone involved anticipated a 10-year life span for the phenomenon, ... But with the resilience and continued popularity of the fairs, we're still on a growth curve.

I span many genres, ... I have a 'big leap,' so to speak. ... I've got Emmy nominations, I've done a couple of movies. ... I like pushing myself.

THE span of life allotted to man is very short; the World in which he lives is very wide; time extends far behind and far beyond.

The side that does the best job of recruiting and finding ways to provide quality training in a shortened time span will be the side that enjoys an increase in market share.

(The sequel) would span its own time period. You wouldn't have to see the first one to get it.

The roads just break apart through the years. It was around 18 years ago Country Road was paved. The life span for a road is 10 years, so we are past due.

With several swift acquisitions in a short span it will have to start to deliver results, which means using the India advantage on technical capability to show value.

To see new gullies and other changes in Mars surface features on a time span of a few years presents us with a more active, dynamic planet than many suspected.

Both of them have very prolific offenses. I think being prepared for that and having two very tough games over the span of three days is something to be worried about, but that is what we have depth for and this is what we use it for.

We went through a four-minute span in the first quarter where I don't think we even got a shot off.

'A Little Nightmare Music' is the first show we created. It's about all the nightmares that can happen in the span of a concert. When things go wrong - when the lights go out or a cellphone rings - that's when an audience suddenly comes alive, wondering what's going to happen next. Things going wrong often leads to something good.

A lot of things went our way in that game. There was a short span where we had two defensive touchdowns. The momentum we gained from that was a huge part of the game.

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People think all I am is Mr. Walton, ... I've done books and movies and radio. My life has covered the entire span of commercial TV.

Right now, they just have our number. There was a 16-game span when Toronto beat them as well. That's what happens in pro sports. You hate to be on the back end of that.

Far from being a curse, it might be lucky to disturb a pharaoh's tomb. These people beat the life span expectation for those days by about a year.

Entering the second period, it was tied 1-1. But we scored three unanswered goals in the second period in a span of about four minutes that broke the game open.

I used to drive the Twin Span Bridge three or four times a day, ... Now its destroyed.

This era liberated everyone, if you look at the long span of history, beginning with white southerners. Until black people struggled for equal rights, white women couldn't serve on juries. Almost 30 states restricted service. That's so foreign to us today.

This is an incremental step, because they are limiting it to short form videos and trivia -- stuff that fits with the short attention span mobile customers might have, particularly a youthful subscriber.

I only had three goals up until tonight. I had a few chances, though. That's the way hockey is. Sometimes the puck goes in for you, and then you'll have a five- or six-game span where nothing goes in.

In a matter of three series, we had a poor planned kickoff, and they get the ball at midfield. They go deep for a big play the next play. They score a touchdown. They kickoff to us, on the return we get a holding penalty. We get the ball out on a reverse and we fumble. In a matter of a five-minute span we gave up 17 points, really 21 points.

I haven't been doing business for years, and all of Ukraine knows this, ... The campaign against me is based on the notion that 10 years ago I was very powerful. In a span of five years, I created the most powerful company in post-Soviet space. The memory of that exists, of course.

Intel has a slew of products coming out within a span of the next two or three quarters that could help it close the technology gap with AMD.

In the first half we did a good job of handling it, but in a short span in the second half we just kept turning it over.

In the span of a human lifetime, and well within the collective memory, Britain went from a stable imperial power ruling an appreciable fraction of the Earth's surface to being a tumultuous patchwork which was at least superficially in decline.

Oh man, I'm on top of the world. I dreamed big as a kid, but I never dreamed that in a span of one week, I'd be competing in the Olympics and at the NFL combine.

The back-to-back hurricanes in the Gulf Coast region within a three-week time span hit the country in the most vulnerable spot -- our carbon fuel supply.

The average regulation has a life span one-fifth as long as a chimpanzee's and one-tenth as long as a human's - but four times as long as the official's who created it.

Studies have shown that daily doses of hydroxyurea decrease the number of painful crises a person may experience and lengthen their life span as well,

The auto industry is a relatively unattractive place to allocate capital. So the bottom line is, if you're running a business that can span two or three industrial sectors, there are more attractive sectors to be in.

the attention span is a bit greater when he does speak to something.

Once on-set hits, their life span is extremely short; one day to seven days,

It's tough, I anticipate he will be out for the season, ... I've never been in the situation where you lose the No. 1 and 2 quarterbacks in a span of seven plays.

It's unbelievable, we had lost four of our last five league games and we were struggling some, so anytime you can right the ship in a short span of time and get to the state tournament - I'm just really proud of our guys.