You spend so much time in the world of virtual that the actual - which nothing is more actual than stand-up - it's a painful experience for the audience, and the comedian a lot of time - we miss that.
Jerry SeinfeldRead
There is no such thing as an attention span. There is only the quality of what you are viewing. This whole idea of an attention span is, I think, a misnomer. People have an infinite attention span if you are entertaining them.
Interpretation
Attention span is dependent on the quality of engagement rather than a fixed trait.
In this quote, Jerry Seinfeld suggests that the concept of an 'attention span' may be a misleading idea. He argues that people can focus infinitely on things that entertain or engage them, indicating that the quality of what one is viewing determines how long they can pay attention, rather than an inherent limitation in their ability to concentrate.
In practice
In a presentation about effective teaching methods, you might quote Seinfeld to emphasize the importance of engaging content.
You spend so much time in the world of virtual that the actual - which nothing is more actual than stand-up - it's a painful experience for the audience, and the comedian a lot of time - we miss that.
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It is when suffering finds a voice and sets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us.
While you have a thing it can be taken from you…..but when you give it, you have given it. no robber can take it from you. It is yours then forever when you have given it. It will be yours always. That is to give.
If you write a novel where war is nothing but hell and no one experiences excitement or cracks a dark joke, then you're not actually admitting the full experience.
Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty.
You've always lived a life of pretense, not a real life-- a simulated existence, not a genuine existence. Everything about you, everything you are, has always been pretense, never genuine, never real.
I doubt if the texture of Southern life is any more grotesque than that of the rest of the nation, but it does seem evident that the Southern writer is particularly adept at recognizing the grotesque; and to recognize the grotesque, you have to have some notion of what is not grotesque and why.
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