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“I'm very lucky that I get to make a living out of acting, which is what I love, and the level of attention I receive has sometimes been my own fault and sometimes not been.”

Sometimes My Own Levels Acting Attention Lucky Faults

Author:Sienna Miller

“It's not our fault our generation has short attention spans, Dad. We watch an appalling amount of TV.”

Attention Watches Generations Tvs Amount Dad Faults Our Generation Attention Span Short Attention Spans

Author:Yeardley Smith

“Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so much attention that a husband and wife, concentrating on their children, fail to notice each other's faults.”

Way Children Helping Together Numbers Attention Wife Failing Husband Demand Faults Instance Husband And Wife Concentrating Armour Husband Wife

Author:Richard Armour

“If the members of a class do not understand -- if those directly addressed fail to listen, or listening, fail to recognize a power in the voice -- surely the fault lies with the speaker, who, having attempted to secure their attention and enlighten their understandings, has failed in the attempt.”

Ifs Lying Understanding Voice Attention Class Failing Listening Members Faults Secure Speakers Enlightening

Book:The Principles of Success in Literature

Source: The Principles of Success in Literature

“We have to try to cure our faults by attention and not by will.”

Trying Attention Faults Cures

Book:Gravity and Grace

Source: Gravity and Grace

“The most striking fault in work by young or beginning novelists, submitted for criticism, is irrelevance--due either to infatuation or indecision. To direct such an author's attention to the imperative of relevance is certainly the most useful--and possibly the only--help that can be given.”

Helping Young Given Attention Fiction Direct Criticism Faults Dues Novelists Infatuation Imperatives Relevance Indecision Irrelevance

Book:Pictures and conversations

Source: Pictures and conversations

“The definition of good prose is proper words in their proper places; of good verse, the most proper words in their proper places.The propriety is in either case relative. The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more; if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in general, a fault.”

Ifs Poetry Attention Cases Poet Ought Faults Definitions Prose Relative Verses Propriety

Book:Specimens of the Table Talk of the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge: In Two Volumes

Source: Specimens of the Table Talk of the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge: In Two Volumes

“Want of perseverance is the great fault of women in everything--morals, attention to health, friendship, and so on. It cannot be too often repeated that women never reach the end of anything through want of perseverance.”

Want Ends Attention Moral Faults Perseverance

Author:Suzanne Curchod

“If you give me your attention, I will tell you what I am: I'm a genuine philanthropist--all other kinds are sham. Each little fault of temper and each social defect In my erring fellow creatures, I endeavor to correct.”

Ifs Giving Kind Littles Social Attention Creatures Give Me Fellows Faults Genuine Manners Endeavor Temper Defects Philanthropist Erring

Book:The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan

Source: The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan

“It is by no means enough that an officer should be capable. . . . He should be as well a gentleman of liberal education, refined manners, punctilious courtesy, and the nicest sense of personal honor. . . . No meritorious act of a subordinate should escape his attention, even if the reward be only one word of approval. Conversely, he should not be blind to a single fault in any subordinate.”

Ifs Should Wells Mean Enough Attention Honor Capable Blind Faults Rewards Manners Gentleman Officers Approval Courtesy One Word Refined Subordinates Naval Liberal Education

Author:John Paul Jones

“Pay attention, people! There's no excuse for making the same mistakes that others have made. If you do, it's your own fault and you should expect no sympathy, no compassion.”

People Ifs Should Made Pay Attention Mistake Compassion Faults Excuse Pay Attention No Excuses Same Mistakes No Sympathy No Compassion Making The Same Mistakes

Author:Donald Trump

“The normal kid can differentiate between various aspects of life, but a kid with dyslexia has to connect all those dots, and they have to link it like a chain. Teachers can't incorporate that. They don't have time; it's not their fault. They don't have the resources to give personal attention to each kid in the classroom.”

Giving Kids Attention Teacher Normal Resources Aspect Faults Various Chains Links Classroom Dots Differentiate Aspects Of Life Dyslexia

Author:Malik Yusef