Sentence examples for neglect the things from inspiring English sources

There are some great jokes in here; I loved the 12-step program for the "Personally Dead" ("Grant me the stupidity to deny there's anything I cannot change, the temerity to neglect the things I can, and the ignorance to be incapable of distinguishing between the two") but, as usual with Self's novels, the conceit rides roughshod over such small matters as character and plot.

We tend to focus so much on what we need to do and what is in our way, that we neglect the things we checked off that list, and the things that went well.

Don't neglect the things that go along with sex, including foreplay.

The worms obliterate evidence of neglect, the things that provoke annoying pinpricks of kitchen guilt, and give you compost in return.

Like the self-confident 17th-century ruling class of merchants smugly gazing from the portraits of Frans Hals, the 21st-century regenten looked out for themselves and neglected the things that bothered ordinary people.In the Netherlands the beef was with the immigration that created "dish cities" of Turkish and Moroccan households tuned to satellite television from abroad.

A lot of the "popular" kids are just doing the things they think others will find cool, and are actually neglecting the things they find interesting.

Apparently if we're constantly checking to see if anyone retweets our bon mots we're more likely to neglect the other things that are important if you want to qualify as a fully functioning person, like eating or sleeping.

Let's play a game -- it's called "How long can CNN talk about a freak wave of arctic weather across more than half the country without saying the words 'climate change?'" I watched for 30 minutes today without hearing one mention of it, but I'm not sure if that means I win or the rest of the world loses as we continue to neglect the one thing that may do us in before anything else.

The Bundesliga has lost another big ish) name but sympathy for their plight will be in short supply: club president Martin Kind has expended so much time fighting skirmishes with the supporters and pushing for a relaxation of ownership rules that he neglected the simple things: hiring a decent sporting director and manager, for example.

Matt Prior admits England lost the Ashes in Australia because they neglected the "little things" and let standards slip.

"I live to neglect the other half of things".