But above that, most mature adults can hold their attention on something for 45 minutes, whether they like it or not. But above that requires training.
Kids don't shuffle along in unison on the road to maturity. They slouch toward adulthood at an uneven, highly individual pace.
With mortal age comes the immense need for childish charms. Like a fine wine, sweetens with maturity.
I was always a big fan of waiting a year of two to groom an NFL quarterback; let him learn and mature.
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
You see, dancers are quite mature people because they start performing so early. They become professionals when they start to take everyday classes.
But I also think it's up to the fan base to call in the radio stations and demand that the more mature artists be played as well.
I would like to thank the Cypriot people for their maturity and collectedness shown in their interactions with the Cypriot Banks.
We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free.
I don't think arrested-adolescent humor will fade. Maybe the form will change, but I guarantee its replacement will still be based in immature behavior from mature figures.
I don't think anyone is black and white and I think we change our minds and our attitudes about certain things as we grow to our maturity.
Our troops are committed to bringing security to Iraq while its government matures. American forces will continue to accomplish their mission with caution, precision and honor with the thanks of a grateful nation.
The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.
When you're a kid, 'Star Trek' is a slower burn. It's funny, it's entertaining, but it also has a maturity about it - which is its universal appeal, I think.
To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of the world and of ourselves is attained or matured, is a object which does not stand in need of commendation to a rationa...
We too, through lack of knowledge and of sufficiently mature reflection, mistook the visible outward appearance of the phenomenon for the phenomenon itself.
Avoiding maturity is, for many men, not just a cute hobby, but a life's work - often handsomely rewarded in the infantile popular culture of the West.
I think the dot-com boom and bust represented the end of the beginning. The industry is more mature today.
The league, I think, is doing well. It's growing, it's maturing, and it's becoming a better league.
No matter the nature of your individuality, you can nurture a better identity and have a mature positively rewarding life.
There's a part of you that always remains a child, no matter how mature you get, how sophisticated or weary.
