Maturity Quotes

Traumatic events always happen exactly two years before I reach the maturity level to deal with them.

When I became a mature woman, I put both feet firmly on the side of maturity.

My biggest achievement - besides being drafted into the NBA - was becoming a father. Being a father has made me experience things that have contributed to my maturity and personal growth.

What we are is our parents' children; what we become is our children's parents.

Obviously, the young dancers lack a certain air of maturity.

Aloneness is a wise teacher. Kierkegaard remarked that one sign of spiritual maturity was the ability to be comfortable when alone.

How many really capable men are children more than once during the day!

Know how to behave at a fine restaurant, which is a telltale measure of social maturity.

Woman submits to her fate; man makes his

Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.

Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.

What is a great life but a youthful intention carried out in maturity?

When Louis XIV assumed the reins of government France suddenly and wonderfully came to her maturity; it was as if the whole nation had burst into splendid flower.

I believe that the experience of childhood is irretrievable. All that remains, for any of us, is a headful of brilliant frozen moments, already dangerously distorted by the wisdoms of maturity.

I feel like I'm 18, with the maturity level of like a 14-year-old. I'm still the same goofball; I'm still in college, as far as I'm concerned.

It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.

Mr. Darwin refers to the multitude of the individual of every species, which, from one cause or another, perish either before, or soon after attaining maturity.

Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.

Maturity is the ability to relate appropriately to other realities than one's own.

I'd date someone younger or older age doesn't matter to me. Or looks, really - it's all about maturity.

I believe my signal of maturity as a filmmaker iswhen I'll actually acknowledge the fact that the first take is usuallythe best.

For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity.

One trouble with a kind of falsely therapeutic and always reassuring attitude that it is easy to fall into with old people, is the tendency to be satisfied with too little.

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 recognize causes is to think, and through thought alone feelings become knowledge and are not lost, but become real and begin to mature.

For there to be true maturity, people must be given room to grow, which includes room to fail.

Education as growth or maturity should be an ever-present process.

Change means traveling in uncharted waters and this causes our securities to rise.

When your through changing, your through!

The finest flowers of genius have grown in an atmosphere where those of Nature are prone to droop, and difficult to bring to maturity.

The First Amendment makes confidence in the common sense of our people and in the maturity of their judgement the great postulate of our democracy.

Antithesis may be the blossom of wit, but it will never arrive at maturity unless sound sense be the trunk and truth the root.

He feared his maturity as it grew upon him with its ripe thought, its skill, its finished art; yet which lacked the poetry of boyhood to make living a full end of life.

Maturity is largely about acquiring the confidence and the competence to make your own decisions.

Maturity is simply the process of discovering that everything you believed in when you were young is false and that all the things you refused to believe in turn out to be true.

The American male doesn't mature until he has exhausted all other possibilities.

I was so much older then; I'm younger than that now. From the back pages

Between childhood, boyhood, adolescence & manhood (maturity) there should be sharp lines drawn w/ Tests , deaths, feats, rites stories, songs, & judgements.

Tomatoes and squash never fail to reach maturity. You can spray them with acid, beat them with sticks and burn them; they love it.

I think some people in their 20s really get it, that acting is about creativity and the work. They get their maturity from their work.

Part of the maturity of the sciences is an appreciation of which questions are best left to other disciplinary approaches.

We do not ignore maturity. Maturity consists in not losing the past while fully living in the present with a prudent awareness of the possibilities of the future.

Like to have a catalyst - reduces dependence on the market: Distressed debt inherently has a catalyst - maturity.

Show me a man with both feet on the ground and I'll show you a man who can't get his pants on.

Until you're grown-up they send you to reform school. After you're grown-up they send you to the penitentiary.

You simply don't get to be wise, mature, etc., unless you've been a raving cannibal for thirty years or so.

College was to teach me that I was one of life's journeymen, eager to excel but lacking the requisite gifts.

Age is relative. Experience is relative. And I think often intensity is confused with maturity.

Then you must reconcile yourself to the fact that something is always hurt by any change. If you do this, you will not be hurt yourself.

Maturity is the ability to sort the portions of truth from the accepted lies and self-deceptions that you have grown up with.