Mature Quotes - Page 13

• I was never very mature in my relationships with women. First sign of conflict, I was gone.

  John Mahoney

  Firsts, Gone, Conflict

  "Take a chance on me" by Harriet Lane, www.theguardian.com. August 3, 2002.

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• The challenges surrounding HIV and AIDS are getting more complex and mature, and we just can't stick our heads in the sand and say 'it can't happen to me.'

  Brande Roderick

  Challenges, Hiv, Sticks

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• The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.”“The better we get at getting better, the faster we will get better.”“In 20 or 30 years, you’ll be able to hold in your hand as much computing knowledge as exists now in the whole city, or even the whole world.”“The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment they can tolerate.”“The key thing about all the world’s big problems is that they have to be dealt with collectively. If we don’t get collectively smarter, we’re doomed.

  Douglas Engelbart

  Writing, Keys, Hands

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• Intuition is natural by-product of flowering of a mature self-esteem and a sense of empowerment – not power over, but power to be

  Caroline Myss

  Self Esteem, Empowerment, Intuition

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• Sometimes without shooting a picture germinates in your head. Other times, you keep taking pictures of the same thing and watch the images mature and grow.

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, Watches, Shooting

  Jay Maisel (2014). “Light, Gesture, and Color”, p.62, New Riders

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• I want to tap into different styles. Something definitely mature, sultry, sensual, easy listening that everyone can enjoy. Every one of every race and everyone that likes different styles.

  LaToya London

  Race, Sensual, Style

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• Like a child exploring the attic of an old house on a rainy day, discovering a trunk full of treasure and then calling all his brothers and sisters to share the find, Richard J. 'Foster has 'found' the spiritual disciplines that the modern world has stored away and forgot, and has excitedly called us to celebrate them. For they are, as he shows us, the instruments of joy, the way into mature Christian spirituality and abundant life.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Christian, Spiritual, Brother

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• I realize that I'm a mature woman and one of these days, incredible diet or not, I'll be a little old lady.

  Victoria Moran

  Littles, Realizing, Incredibles

  "Veg and the City: The Life Changing Effects of a Raw Food Diet" by Victoria Moran, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 18, 2010.

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• I'd like to think that I'm getting slightly more mature as time goes on, but I don't know if my fiancee would necessarily agree.

  Chris O'Dowd

  Thinking, Goes On, Agree

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• A lot of bands mature, which means they get square; they start delivering messages. Hey, you got a message, use Western Union.

  David Lee

  Mean, Squares, Band

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• Won't the new 'Suggested for Mature Audience' protect our youngsters from such films? I don't believe so. I know many forty-five-year old men with the mentalities of six-year-olds, and my feeling is that they should not see such pictures, either.

  Shirley Temple

  Believe, Men, Years

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• You see, the secret of the gospel is that we become more spiritually mature when we focus less on what we need to do for God and focus more on all that God has already done for us. The irony of the gospel is that we actually perform better as we grow in our understanding that our relationship with God is based on Christ's performance for us, not our performance for him.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Focus, Understanding, Secret

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• I was getting close to thirty and was trying on the idea of becoming more mature. I was reading more. I had gone out and bought a lot of shirts.

  Joe Meno

  Reading, Ideas, Trying

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• Being more mature now, I've managed to make peace with my past, as it's making peace with me. Certainly there's a mutual gain for reflecting on both phases of my life, and although I consider the here and now perhaps to be more important, there are still many people who appreciate my past ephemeral stages and the lessons they represent.

  Cat Stevens

  Past, People, Appreciate

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• We live surrounded by a systematic appeal to a dream world which all mature, scientific reality would reject. We, quite literally, advertise our commitment to immaturity, mendacity and profound gullibility. It is as the hallmark of the culture. And it is justified as being economically indispensable.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Dream, Commitment, Reality

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2001). “The Essential Galbraith”, p.104, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I think that every band tries to mature their sound through their existence, you know?

  Adam Rich

  Thinking, Trying, Sound

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• In documentary films, you're a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story arc and all the elements that make a good story. It really helped me mature as a storyteller.

  Garth Stein

  Found Objects, Documentaries, Stories

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• I like to protect children. I mean, there's nothing wrong with having adult programming for mature adults that can selectively decide what they want to watch and what they don't want to watch.

  Burt Ward

  Children, Mean, Adults

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• When trees mature, it is fair and moral that they are cut for man's use, as they would soon decay and return to the earth. Trees have a yearning to live again, perhaps to provide the beauty, strength and utility to serve man, even to become an object of great artistic worth.

  George Nakashima

  Cutting, Men, Tree

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• Good authors mature over time: it does take awhile. Travel abroad and learn to live in other cultures. That's one of the things about teaching abroad.

  Richard K. Morgan

  Teaching, Other Cultures, Doe

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• I would like to have a girlfriend who is more mature than my mental age.

  Yuki

  Girlfriend, Age

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• We don't accidentally drift into holiness; rather we mature gradually and purposefully, one choice at a time.

  C. J. Mahaney

  Choices, Holiness

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• I feel about 18, but my mind is much more mature now, so it's a perfect combination.

  Oksana Chusovitina

  Perfect, Mind, Combination

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• Women waited 144 years before earning suffrage. If a mature, multiparty democracy was so darn easy, everybody would have one.

  Thomas P.M. Barnett

  Years, Democracy, Earning

  Thomas P.M. Barnett (2009). “Great Powers: America and the World After Bush”, p.69, Penguin

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• My world was completely different to other boys my age. When I was six I was earning money, and by 10 I was paying more tax than the parents of other pupils. I feel a lot older than my years. Because I was working with adults, I had to mature a lot quicker.

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson

  Boys, Years, Parent

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