Mature Quotes - Page 20

• The mature, forty-five-year-old woman, quite experienced in matters of life and death, knows that it was 'for the best,' but Daddy's girl, who hung onto his belt and danced fox trots on the tops of his shoes, cannot accept that Daddy is not here anymore.

  Mary-Lou Weisman

  Girl, Death, Years

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• With the exception of the few cases to be discussed in the next chapter, adolescence represented no period of crisis or stress, but was instead an orderly developing of a set of slowly maturing interests and activities.

  Margaret Mead

  Stress, Next, Cases

  Margaret Mead (1973). “Coming of Age in Samoa”

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• I want to be a mature artist with a different kind of thinking.

  Maria Callas

  Artist, Thinking, Different

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• Art is not a mirror but an icon. It takes the chaos in which we live and shows us structure and pattern, not the structure of conformity which imprisons but the structure which liberates,
  sets us free to become growing, mature human beings.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Art, Mirrors, Icons

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.74, Open Road Media

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• Alekhine developed as a player much more slowly than most. In his twenties, he was an atrocious chessplayer, and didn't mature until he was well into his thirties.

  Bobby Fischer

  Player, Twenties, Alekhine

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• Venting every feeling isn't mature. Learning to deal with uncomfortable and unpleasant feelings is an important aspect of maturity.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Maturity, Feelings, Important

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• The maturing of a woman who has continued to grow is a beautiful thing to behold. Or, if your ad revenue or your seven-figure salary or your privileged sexual status depend on it, it is an operable condition.

  Naomi Wolf

  Beautiful, Salary, Seven

  Naomi Wolf (1990). “The Beauty Myth”, Vintage

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• In March several of the Mandrakes threw a loud and raucous party in greenhouse three. This made Professor Sprout very happy. “The moment they start trying to move into each other’s pots, we’ll know they’re fully mature,” she told Harry.

  J. K. Rowling

  Moving, Party, Trying

  J. K. Rowling (1999). “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets”, Raincoast Books

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• ...I'd have cheerfully thrown Her Majesty and her hundred pounds of baggage to the curb, but that wasn't mature. ~Cat on Annette

  Jeaniene Frost

  Majesty, Baggage, Pounds

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• Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something else.

  George P. Baker

  Immature, Impulse, Humans

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• At HBO, they seem to be well-informed. They make what I think are really quite mature films.

  Bruce Beresford

  Thinking, Hbo, Film

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• What people really suffer from is immaturity. Among mature people war would not be a problem - it would be impossible.

  Peace Pilgrim

  War, People, Suffering

  Peace Pilgrim (1981). “Steps Toward Inner Peace”, p.30, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Men don't mature. Marry a younger one.

  Rita Rudner

  Men

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• It is the individual man in his individual freedom who can mature with his warm spirit the unripe world.

  Christopher Fry

  Men, World, Spirit

  Christopher Fry (2007). “Fry: Plays Three”, p.25, Oberon Books

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• The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained.

  Marya Mannes

  Art, Effort, Age And Youth

  Marya Mannes (1958). “More in Anger”

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• The mature mind seeks to follow through.

  Harry Allen Overstreet

  Mind, Follow Through

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• The superficiality of many is a result of deep fears. It takes spare time to think things out; it takes free time to mature. People in a hurry may not think well or mature well. The next best is a state of perpetual puerility.

  Eric Hoffer

  Thinking, People, May

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• Mature psychological health cannot exist unless we are capable of doubting any form of conceptual certitude about ourselves or anything else.

  Richard Moss

  Psychological Health, Doubt, Form

  Richard Moss, MD (2010). “The Mandala of Being: Discovering the Power of Awareness”, p.280, New World Library

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• Writing is one thing and knowledge is another. Writing is the photographing of knowledge, but it is not knowledge itself. Knowledge is a light which is within man. It is the heritage of all the ancestors knew and have transmitted to us as seed, just as the mature baobab is contained in its seed.

  Amadou Hampate Ba

  Writing, Men, Light

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• Mature art, I think, emerges when there's a certain balance
  of tensions, when there's neither neurotic prostration nor
  cold rationality, but an aura of energy and a drive to grasp
  personal "truths" still emerging into perception.
  To grasp and to shape them.

  Earle Birney

  Art, Thinking, Perception

  Earle Birney (1972). “The cow jumped over the moon: the writing and reading of poetry”, Holt McDougal

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• Turn off your computer and go out of doors. Dig a large enough hole to transplant a mature apple tree. Nurture the tree, feed it, coddle it so that its fruit will be ample, bright and firm. Practice open-hand strikes against the rough bark of the trunk until it's time to harvest. Choose the champion of your apple crop, pluck it from the tree, and beat yourself about the face and tits with it until your mettle will suffice.

  Nick Offerman

  Doors, Hands, Practice

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. March 13, 2013.

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• My friends tend not to style me, fortunately. But if we're in a public setting, they must do it there. Of course, there has been a maturing process for me and for them. But such is my life. I'm very comfortable with both the role and the life I live in relation to my nearest and dearest.

  Mette-Marit, Crown Princess of Norway

  Style, Roles, Process

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• You’ve got to fight for that connection with God all the time no matter what you're going through in life. I'm growing up. I'm maturing. But I definitely think that the backbone of this is the freedom and creativity I have without the fear of failing. If I fail, what's going to happen? Nothing. I'm not looking for my self-worth in the sport.

  Kelly Clark

  Sports, Growing Up, Creativity

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• You can imagine an already unstable mind that's completely entitled and has been given anything they wanted, throughout their whole life, and lived in a bubble with a domineering, in a very quietly manipulating way, mother, that child mentality never gets a chance to mature and discover its own limitations. It just runs rampant.

  Finn Wittrock

  Mother, Running, Children

  Source: collider.com

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• Newspapers write about other newspapers with circumspection, ... about themselves with awe, and only after mature reflection.

  A. J. Liebling

  Writing, Reflection, Newspapers

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