Mature Quotes - Page 28

• The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.

  Moliere

  Few Friends, Firsts, Becoming

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• People say my content's mature, I don't think it's mature at all. I'm just a normal 20 year old. I'm opinionated.

  Amy Winehouse

  Thinking, Years, People

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• My biggest problem with President Bush is when we were in kindergarten together, he broke my favorite red crayon! Since that moment, my psychiatrist told me that I haven't been able to move forward as a person. Severely hindering the chances of me being able to mature any since that tragic day. For that, I'll never forgive him.

  Carolyn Parrish

  Moving Forward, Forgiving, President

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• A tragedy, when a mature mind and a romantic heart are in the same body.

  Nizar Qabbani

  Heart, Mind, Tragedy

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• Heartbreak is how we mature... There is almost no path a human being can follow that does not lead to heartbreak.

  David Whyte

  Doe, Path, Humans

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• Sanctification has a double aspect. Its positive side is vivification, the growing and maturing of the new man; its negative side is mortification, the weakening and killing of the old man.

  J. I. Packer

  Men, Negative, Growing

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• I think at its most mature, love is a very bourgeois state. There is something about luxuriating in the nest of love that people fall into naturally.

  Alexandra Cassavetes

  Fall, Love Is, Thinking

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• Yes, people are busy every day creating new karma for themselves. The reason is they overreact to every slight... Grace and respect are two signs of a mature spiritual individual, whatever his religion or belief.

  Harold Klemp

  Karma, Spiritual, Two

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• I remember that mathematicians were telling me in the 1960s that they would recognize computer science as a mature discipline when it had 1,000 deep algorithms. I think we've probably reached 500.

  Donald Knuth

  Thinking, Discipline, Algorithms

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• There's always the syndrome of the parent-child relationship: when someone has known you since you were very young, it doesn't matter how much more independent, how much older or more mature you get - there is still that element, the dynamic of the relationship that is very hard to successfully transform, and that has nothing to do with the music-making, in the end.

  Helene Grimaud

  Children, Independent, Parent

  Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. January 29, 2014.

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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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• If you don't keep and guard and mature your force, and above all, have time and quiet to perfect your work, you will be writing things not much better than you did five years ago.

  Willa Cather

  Writing, Years, Perfect

  Willa Cather (1970). “Collected Short Fiction, 1892-1912”, p.24, U of Nebraska Press

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