Mature Quotes - Page 30

• 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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• Caesar was too old, it seems to me, to go off and amuse himself conquering the world. Such a pastime was all right for Augustus and Alexander; they were young men, not easily held in check, but Caesar ought to have been more mature.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, World, Conquer

  Blaise Pascal (2008). “Human Happiness”, Penguin Group USA

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• When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch.

  John Steinbeck

  Maturity, People, Travels With Charley

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.8, Penguin

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• The basic cause of all our difficulties is immaturity. That's why I talk so much about peace within ourselves as a step toward peace in our world. If we were mature, war would not be possible and peace would be assured. In our immaturity we do not know the laws of the universe, and we think evil can be overcome by more evil. One symptom of our immaturity is greed, making it difficult for us to learn the simple lesson of sharing.

  Peace Pilgrim

  War, Simple, Thinking

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• Things are much more complicated. Feminism versus pornography, for example. There are a lot of feminists who think it is bad, but others think it's good.
  I have become, you might call it mature - I would call it senile - and I can see both sides. But you can't write a satirical song with 'but on the other hand' in it, or 'however'. It's got to be one-sided.

  Tom Lehrer

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  Sydney Morning Herald interview, www.smh.com.au. March 1, 2003.

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• My favorite memories were never about candy or anything like that. When I got to be a teenager, my friends and I used to get together and do all kinds of crazy stuff on Halloween night. We had a ball starting trouble. Now that I'm more mature I realize that wasn't the right way to act, but it was the time of my life back then.

  Tony Harrison

  Memories, Crazy, Halloween

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• Armstrong was the key creator of the mature working language of jazz. Three decades after his death and more than three-quarters of a century since his influence first began to spread, not a single musician who has mastered that language fails to make daily use, knowingly or unknowingly, of something that was invented by Louis Armstrong.

  Dan Morgenstern

  Keys, Three, Use

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• The responsibility of building leadership in the Church belongs to the father and the mother. . . . As youth grow and mature through their teenage years and move toward adulthood, the Church picks up an important role in this process of giving youth an opportunity to lead, but it begins in the home.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Mother, Teenage, Father

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• We should be patient in developing and strengthening our testimonies. Rather than expecting immediate or spectacular manifestations, though they will come when needed, we should pray for a testimony, study the scriptures, follow the counsel of our prophet and other Church leaders, and live the principles of the gospel. Our testimonies then will grow and mature naturally, perhaps imperceptibly at times, until they become driving forces in our lives.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Leader, Church, Scripture

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• The most mature human insight comes from one's introspection rather than from exterior research.

  Hugh Downs

  Research, Introspection, Insight

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• I don't know if any of us are mature enough to handle the brutal honesty of what's inside other people's heads.

  James Marsters

  Honesty, People, Enough

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