Mature Quotes - Page 36

• Nothing is more important for mature Christian discipleship than a fresh, clear, true vision of the authentic Jesus.

  John Stott

  Christian, Jesus, Vision

  John Stott (2012). “The Radical Disciple”, p.26, SPCK

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• The art path leads you to be increasingly free. And what does "because of being increasingly free" mean? Julio Ramón Ribeyro used to say a mature novel demands the author's death, not literal death but metaphoric death, which is the author has to truly erase himself. Therefore, to be truly free, you have to break free from internal and external pressures, to erase the self completely and become a sort of medium, let the story pass through yourself and let the story dance with you.

  Rosa Montero

  Art, Mean, Path

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• My studio works in cycles. I am consistent with all of the practices, but I give attention to one part for a certain amount of time. I say, "Okay, I'm making performances," and sometimes that means I can't be making photographic works. As I'm maturing as an artist, years have passed and I feel that I'm becoming a better craftsperson in multiple fields, but that takes time. Also, because I trained as an actor, I hold this thing about how an actor prepares and therefore I try to prepare for all of my tasks.

  Xaviera Simmons

  Mean, Artist, Giving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• People will ask me, "How do you approach writing books for young readers differently than for adults?" My answer is always: I don't change anything about the story itself. I'm going to tell kids the way things really were. What I don't do - and this is the only thing I do differently in writing for kids - is that I don't revel in the gory details. I allow readers to fill in the details as necessary. But I don’t force kids to have to digest something they’re not mature enough or ready for yet. If they are, they can fill in the details even better than I could, just with their imaginations.

  Alan Gratz

  Book, Writing, Kids

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• If you want to write in a mature and interesting way, you have to have sympathy for everyone that's involved.

  Leigh Newman

  Writing, Interesting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Forty-years-old these days is the beginning of people's lives. I've found myself, I'm confident, I'm mature, I've been through some stuff, I'm ready to write my book.

  Nicole Ari Parker

  Book, Writing

  Source: lasentinel.net

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• When I approach a more mature age, I am not going to live in America. Visiting my grandmother, when she was 94, which is a very long life in Cambodia, I saw how important it was that she was in a community with my sisters, brothers and all grandchildren were so involved in her life. I liked that experience so much more than visiting my sister-in-law's grandparents in a nursing home. It's about looking at a community through your window versus being part of a community that's alive, that is youthful and old and hungry and smelly and loud, where everything is vibrant and colorful.

  Loung Ung

  Brother, Home, Grandmother

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Turning 40 is often a big symbolic point in one's life. In the 20s we feel we can do anything, but as the 30s progress we become more mature emotionally, and in terms of work tend to focus. These two things combined: emotional maturity and career focus, often produced an explosion of self-purpose in our 40s.

  Tom Butler-Bowdon

  Maturity, Emotional, Focus

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and in all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Life, Motivational, Humility

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.63, Westminster John Knox Press

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• The thing is, that when you're young, you always think you'll meet all sorts of wonderful people, that drifting apart and losing friends is natural. You don't worry, at first, about the friends you leave behind. But as you get older, it gets harder to build friendships. Too many defenses, too little opportunity. You get busy. And by the time you realize that you've lost the dearest best friend you've ever had, years have gone by and you're mature enough to be embarrassed by your attitude and, frankly, by your arrogance.

  Kate Jacobs

  Attitude, Opportunity, Thinking

  Kate Jacobs (2012). “The Friday Night Knitting Club”, p.47, Hachette UK

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• I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.

  Hermann Hesse

  Disappointment, Suffering, Vex

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Peter Camenzind: A Novel”, p.100, Macmillan

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• The older theory was, marry an older man because they're more mature. But the new theory is men don't mature. Marry a younger one.

  Rita Rudner

  Love, Marriage, Witty

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• Anyone with the maturity to surrender entirely to God is mature enough for God to use.

  Beth Moore

  Maturity, Use, Surrender

  Beth Moore (2008). “To Live Is Christ: Joining Paul's Journey of Faith”, p.104, B&H Publishing Group

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• Christians who neglect the Bible simply do not mature.

  John Stott

  Bible, Christian, Neglect

  John R. W. Stott (1991). “You Can Trust the Bible: Our Foundation for Belief and Obedience”, Discovery House Pub

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• When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough.

  Charles Kuralt

  Wise, Wisdom, Teacher

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• Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them.

  Winston Churchill

  Leadership, Moving, Inspiration

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