Mature Quotes - Page 8

• I had been performing since I was 5, so it wasn't like I hadn't been on a stage before. I was always older than my age. That's my nature. I've always been a kind of mature kid.

  Irene Cara

  Kids, Age, Kind

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• I hope to always be myself, except more mature and knowing more.

  David Archuleta

  Knowing, Knowing More

  "'American Idol' Runner-Up David Archuleta Works On Debut Lp, Looks Forward To Reuniting With Ex-Rivals On Tour" by Chris Harris, www.mtv.com. June 24, 2008.

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• If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. It is not important that he should mature as soon as an apple-tree or oak. Shall he turn his spring into summer? If the condition of things which we were made for is not yet, what were any reality which we can substitute? We will not be shipwrecked on a vain reality.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Summer, Spring

  Walden ch. 18 (1854). Frequently quoted as "marches to the tune of a different drummer."

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• Men are not as sophisticated as women. They're not as mature as women. They're not as connected with their emotions as women...There's a very Neanderthal quality that still exists in a lot of men... And if you're in the public eye, to me, it's very boring to say what you have to say and be media trained to the extent that you don't ever reveal any truth. There was a time in my life when I lived probably a bit more on the primal level. And it was amazing.

  Adam Levine

  Eye, Men, Media

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• The delight in gambits is a sign of chess youth... In very much the same way as the young man, on reaching his manhood years, lays aside the Indian stories and stories of adventure, and turns to the psychological novel, we with maturing experience leave off gambit playing and become interested in the less vivacious but withal more forceful manoeuvres of the position player.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Adventure, Player, Men

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• Stories, like whiskey, must be allowed to mature in the cask.

  Sean O Faolain

  Writing, Stories, Whiskey

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• Cynicism is no more mature than naïveté. You're no more mature, just more burned.

  Karl Marlantes

  Vets, Cynicism, Burned

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• In spite of his flaws, Oscar had a big heart and was always ready to help whoever was in need. He was affable, kind, extremely generous and charitable, but at the same time, not mature at all. He constantly lied and deceived me, and later returned feeling sorry, like a boy caught in mischief, asking to be forgiven one more time - and then we would start all over again.

  Emilie Schindler

  Sorry, Heart, Boys

  "Where Light and Shadow Meet : A Memoir". Book by Erika Rosenberg, 1997.

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• I think there's a really mature side of me that can deal with problems - but when I'm with my friends, I get to act much more kidlike.

  Dakota Blue Richards

  Thinking, Sides, Problem

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• Even when I think I'm writing really young, they say it's too mature.

  Cynthia Weil

  Writing, Thinking, Young

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• No mirror ever became iron again;
  No bread ever became wheat;
  No ripened grape ever became sour fruit.
  Mature yourself and be secure from a change for the worse.
  Become the light.

  Rumi

  Courage, Maturity, Light

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2008). “The Pocket Rumi”, p.138, Shambhala Publications

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• The mature person perceives the fruitlessness of rigid, external methodologies; Remembering this, he keeps his attitude unstructured at all times and thus is always free to pursue the Integral Way. He studies the teachings of the masters. He dissolves all concepts of duality. He pours himself out in service to others.

  Laozi

  Maturity, Mature Person, Service To Others

  "Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu".

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• To recognize causes is to think, and through thought alone feelings become knowledge and are not lost, but become real and begin to mature.

  Hermann Hesse

  Real, Thinking, Maturity

  Hermann Hesse (1998). “Siddhartha”

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• One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often manifests itself in upholding the word against the evidence of the eyes. Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.

  Eric Hoffer

  Children, Growing Up, Eye

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Of all the intellectual faculties, judgment is the last to mature. A child under the age of fifteen should confine its attention either to subjects like mathematics, in which errors of judgment are impossible, or to subjects in which they are not very dangerous, like languages, natural science, history, etc.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Children, Math, Maturity

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• Every child has to disobey the father. Unless a child disobeys the father he never becomes mature. It is nothing, original, it is very simple and natural. It is very psychological. There comes an age when every child has to say NO to the parents. If he does not say no to the parents he will not have a spine; he will be spineless. If he cannot say no to the parents, he will be a slave his whole life. He will never attain to individuality.

  Rajneesh

  Children, Father, Simple

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• Man is afraid, the world is a strange world, and man wants to be secure, safe. In childhood the father protects, the mother protects. But there are many people, millions of them, who never grow beyond their childhoods. They remain stuck somewhere, and they still need a father and a mother. Hence God is called the Father or the Mother. They need a divine Father to protect them; they are not mature enough to be on their own. They need some security.

  Rajneesh

  Mother, Father, Men

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• The universe is a soul making machine, and part of that process is learning, maturing, and growing through difficult and challenging and painful experiences. The point of our lives in this world isn't comfort, but training and preparation for eternity.

  Lee Strobel

  Painful Experiences, Challenges, Soul

  Lee Strobel (2000). “The Case for Faith: A Journalist Investigates the Toughest Objections to Christianity”, p.41, Harper Collins

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• To mature means to take responsibility for your life, to be on your own. Psychoanalysis fosters the infantile state by considering that the past is responsible for the illness.

  Frederick Salomon Perls

  Mean, Responsibility, Past

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• It seems to me that any full grown, mature adult would have a desire to be responsible, to help where he can in a world that needs so very much, that threatens us so very much.

  Norman Lear

  Change, Making A Difference, Desire

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• The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained. By the age of fifty you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.

  Marya Mannes

  Art, Maturity, Effort

  Marya Mannes (1958). “More in Anger”

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• Any chemist reading this book can see, in some detail, how I have spent most of my mature life. They can become familiar with the quality of my mind and imagination. They can make judgements about my research abilities. They can tell how well I have documented my claims of experimental results. Any scientist can redo my experiments to see if they still work-and this has happened! I know of no other field in which contributions to world culture are so clearly on exhibit, so cumulative, and so subject to verification.

  Donald Cram

  Reading, Book, Science

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• What kind of living can be out of fear? Once the armor is dropped you can live out of love, you can live in a mature way. The fully matured man has no fear, no defense; he is psychologically completely open and vulnerable.

  Rajneesh

  Fear, Love You, Men

  Rajneesh Osho (2003). “The World Beyond Time”, p.159, Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd

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• A mature person should disconnect himself from anything that is connected with fear. That`s how maturity comes. Just watch all your acts, all your beliefs, and find out whether they are based in reality, in experience, or based in fear. And anything based in fear has to be dropped immediately, without a second thought. It is your armor. I cannot melt it. I can simply show you how you can drop it.

  Rajneesh

  Fear, Maturity, Reality

  Rajneesh Osho (2003). “The World Beyond Time”, p.160, Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd

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• Mature prayer always breaks into gratitude.

  Richard Rohr

  Gratitude, Prayer, Break

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