Maturity Quotes - Page 23

• The five kinds of grains are considered good plants, but if the grains are not ripe, they are worse than cockles. It is the same with regard to kindness, which must grow into maturity.

  Mencius

  Kindness, Compassion, Plant

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• The Christian views trials as a pathway to maturity.

  Matt Chandler

  Christian, Views, Pathways

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• How do you know that the fruit is ripe? Simply because it leaves the branch.

  Andre Gide

  Branches, Fruit, Knows

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.279, Routledge

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• A widow is a fascinating being with the flavor of maturity, the spice of experience, the piquancy of novelty, the tang of practiced coquetry, and the halo of one man's approval.

  Helen Rowland

  Men, Halos, Widows

  Helen Rowland (2017). “A Guide to Men: Being Encore Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”, p.45, Litres

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• On the neck of the young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise. Youth condemns; maturity condones.

  Amy Lowell

  Men, Necks, Sparkle

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• Acceptance by government of a dissident press is a measure of the maturity of a nation.

  William O. Douglas

  Acceptance, Government, Journalism

  William O. Douglas (1954). “An Almanac of Liberty”

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• I still want to play music but I don't want to look like Donald Duck while I'm doing it.

  Elton John

  Play, Ducks, Looks

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• Heroism does not require spiritual maturity.

  Abel Hermant

  Spiritual, Heroism, Doe

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• As we grow older, the memories of early life brighten, those of maturity and senescence grow dim and confused.

  Anthony Burgess

  Memories, Confused, Grows

  Anthony Burgess (1990). “You've had your time: being the second part of the confessions of Anthony Burgess”, Heinemann Educational Books

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• Just from being with my grandmother, my maturity escalated. And now I'm in tune to the needs of people. It was a large responsibility, taking care of a human being.

  Steve Garvey

  Responsibility, Grandmother, People

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• Understanding and love require a wisdom that comes only with age.

  Rollo May

  Understanding, Age, And Love

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.33, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I think what's happening for me, it's fun to see other things besides Facebook and Twitter take hold. The maturity of Tumblr as a real player is exciting. I think Pinterest has proved to be a major player. It's fun to see Instagram become a major player. It's fun to watch things like SnapChat, and Vine, try to vie to be the next thing.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Fun, Real, Thinking

  "Gary Vaynerchuk On Social Media Trends, Time Management, Online & Real-Life Balance (Q&A)". Interview with Craig Kanalley, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 1, 2013.

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• To me, growing into spiritual maturity is becoming less self-conscious and more God-conscious.

  Mark Batterson

  Spiritual, Self, Growing

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• I don't think anyone is black and white and I think we change our minds and our attitudes about certain things as we grow to our maturity.

  Giancarlo Esposito

  Attitude, Black And White, Thinking

  "Giancarlo Esposito talks ‘Breaking Bad,’ ‘Revolution’ and Emmys". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. July 31, 2012.

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• … what society overwhelmingly asks for is snake oil. Of course, the snake oil has the most impressive names — otherwise you would be selling nothing — like “Structured Analysis and Design”, “Software Engineering”, “Maturity Models”, “Management Information Systems”, “Integrated Project Support Environments” “Object Orientation” and “Business Process Re-engineering”.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Engineering, Snakes, Names

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• The dueling maturity levels in high school is such a source of comedy to me. I was always such a late developer. I was last to walk. I was last to ride a bike. I was last to have sex. That's why it's fun to portray one side of your childhood onscreen.

  Paul Feig

  Sex, Fun, School

  "Paul Feig walks us through Freaks And Geeks (Part 2 of 5)". Interview with Genevieve Koski, www.avclub.com. April 10, 2012.

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• I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.

  Rachel Johnson

  Children, Teenager, Thinking

  "Rachel Johnson: 'To anyone under 20 I'm basically Methuselah'" by Rachel Johnson, www.theguardian.com. March 3, 2012.

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• I grew up going to school and high school and then shooting a movie for a few months. It's an odd way to grow up and is kind of forced maturity.

  Logan Lerman

  Growing Up, School, Way

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• Age is relative. Experience is relative. And I think often intensity is confused with maturity.

  Laura Marling

  Confused, Thinking, Age

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• With girls, friendships are hard because you have to learn to get to a maturity level to love them but not want to be them.

  Nikki Reed

  Girl, Levels, Want

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• Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.

  Alain de Botton

  Inspiring, Opinion

  Twitter post from Jan 29, 2014

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• Almost all great writers have as their motif, more or less disguised, the passage from childhood to maturity, the clash between the thrill of expectation and the disillusioning knowledge of truth. 'Lost Illusion' is the undisclosed title of every novel.

  Andre Maurois

  Writing, Expectations, Childhood

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• You know, it's a different world now, but to skip ahead and really answer your question, only in the last five years did I find what I call holy maturity, finding the balance, finding the right person in my life so that I could live a normal life.

  Burt Ward

  Years, Balance, Answers

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• Sweet Love of youth, forgive, if I forget thee,
  While the world's tide is bearing me along;
  Sterner desires and darker hopes beset me,
  Hopes which obscure, but cannot do thee wrong.

  Emily Bronte

  Sweet, Forgiving, Desire

  Emily Bronte, “Remembrance”

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• At thirty years a woman asks her lover to give her back the esteem she has forfeited for his sake; she lives only for him, her thoughts are full of his future, he must have a great career, she bids him make it glorious; she can obey, entreat, command, humble herself, or rise in pride; times without number she brings comfort when a young girl can only make moan.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Girl, Women

  "A Woman of Thirty" by Honore de Balzac, translated by Ellen Marriag, (Ch. III), 1842.

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