Mature Quotes - Page 24

• I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.

  Harriet Walter

  Long, Kind, Enough

  4 Copy quote

• I think age is terribly overrated. You're okay as long as you don't grow up. By all means grow old, but don't mature. Remain childlike, retain wonder, the ability to be flabbergasted by something.

  Billy Connolly

  Growing Up, Mean, Thinking

  43 Copy quote

• I look at my career and I feel I have the potential to maybe mature into a Samuel Jackson-type older cat, and people will still respect me and say 'Yo, Ice-T was wild', into my old age. And why not? I don't necessarily think I'll be rapping in 10 years.

  Ice T

  Rap, Cat, Thinking

  Source: thequietus.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Software will get to be somewhat more mature, ah, but it will never be as predictable as most areas of engineering.

  Bill Gates

  Engineering, Software, Areas

  8 Copy quote

• I think about the story while I think about other things. This is an important part of the process: I look at it sideways. If I look straight at it, it produces nothing other than what seem like complicated, brilliant designs that fall apart the following morning. In some way stories mature when you're not looking.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Morning, Fall, Thinking

  "There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We all know people for that length of time and people change. They mature. There is a certain expectation that a fictional character does not change. But you can't go back and play him the same way.

  David Duchovny

  Character, Play, People

  "David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson talk The X-Files revival". Interview with John Nugent, www.empireonline.com. January 13, 2016.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I would say I'm more patient, way more patient than I was when I came in [to the league], before the injuries. But I think just going through everything, just maturing a little bit more, getting older, you start to see what it is and I'm good.

  Derrick Rose

  Thinking, League, Getting Older

  "Derrick Rose Talks Butler, His Evolution As A Player & People’s Opinions". Interview with Jimmy Butler, defpen.com. January 12, 2016.

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• Every now and then it feels like it's just been a few days ago, a few weeks ago since we got started; but looking back through photographs and listening to the older albums and stuff, you can definitely feel some maturing and some distance in between the club days and where we are now

  Eddie Montgomery

  Distance, Listening, Albums

  8 Copy quote

• Comedy today is definitely skewed to the filthy side, but it's not as hard today as I am more mature as a comedian and a person. I'm a grown up now doing a kid's job. Being a more mature Christian these days makes it easier than when I first started. Now I get to do shows of my choosing and a lot of folks attending the shows know my work and expect a clean show.

  Henry Cho

  Christian, Jobs, Kids

  7 Copy quote

• Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.

  Lionel Trilling

  Art, Cynical, Immature

  In Esquire Sept. 1962. Cf. Igor Stravinsky 210:16

  54 Copy quote

  Show source

• I've been doing short-form writing for a decade, and six years ago I signed with an agent, and we've been working on figuring out what my book would be. I was always so embarrassed that it took me so long to figure it out, but I think, in retrospect, I just wasn't ready to write a book six years ago. I wasn't confident enough as a writer and I wasn't coherent enough in my worldview. It just took this long for me to be a mature enough writer and be ready to do it.

  Lindy West

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  4 Copy quote

• We love to see any redness in the vegetation of the temperate zone. It is the color of colors. This plant speaks to our blood....What a perfect maturity it arrives at! It is the emblem of a successful life concluded by a death not premature, which is an ornament to Nature. What if we were to mature as perfectly, root and branch, glowing in the midst of our decay, like the poke!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Successful, Maturity, Roots

  4 Copy quote

• The important thing is that all stages from adolescent to mature man, work is done to spread the sporting spirit.

  Pierre de Coubertin

  Men, Important, Done

  15 Copy quote

• The league, I think, is doing well. It's growing, it's maturing, and it's becoming a better league. 
  (on Major League Soccer)

  Cobi Jones

  Soccer, Thinking, Usa

  6 Copy quote

• I don't know if this is true of everyone, but I have this relationship with my parents where, despite however mature or articulate or grown-up I think I've become, as soon as I go home, I turn into this petulant 13-year-old, especially with the tone of my voice.

  Jenna Fischer

  Home, Thinking, Years

  "Jenna Fischer Talks A LITTLE HELP and THE OFFICE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 15, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Obviously, Turkey is not a typical authoritarian regime, and obviously it's very important that there are free elections. But it's also obvious that this is not a liberal, mature democracy. This is why I call Turkey a wobbly democracy. At any time, it can tip over and fall down.

  Elif Safak

  Fall, Turkeys, Democracy

  Source: www.spiegel.de

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Guinevere has been done quite a few times, especially as a mature young woman, who either is the damsel in distress or the warrior, strong-willed woman. Chris wanted a variety of things in this Guinevere. He predominately wanted her to be real and natural, and make mistakes and be passionate, and be the feisty young girl, but then also completely naive, innocent and ignorant, at the same time.

  Tamsin Egerton

  Girl, Strong, Real

  Source: collider.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's always my goal to be more mature-sounding, more convincing, but also more experimental, and more challenging for myself. If it's not a little bit harder every time I make a new track, then I'm being lazy.

  Lotic

  Goal, Track, Challenges

  Source: thequietus.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am a complete, mature, self-sufficient being.

  Frederick Winslow Taylor

  Self, Self Sufficient, Sufficient

  21 Copy quote

• Responsible persons are mature people who have taken charge of themselves and their conduct, who own their actions and own up to them--who answer for them.

  William Bennett

  Taken, Responsibility, People

  William J. Bennett (1993). “The Book of Virtues: A Treasury of Great Moral Stories”, Simon and Schuster

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think we as believers can be secure in our relationship with Christ. I'm not saying that sin isn't sin. I'm not saying that people should live in unrepentant sin. I'm not saying that that's a mark of a mature believer at all. Certainly if someone looks at my life, they will see that I have surrendered my heart, my life to Jesus Christ. I'll be very glad to tell them what my faults and my weaknesses are and the areas that I pray about in my life every day.

  Alan Chambers

  Jesus, Heart, Thinking

  Source: www.christianpost.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think that's really where we need to be more consistent as believers. Exodus will do that for people who come to us for help. But we will encourage the church to do that in general for anyone and everyone who's seeking to be a mature believer in Christ.

  Alan Chambers

  Thinking, People, Church

  Source: www.christianpost.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• To partly remain a child: that is to be really mature.

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko

  Children

  15 Copy quote

• As I continue to mature and navigate the world, there are so many myths that are dispelled for me.

  Tim Gunn

  World, Myth, Navigate

  "Tim Gunn on interviewing Dolly Parton and going to Woodstock in penny loafers". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. September 14, 2016.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's always interesting to me to see people projecting things, like people would say, "This record is much more mature than your other record" and I would think, "Well, this record has more songs from when I was 18 on it than the other one."

  Regina Spektor

  Song, Thinking, People

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source