Maturity Quotes - Page 13

• Radio wasn't outside our lives. It coincided with and helped to shape our childhood and adolescence. As we slogged toward maturity, it also grew up and turned into television, leaving behind, like dead skin, transistorized talk-radio and nonstop music. . . .

  Vincent Canby

  Life, Childhood, Leaving

  Vincent Canby, Janet Maslin (1999). “The New York Times Guide to the Best 1000 Movies Ever Made”, Three Rivers Press

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• For people of different faiths to coexist, it's going to take maturity, wisdom, and patience. All of which come, eventually, with tolerance. And it's a process of time.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  People, Tolerance, Different

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• The conversation of most middle-class Americans, we are told, revolves around consumption: what to buy, what was just bought, where to eat, the price of the neighbor's house, what's on sale this week, our clothes or someone else's, the best car on the market this year, where to spend a vacation. Apparently we can't stop eating, shopping, or consuming. Success is measured not in terms of love, wisdom, and maturity but by the size of one's pile of possessions.

  Brennan Manning

  Vacation, Years, Class

  Brennan Manning (2011). “The Signature of Jesus”, p.45, Multnomah

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• People say, "Age is just a number." A lot of times it's not just a number. It's actually a real and true sign of someone's maturity. But in this case, she's fantastic.

  Henry Cavill

  Real, Numbers, People

  "Henry Cavill Often Wonders Why the F*ck He's Shirtless". Interview with Mickey Rapkin, www.elle.com. February 18, 2016.

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• Indeed, the FHA was born out of the Great Depression, which was also caused in significant part by a foreclosure crisis. Mortgages in the early 1930s were mostly three- to five-year 'bullet' loans, which did not amortize and were due in full at maturity.

  Mark Zandi

  Years, Three, Bullets

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• Normal children of both sexes and all cultures will follow a more or less standard and universal developmental pattern and timetable, and reach approximately the same level of development at maturity. While a particular culture's need and expectations and teaching will shape the course of development and affect adult capabilities to some degree, normal individuals, whatever their native culture, if transplanted and taught, could learn to meet the normal demands of their adapted cultures.

  Stella Chess

  Sex, Children, Teaching

  Stella Chess, Jane Whitbread (1978). “Daughters: from infancy to independence”

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• I think America has more than enough maturity and intelligence to start exercising its world leadership responsibly.

  Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner

  Exercise, Thinking, America

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• It is no longer enough to play very well. You need to be able to give an answer at all times and everywhere. You cannot hide. This has something to do with maturity, and that is something you only acquire over the years.

  Rafael Nadal

  Play, Years, Giving

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• We are capable of suffering with our world, and that is the true meaning of compassion. It enables us to recognize our profound interconnectedness with all beings. Don't ever apologize for crying for the trees burning in the Amazon or over the waters polluted from mines in the Rockies. Don't apologize for the sorrow, grief, and rage you feel. It is a measure of your humanity and your maturity. It is a measure of your open heart, and as your heart breaks open there will be room for the world to heal. That is what is happening as we see people honestly confronting the sorrows of our time.

  Joanna Macy

  Grief, Heart, Compassion

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• My co-pastor is Randy Frazee. Randy is the brightest bulb in this box. He really has a feeling for what a church needs in terms of maturity, so I listen to him.

  Max Lucado

  Feelings, Church, Needs

  Source: www.sermoncentral.com

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• Once a man is on hand, a woman tends to stop believing in her own beliefs

  Colette Dowling

  Believe, Men, Hands

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• The great American denial riff is that you can do whatever you like and you always triumph at the end. The world is saying no, you can do what you like, but there are consequences. And maturity is to be able to turn to the consequences and accept them.

  George Saunders

  Triumph, Denial, World

  Interview with George Saunders, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 27, 2016.

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• Hold the period of youth sacred to education, and the period of maturity, when the physical forces begin to flag, equally sacred to ease and agreeable relaxation.

  Edward Bellamy

  Relaxation, Flags, Ease

  Edward Bellamy (2000). “Looking Backward: From 2000 to 1887”, p.41, Applewood Books

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• My poetry doesn't change from place to place - it changes with the years. It's very important to be one's age. You get ideas you have to turn down - 'I'm sorry, no longer'; 'I'm sorry, not yet.

  W. H. Auden

  Sorry, Years, Ideas

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• My biggest achievement - besides being drafted into the NBA - was becoming a father. Being a father has made me experience things that have contributed to my maturity and personal growth.

  Dwyane Wade

  Father, Nba, Achievement

  Source: mochamanstyle.com

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• When what has been created in time according to the temporal order has reached maturity, it ceases from natural growth. But when what has been brought about by the knowledge of God through the practice of the virtues has reached maturity, it starts to grow anew. For the end of one stage constitutes the starting point of the next.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Order, Practice

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• Maturity is the ability to live in someone else's world.

  Oren Arnold

  World, Ability

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• Adolescents need to be reassured that nothing-neither their growing maturity, their moods, their misbehavior, nor your anger at something they have done-can shake your basic commitment to them.

  Laurence Steinberg

  Anger, Commitment, Needs

  Laurence Steinberg (2011). “You and Your Adolescent, New and Revised edition: The Essential Guide for Ages 10-25”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• I would like to thank the Cypriot people for their maturity and collectedness shown in their interactions with the Cypriot Banks.

  Nicos Anastasiades

  People, Cypriots, Interaction

  Twitter post from Mar 28, 2013

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• Conscious parenting is a new paradign shift in the way we look at our roles as parents. It's turning the spot light away from fixing the child and managing the child, obsession with all things that have to do with the child and the child centric approach and really focusing on the evolution of the parent. It about fully understanding that unless the parent has raised themselves to a certain level of emotional integration and maturity, they will really not be able to do true service to the child's spirit.

  Shefali Tsabary

  Children, Emotional, Light

  Source: www.chicagonow.com

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• To acknowledge, to accept, and to forgive one's parents - both what they gave and what they did not give, both one's dependence upon them and one's independence of them - is the ultimate hallmark of maturity: a perception as valid for institutions as for individuals.

  Ernest Kurtz

  Inspirational, Giving, Parent

  Ernest Kurtz (2010). “Not God: A History of Alcoholics Anonymous”, p.131, Hazelden Publishing

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• I have met a lot of guys in their 40s who have the maturity of a 15 - year-old and men in their 20s who have older sensibilities. They just need to live in their own apartment. That's kind of a deal breaker.

  Sutton Foster

  Men, Years, Guy

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Being a head designer or art director or just even a designer, you need a certain level of experience and maturity.

  Christophe Lemaire

  Art, Directors, Needs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Those of us who have come to years of discretion and more, must often take to retrospect, and seek to appraise the outcome of our lives.

  Learned Hand

  Years, Outcomes, Retrospect

  Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”

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• Perhaps people don't come into their true maturity until a parent dies.

  Robert Hunter

  People, Parent

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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