Maturity Quotes - Page 15

• Rebel is just as bad a word as maturity.

  Sean Penn

  Rebel

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You don't date an annuity, you marry it. An annuity isn't a mutual fund that you buy today and sell tomorrow. Nor is it a certificate of deposit, ready for any new use at maturity. When you buy an annuity, you are making (or ought to be making) a 15- or 20-year commitment, at least.

  Jane Bryant Quinn

  Money, Commitment, Years

  Jane Bryant Quinn (2009). “Making the Most of Your Money Now: The Classic Bestseller Completely Revised for the New Economy”, p.1073, Simon and Schuster

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• Maturity is most rapid in the low latitudes, where pineapples and women most do thrive.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Pineapples, Lows, Rapids

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• Sitting at a candidate rally is similar to sitting in a ballyard. Both give you the opportunity to assess the technical metrics and reflect on the intangibles - what baseball calls "make up" and politics calls "character" - the leadership, talent and maturity to add value to a venture.

  Christine Pelosi

  Baseball, Character, Opportunity

  "Play Ball: 7 Lessons From Baseball for Politics" by Christine Pelosi, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 31, 2014.

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• You may occasionally be hurt by the sort of cavalier cruelty of commentary if you go into online forums, so there’s definitely a maturity about not seeking validation from everyone, every single time.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Hurt, Validation, May

  Interview with Charlie Day, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2014.

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• As I view it, in every family a record should be kept...that record should be the first stone, if you choose, in the family altar. It should be a book known and used in the family circle; and when the child reaches maturity and goes out to make another household, one of the first things that the young couple should take along should be the records of their families, to be extended by them as life goes on...each one of us carries, individually, the responsibility of record keeping, and we should assume it.

  John Andreas Widtsoe

  Children, Couple, Book

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• I realize that there are certain hardships that only females must endure, such as childbirth, waiting in lines for public-restroom stalls, and a crippling, psychotic obsession with shoe color. Also, females tend to reach emotional maturity very quickly, so that by age 7 they are no longer capable of seeing the humor in loud inadvertent public blasts of flatulence, whereas males can continue to derive vast enjoyment from this well into their 80s.

  Dave Barry

  Emotional, Shoes, Waiting In Line

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• Maturity is when all of your mirrors turn into windows.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Mirrors, Window, Turns

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• The loss of religious faith among the most civilized portion of the race is a step from childishness toward maturity.

  Charles Eliot Norton

  Religious, Loss, Race

  Charles Eliot Norton (1913). “Letters of Charles Eliot Norton”

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• Little Bobby Jones of Atlanta is really a fine player, and shows every indication of becoming a tremendous great one, once he is master of himself, which must come with maturity.

  A. W. Tillinghast

  Golf, Player, Atlanta

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• Eternal vigilance is only part of the price of freedom. The maturity to live with imperfections is another crucial part of the price of freedom.

  Thomas Sowell

  Imperfection, Vigilance, Price Of Freedom

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• The clergy profession is fundamentally self-defeating. Its stated purpose is to nurture spiritual maturity in the church - a valuable goal. In actuality, however; it accomplishes the opposite by nurturing a permanent dependence of the laity on the clergy. Clergy become to their congregations like parents whose children never grow up, like therapists whose clients never become healed, like teachers whose students never graduate.

  Christian Smith

  Spiritual, Teacher, Children

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• We can consider the process of healthy growth to be a never ending series of free choice situations, confronting each individual at every point throughout his life, in which he must choose between the delights of safety and growth, dependence and independence, regression and progression, immaturity and maturity.

  Abraham Maslow

  Safety, Choices, Healthy

  Abraham H. Maslow (2013). “Toward a Psychology of Being”, p.53, Simon and Schuster

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• My experience has nothing to do with creation, I don't think, even though maturity is helpful. In a creation process, there's an intuition that takes you and if it's nourished with awareness and experience, it's great.

  Juliette Binoche

  Thinking, Intuition, Helpful

  "Juliette Binoche Talks ‘Elles,’ Masturbation & her Upcoming Portrayal of Camille Claudel". Interview with Matt Mueller, www.indiewire.com. April 23, 2012.

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• I sometimes read that it's time for German democracy to finally grow up. I don't see it as a sign of maturity if we treat military missions as something normal.

  Guido Westerwelle

  Growing Up, Military, Democracy

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Maturity is the ability to relate appropriately to other realities than one's own.

  Goswami Kriyananda

  Reality, Ability, Relate

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• When will you disembarrass yourselves of the lymphatic ideology of that deplorable Ruskin, which I would like to cover with so much ridicule that you would never forget it? With his morbid dream of primitive and rustic life, with his nostalgia for Homeric cheeses and legendary wool-spinners, with his hatred for the machine, steam power, and electricity, that maniac of antique simplicity is like a man who, after having reached full physical maturity, still wants to sleep in his cradle and feed himself at the breast of his decrepit old nurse in order to recover his thoughtless infancy.

  Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

  Dream, Sleep, Men

  "Modernism and Its Margins: Reinscribing Cultural Modernity from Spain and Latin America" by Anthony L. Geist, Jose B. Monle-N, Taylor & Francis, (p. 57), 1999.

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• Critics are a kind of freebooters in the republic of letters--who, like deer, goats and divers other graminivorous animals, gain subsistence by gorging upon buds and leaves of the young shrubs of the forest, thereby robbing them of their verdure, and retarding their progress to maturity.

  Washington Irving

  Animal, Progress, Bud

  Washington Irving (1834). “The Complete Works: With a Memoir of the Author”, p.100

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• You must have a certain amount of maturity to be a poet. Seldom do sixteen-year-olds know themselves well enough.

  Erica Jong

  Years, Sixteen, Poet

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• I'm very clear about what I want to say. I have a great team and it's going well. I have a feeling of maturity.

  Christophe Lemaitre

  Team, Feelings, Want

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Adolescence is the period of the decisive last battle fought before maturity. The ego must achieve independence, the old emotional ties must be cast off, the new ones created.

  Helene Deutsch

  Emotional, Ties, Ego

  Helene Deutsch (1958). “The Psychology of Women”

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• The key to maturity is time and community. Discernment and godly wisdom develop in a community that spans generations. The church is called to be this place where the [God's] Spirit uses normal patterns and rhythms of the Christian life in a community, so that we may bear fruit like a well-watered tree. Despite common appearances, the church is the place where God's new creation is coming into existence and being sustained by the Spirit like a great vineyard.

  Michael Horton

  Christian, Godly, Keys

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• What is a great life but a youthful intention carried out in maturity?

  Alfred de Vigny

  Intention

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• I don't believe that there is a human creature in his senses, arrived to maturity, that at some time or other has not been carried away by this passion (sc. envy) in good earnest; yet I never met with any one who dared own he was guilty of it but in jest.

  Bernard de Mandeville

  Believe, Passion, Envy

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• Throughout the whole vegetable, sensible, and rational world, whatever makes progress towards maturity, as soon as it has passed that point, begins to verge towards decay.

  Robert Blair

  Vegetables, Progress, Decay

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