Maturity Quotes - Page 17

• And that is also what the movie's about, going beyond success, what is success 'cause I think success is misperceived as just a cake and it isn't. There is many things inside that success. There's a maturity and a heartbreak and sadness and broken glass.

  David O. Russell

  Sadness, Thinking, Glasses

  "How Director David O. Russell Discovered 'Joy'". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. December 26, 2015.

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• The essential discovery of maturity has little if anything to do with information about the names, the locations, and the sequence of facts; it is the acquiring of a different sense of life, a different kind of intuition about the nature of things.

  Walter Lippmann

  Discovery, Names, Intuition

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.154, Harvard University Press

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• The shift from the perception of the child as innocent to the perception of the child as competent has greatly increased the demands on contemporary children for maturity, for participating in competitive sports, for early academic achievement, and for protecting themselves against adults who might do them harm. While children might be able to cope with any one of those demands taken singly, taken together they often exceed children's adaptive capacity.

  David Elkind

  Sports, Children, Taken

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• Sigmund Freud was once asked to describe the characteristics of maturity, and he replied: lieben un arbeiten ("loving and working"). The mature adult is one who can love and allow himself or herself to be loved and who can work productively, meaningfully, and with satisfaction.

  David Elkind

  Love, Adults, Satisfaction

  David Elkind (2009). “The Hurried Child, 25th anniversary edition”, p.19, Da Capo Press

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• No member of the animal kingdom nurses past maturity, no member of the animal kingdom ever did a thing to me. Its why I don't eat red meat or white fish, don't give me no blue cheese. Were all members of the animal kingdom, leave your brothers and sisters in the sea.

  Prince

  Brother, Animal, Past

  Song: Animal Kingdom, Album: The Truth

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• For nearly three decades there has been, by and large, peace and tranquility on the India-China border. Not a single bullet has been fired for over a quarter-century. Both countries are showing great maturity and a commitment to economic cooperation.

  Narendra Modi

  Country, Commitment, India

  "Exclusive Interview With Narendra Modi: 'We Are Natural Allies'". Interview with Nancy Gibbs, Zoher Abdoolcarim, Nikhil Kumar, time.com. May 7, 2015.

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• Request an apology when you believe you deserve one, but don't get in a tug of war about it. Instead, be a role model and tender a genuine apology yourself when an apology is due. Your willingness to apologize can be contagious and models maturity for your partner. Also, your non-apologizing partner may use a nonverbal way to reconnect after a fight, defuse the tension, or show you he's in a new place and wants to repair a disconnection. Accept the olive branch however it's offered.

  Harriet Lerner

  War, Believe, Apology

  "Waiting For An Apology? Don’t Hold Your Breath" by Harriet Lerner, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2012.

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• We buy expecting to hold a bond to maturity and a stock forever.

  Seth Klarman

  Forever, Expecting

  "Jason Zweig Interviews Seth Klarman At CFA Institute Annual Conference". Interview with Jason Zweig, www.gurufocus.com. July 15, 2010.

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• Happy is that mother whose ability to help her children continues on from babyhood and manhood into maturity. Blessed is the son who need not leave his mother at the threshold of the world's activities, but may always and everywhere have her blessing and her help. Thrice blessed are the son and the mother between whom there exists an association not only physical and affectional, but spiritual and intellectual, and broad and wise as is the scope of each being.

  Lydia Hoyt Farmer

  Wise, Spiritual, Mother

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• Like to have a catalyst - reduces dependence on the market: Distressed debt inherently has a catalyst - maturity.

  Seth Klarman

  Debt, Catalyst, Dependence

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• Adolescence has been recognised as a stage of human development since medieval times--long, long before the industrial revolution--and, as it is now, has long been seen as a phase which centers on the fusion of sexual and social maturity. Indeed, adolescence as a concept has as long a history as that of puberty, which is sometimes considered more concrete, and hence much easier to name and to recognize.

  Terri E Apter

  Names, Long, Fusion

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• A strong sense of humor, a really awesome personality, and maturity is also really important in a boyfriend. I tend to only be attracted to older guys for that reason. I just love guys who have a really strong sense of who they are.

  Elizabeth Gillies

  Strong, Guy, Personality

  "Five Questions with Victorious star Elizabeth Gillies". Interview with Lauren Brown, www.seventeen.com. April 21, 2010.

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• The thoughtful believer recalls God's faithfulness in the past when confronted by any new threat. Part of spiritual maturity is strong sense of one's own history.

  Max Anders

  Spiritual, Strong, Thoughtful

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• Psychedelic experiences are beyond the reach of cultural manipulation, and discovering this and exploring it is somehow the frontier of maturity. Culture is a form of enforced infantilism. It's the last nursery, and most people never leave it.

  Terence McKenna

  People, Lasts, Manipulation

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• Only with maturity did I come to appreciate my own Chinese roots: not just the food and the ancient history, but also the philosophy of child-rearing and the respect for education and knowledge.

  Tess Gerritsen

  Children, Philosophy, Roots

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• Youth has its romance, and maturity its wisdom, as morning and spring have their freshness, noon and summer their power, night and winter their repose. Each attribute is good in its own season.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Summer, Morning, Spring

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• I was 35 when I first hit with Star Wars. I had some degree of maturity and some degree of experience, yet physically I still looked young. That had been an impediment early on in my career, but then it turned out to be an advantage.

  Harrison Ford

  Stars, War, Careers

  "Star Wars Archive: Harrison Ford, Solo Artist". Interview with William Thomas, www.empireonline.com. June, 2002.

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• The glamour
  Of childish days is upon me, my manhood is cast
  Down in the flood of remembrance.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Music, Remembrance, Childhood

  'Piano' (1918)

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• The troubles of the 20th century are not unlike those of adolescence -- rapid growth beyond the ability of organizations to manage, uncontrollable emotion, and a desperate search for identity. Out of adolescence, however, comes maturity in which physical growth with all its attendant difficulties comes to an end, but in which growth continues in knowledge, in spirit, in community, and in love; it is to this that we look forward as a human race. This goal, once seen with our eyes, will draw our faltering feet toward it.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Eye, Feet, Race

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• From the accounts of those who have had glimpses of Heaven in visions and revelations, it seems that we do mature somewhat in Heaven. Those who arrive in their youth grow to maturity, while older people appear more middle-aged, in the prime of life.

  David Berg

  People, Heaven, Vision

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• Longing for the ideal while criticizing the real is evidence of immaturity. On the other hand, settling for the real without striving for the ideal is complacency. Maturity is living with the tension.

  Rick Warren

  Real, Hands, Complacency

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• Strategic planning for projects management using a project management maturity model

  Harold Kerzner

  Planning, Management, Projects

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• And only the very courageous will be able to keep alive the spirit of individualism and dissent which gave birth to this nation, nourished it as an infant, and carried it through its severest tests upon the attainment of its maturity.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Alive, Tests

  John F. Kennedy (1964). “Profiles In Courage”

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• You know...it's a hard age. Kids are in that stage where they're beginning to understand the world of adults, without having the maturity of adults to deal with everything going on around them.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Kids, Age, Adults

  Nicholas Sparks (2010). “The Lucky One”, p.34, Hachette UK

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• She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.

  Oscar Wilde

  Fashion, Night, Clothes

  1895 Lord Goring. An Ideal Husband, act 2.

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