Maturity Quotes - Page 25

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

  Mark Batterson

  Spiritual, Self, Growing

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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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• 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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• I think some people in their 20s really get it, that acting is about creativity and the work. They get their maturity from their work.

  Jane Badler

  Creativity, Thinking, People

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• It's essential to growth. It's essential to maturity. It's essential for equipping you, training you, so that you might be an available, clean, sharp instrument in His hands to accomplish His purposes.

  Howard G. Hendricks

  Hands, Growth, Training

  Howard G. Hendricks, William D. Hendricks (2007). “Living By the Book: The Art and Science of Reading the Bible”, p.17, Moody Publishers

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• If men had more up top we'd need less up front

  Jaci Stephen

  Men, Needs, Ifs

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• … 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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• 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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• Vibrato is the badge of tonal maturity.

  Gerald Fischbach

  Badges

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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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• Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Powerful, Empires, Break

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• Oh maturity's a wrapped up package deal so it seems
  And ditching teenage fantasy means ditching all your dreams
  All your friends and peers and family solemnly tell you you will
  Have to grow up be an adult yeah be bored and unfulfilled
  Oh when no ones yet explained to me exactly what's so great
  About slaving 50 years away on something that you hate, about meekly shuffling down the path of mediocrity
  Well if that's your road then take it but it's not the road for me.

  Frank Turner

  Dream, Growing Up, Teenage

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• When we are very young, we tend to regard the ability to use a colon much as a budding pianist regards the ability to play with crossed hands: many of us, when we are older, regard it as a proof of literary skill, maturity, even of sophistication; and many; whether young, not so young, or old, employ it gauchely, haphazardly, or at best inconsistently.

  Eric Partridge

  Writing, Hands, Play

  Eric Partridge (2003). “You Have a Point There: A Guide to Punctuation and Its Allies”, p.54, Routledge

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• Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.

  Bill Vaughan

  Psychological, Permission, Adolescence

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• Every new experience brings its own maturity and a greater clarity of vision.

  Indira Gandhi

  New Experiences, Vision, Clarity

  Indira Gandhi, Dorothy Norman (1985). “Indira Gandhi, letters to an American friend 1950-1984”, Harcourt

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• The true test of maturity is not how old a person is but how he reacts to awakening in the mid-town area in his shorts.

  Woody Allen

  Awakening, Tests, Towns

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

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• Maturity is the ability to do a job whether you're supervised or not; finish a job once it's started; carry money without spending it; and the ability to bear an injustice without wanting to get even.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Jobs, Bears, Injustice

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• No one will live all his life in the world into which he was born and no one will die in the world in which he worked in his maturity.

  Margaret Mead

  Change, World, Born

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• Happily there exists more than one kind of beauty. There is the beauty of infancy, the beauty of youth, the beauty of maturity, and, believe me, ladies and gentlemen, the beauty of age.

  George Augustus Henry Sala

  Believe, Gentleman, Age

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• Smoking is, as far as I'm concerned, the entire point of being an adult.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Smoking, Adults, Concerned

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• 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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