George Bernard Shaw Quotes

We do not change as we grow up. The difference between the child and the adult is that the former doesn't know who he is and the latter does.

Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they're 21 years old.

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

Little kids grow up discovering the world that's shown to them and then when you become a teenager, it kind of shrinks a little bit. I think when you get past that point, one of the important things is that you see there is more to the world than yourself.

I'm one of those people that makes a better adult than I did a kid.

So many things come with your maturation process. I changed throughout my time with WWE from a kid in his 20s into a man.

I think as you get older, you find out more and more about yourself and what you like and what you don't like.

What are you, child, that you need time to learn about yourself?

There is nothing else anything like so interesting to ourselves as ourselves.

I am convinced that most people do not grow up...We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I think what we do is mostly grow old. We carry accumulation of years in our bodies, and on our faces, but generally our real selves, the children inside, are innocent and shy as magnolias.

You don't find out who you are unless you work at it.

I've done a lot of growing up since the age of 16 and I really wanted that to be reflected in my music.

You grow and you change, or at least you think you do, but you're kind of the same.

As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.

I'm not the angry, rebellious child that I was. You can remain a child for a long time. I certainly did. I was a slow learner.

You're seeing me develop, not only as a filmmaker if you've seen my earlier films, but you're seeing me kind of learn how to be a human, how my philosophy has evolved.

In certain ways, I'm not very different than I was when I was a teenager.

I'm not changing to the point where suddenly I wear floor-length skirts and start playing the violin; I'm just growing up a little bit, I guess.

I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that you really must make the self.

I have a lot of growing up to do, or a lot of growing down. I think that's probably more appropriate.

I prefer stories about people who are, in a sense, trying to find better versions of themselves.

Like everybody, I've had a lot of pain in my life and I'm a work in progress. You must have a true desire to see the world from a different point of view, and that comes with growing up.

My cares come from a very selfish place 'cause in reality I'm young, and I haven't had the experience to be mature yet.

You're definitely a different person at different stages in your life.

Maybe in my 20s I was a little more lively. But I'm done with that.