James Lafferty Quotes

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.

I think the teenage sides of myself have informed my adult self.

I suspect I was not the first 21-year-old who thought he knew more than he did. And one of the virtues of age, one of the virtues of getting married and becoming a father, is it often leads one to take a more measured approach to life.

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

I'm 36 years old, and I'm growing up. Little by little.

It was not until my 20s that I began to creep toward maturity.

I played with Eddy Curry twice and in New York, the second time, he asked, 'Who are you?' My first to fourth year I was a different person. I started thinking big picture, that maybe I don't have all the answers.

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

Hargrave made me mature. It made me grow up, and I needed that.

With time, you do get mature.

As I grow older, I like to think I'm getting a little bit more mature.

....You should keep dental floss on you at all times; when your eyesight goes, quit driving; don't keep too many secrets, eventually they'll eat away at you. But the most valuable lesson he taught me was this: Every day we get older, and some of us get wiser, but there's no end to our evolution. We are all a mess of contradictions; some of our traits work for us, some against us. And this is what I figured out on my own: Over the course of a lifetime, people change, but not as much as you'd think. Nobody really grows up.

I was a 'young adult' when I wrote 'The Outsiders,' although it was not a genre at the time. It's an interesting time of life to write about, when your ideals get slammed up against reality, and you must compromise.

Linking up the things you were with the things you become is what growing up is.

My overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be.

I don't think men figure out what they're really about until they're 25. That's when they start to feel like themselves.

The romantic idealism of my youth has been replaced with realism and hard work at what I love.

Don't go through life, grow through life.

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

As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.

I'm always changing. I still have the same morals and values and foundation of who I was, growing up in Jacksonville, FL, but I'm such a different person from who I was when I was 17. You live and you learn and you grow.

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.

You see things differently at 40 than you do at 31. Especially if you got to 40 the way I did.

At 21, there's lots more room there, plenty of things to improve on as you get older.