Rob Thurman Quotes

As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.

You accumulate emotional wisdom as you get older. You know, when you're 25, you go on blind dates with people that, when you're 50, you know to stay away from.

I'm very similar to the way I was when I was 5.

At 20 years old, I was better at playing with toys than I was as a kid.

I've definitely grown up, but I'm the same Sadie now that I would have been, even if I wasn't on 'Stranger Things.'

You judge someone from the day you meet them.

As a kid, you don't know what's going on at the time. But once you get older, you start to realize it.

Growing up I was a different person than I am now. Now I'm the quiet, laid-back one, but I used to be the wild one in the group. I was like the bully.

Not saying I was a bad kid, but I had a lot to learn. You've just got to not be impulsive.

You can't just constantly judge a situation or a person because of what you're used to or how they look. They might turn out to be this sweet man who asks you what your dreams are. You know?

Everybody judges a book by its cover. I can look at 50 books and say every one of those books is bad. Then you read one, and you can say, 'This book is amazing.' That's the same with meeting people.

When you are a child, your father is God to you. Then, as you grow up, you have different gods. You change. But does it really matter? All of the roads lead to the same place, and if you are going in the right direction, it doesn't matter what you are taking - a jet plane or a cart pulled by a donkey.

Everybody has said or done the wrong thing and regretted it later, but at the time, you really couldn't help it! As you get older, you're more guarded, but that's a really tough process of learning, to be brutally honest, about some things and keeping your mouth shut about others.

We all make snap judgments on small amounts of information. We do it all the time with online dating, deciding whether to spend time someone on the basis of a short blurb and three pics.

Even in real life, at least I have that very strong sense of timing to do things when they are meant to be done. Like when to stop colouring your hair, when to do whatever, and to live by it too.

I think that the child in me is ever dominant, but that doesn't make me less of a woman.

I tend to make snap judgements about people.

Listen to your gut. Are decisions more expansive or narrowing?

I judge by appearances. People tell me I shouldn't.

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself. When you are a child your vessel is not yet full;so you care for nothing but your own affairs. When you grow up, your vessel overflows; and you are a politician, a philosopher, or an explorer and adventurer. In old age the vessel dries up: there is no overflow: you are a child again.

though the outside of human life changes much, the inside changes little, and the lesson-book we cannot graduate from is human experience.

As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.

There are moments, particularly in times of stress, when haste does not make waste, when our snap judgments and first impressions can offer a much better means of making sense of the world.

There's a ton of truth in Flannery O'Connor's notion that "Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days."