Bobby Fischer Quotes

I kind of grew up and started maturing.

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

Kids don't shuffle along in unison on the road to maturity. They slouch toward adulthood at an uneven, highly individual pace.

Life is about growing and improving and getting better.

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 think I've been lucky enough to have had an extended adolescence. I'm a lot like I was when I was 15.

I've grown so much, not just as an actor, but as a human being.

A certain point came when I wanted to document growing-up adventures.

I was a late bloomer in a lot of areas in life.

I feel like at 18, you're half of someone else, as opposed to all of yourself. You're still figuring yourself out.

By the time I was, you know, 16 years old, I had done a lot of growing up.

We all have to go through our own experiences of growing up.

Obviously when you challenge yourself you learn a lot about yourself, and ultimately you're going to get better in whatever field.

There's so many great coming-of-age movies to steal from, and I feel like I just tried to steal from them all equally.

I don't think naturally I tend toward anything that's really distinctly branded as adult. I feel like I sort of write for myself as I would've been at 12 or 13 years old.

For me, I've gotten better at that since I've gotten older. I never was good at that when I was younger.

It's difficult for people to come to the understanding that only a small minority of people ever really get the word about life, about living abundantly and successfully. Success in the important departments of life seldom comes naturally, no more naturally than success at anything - a musical instrument, sports, fly-fishing , tennis, golf, business, marriage, parenthood. But for some reason most people wait passively for success to come to them ..., living as other people are living in the unspoken, tacit assumption that other people know how to live successfully.

At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.

When we're able to put most of our energy into developing our natural talents, extraordinary room for growth exists

My father Big Max told me many years ago that 'anything you are good at will contribute to your happiness'. Great advice.

Growing up is hard, love. Otherwise everyone would do it.

I've apparently been the victim of growing up, which apparently happens to all of us at one point or another. It's been going on for quite some time now, without me knowing it. I've found that growing up can mean a lot of things. For me, it doesn't mean I should become somebody completely new and stop loving the things I used to love. It means I've just added more things to my list.

I have a lot of growing up to do. I realized that the other day inside my fort.

Men are like wine,--not good before the lees of clownishness be settled.

Skills vary with the man. We must tread a straight path and strive by that which is born in us.