M. Scott Peck Quotes

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

'Fringe' was the first time I realized that I could ever man up in a character and make this transition from being a boy or a young man into actually being a man.

It's not a character flaw to become an adult.

The whole growing-up process seems to have eluded me.

When you're a kid, and you grow up, it takes some time for people to associate you with more things other than that initial thing.

It was strange doing that transition from teenager to more adult roles, but I think it just makes it more exciting.

There's a shift and a change in how we've matured to becoming adults. 'Elevator Girl' represents our maturity.

When I went to Spain, it was a risk because I was really young. But I quickly learned the game, and I grew as a result.

Well, wherever you go, whatever you do, you're still you. You can change your surroundings, start a new life, but you'll always fall into the same old patterns, make the same kind of friends, commit the same mistakes. The thing you need to change is yourself.

There is no miraculous change that takes place in a boy that makes him a man. He becomes a man by being a man.

I just changed as a person and have always been changing constantly from fifteen to twenty-three.

I am getting more mature and can handle the pressure better.

I think maybe we die every day. Maybe we're born new each dawn, a little changed, a little further on our own road. When enough days stand between you and the person you were, you're strangers. Maybe that's what growing up is. Maybe I have grown up.

Will you never grow up?" "I doubt it, and I certainly hope not.

There's much you can't change, but there's something important you can change: you.

I think the major problem in growing up is to become sophisticated without becoming cynical.

Midnight passes and I'm twenty-five days and a million years from becoming a man.

The ordinary focus on what they're getting. The extraordinary think about who they're becoming.

Growing up is a process that never ends. It isn't a point you attain so you can say, Hooray, I'm grown up. Some people never grow up. And nobody ever finishes growing. Or shouldn't. If you stop you might as well quit. What I have to tell you is that it never gets any easier. It goes right on being rough forever. But nothing that's easy is worth anything. You ought to have learned that by now. What happens as you keep on growing is that all of a sudden you realize that it's more exciting and beautiful than scary and awful.

Most men die many times in their lives. The man we become invariably slaughters the child we once were. His knowledge of the world murders the babe's innocence. from Time Untime by Sherrilyn Kenyon

I'm not the same girl I was five years ago. Hopefully, with the choices I'm making people will start to see that I'm not just little Gabriella.

I kind of grew up and started maturing.

Every man is the sum total of his reactions to experience. As your experiences differ and multiply, you become a different man, and hence your perspective changes. This goes on and on. Every reaction is a learning process; every significant experience alters your perspective.

To understand a new idea, break an old habit.

Growing up is important, and I've got to do that gracefully, but also keep myself at a good pace.