mature mindset Quotes

I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived. I believe that all the best faculties of a mature human being exist in the child. . . that one of the most deeply human, and humane, of these faculties is the power of imagination.

I'm an old soul. When I was a kid all the kids would be playing and I would be sitting on the steps with the teachers just watching.

If there is a defining characteristic of a man as opposed to a boy, maybe it's patience.

I always had an easier time with adults. Somehow, I was always old! I still feel old.

Maturity is a compound of wisdom, goodwill, resilience, and creativity.

Maturity comes not with age but with the acceptance of responsibility. You are only young once but immaturity can last a lifetime!

Superior people take both the credit and the blame for everything that happens to them.

With anything, you have to approach from an educational, mature standpoint.

When I was a child, I acted like child, but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves.

Maturity of mind is best shown in slow belief.

Mature workers are less impulsive, less reactive, more creative and more centered.

I traveled when I was super young, so my mindset was never like a typical 8-year-old.

I hated the company of other children. I wanted to be a grownup person, to be taken seriously. I hated the idea of childhood; I thought it was a moment of endless stupidity.

To become historically-minded is to be grown-up.

I've always been old at heart.