Maturity Process Quotes

We do not mature through age. We mature in awareness.

Maturity does not always come with age; sometimes age comes alone.

A man's real education begins after he has left school. True education is gained through the discipline of life.

I was 19 when I recorded my first album, and I've been exposed to many things during these last few years; all the baby fat is gone.

The child who would be an adult must give up any lingering childlike sense of parental power, either the magical ability to solveyour problems for you or the dreaded ability to make you turn back into a child. When you are no longer hiding from your parents, or clinging to them, and can accept them as fellow human beings, then they may do the same for you.

Even youngish men can acquire wisdom as time goes by.

What I always say is that young people need older people to develop their game, grow as people, and understand what Real means.

There are still so many issues around young players, and we need to find the right way for them. What is really important? What does he need for his self-belief? For his development?

I think all coaches look at it as a major part of our job: to build young men, not just ball players. To put the right things in front of them, and help them mature as men, not just as players.

Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they're 21 years old.

Everybody thinks you reach a certain age and you're a grownup, but it's not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak.

Age, habits of business and experience have modified many characters.

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

You must remember that anyone under 30 - especially a ballplayer - is an adolescent. I never got close to being an adult until I was 32. Even though I was married and had a son at 20, I was a kid at 32, living at home with my parents. Sure, I was a manager then. That doesn't mean you're grown up.

Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.

...therefore all childish fear must be put away.

People who hadn't suffered a loss yet struck me as not quite grown up.

I am my own worst critic, and I look at 'Death Sentence' now, and I go, 'Oh wow, I have really come a long way.' In terms of a filmmaker, I feel like my filmmaking language has really matured.

I had to learn how to function as a human being. And I really enjoyed that process.

I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

That was something I probably had to go through, a learning curve in terms of trying to develop into the captain I want to be.

I wrote my first album almost as an entitled child. 'Taxidermy' is written by a much more precarious, untrusting adult.

It's always good to have friends, but it's really about family. When you're younger, that isn't always clear. With friends it's about going out and kicking it. You learn that's not where it ends up.

I'm different now than I was when I was 20 years old.

With the exception of the few cases to be discussed in the next chapter, adolescence represented no period of crisis or stress, but was instead an orderly developing of a set of slowly maturing interests and activities.