Quotes About Maturity

A los veinte años yo calculaba, medía, pesaba y planificaba. Casi cuarenta después, era capaz de apretarme la nariz y tirarme a la pileta sin haber averiguado antes si había agua o no. Pero con los ojos abiertos. Me gustaba más a mí misma ahora que a los veinte años. Una de dos, o la experiencia me había dado lo que la sabiduría popular atribuye a la juventud, o la sabiduría popular es una mierda. Me incliné por la segunda posibilidad.

He knew it was too late to turn back and brusquely reminded himself he was no child, now, to be frightened of his own fancies.

But you are mine no longer. You are a man, with a man's concerns, and

He had left Marcia searching the Palace for Septimus, who appeared to have skipped an exam, much to Silas's admiration. At last his son was settling down and acting like a normal boy.

one always seemed to be getting too old for something.

If you're not getting happier as you get older, then you're fuckin' up

a lesson must be lived in order to be learned and the clarity to see and stop this now that is what i've earned

Is experience worth one year, multiplied by ten years, good?' He meant that if we could do the same thing repeatedly, for a long period of time, we don't necessarily become wiser at it or in general.

If she had had daughters, Beatrice reflected, what advice she would have given them! She would have told them that the time for display was limited, that the years would add weight, both physically and metaphorically, that a time would come when second thoughts were wiser than heedless impulses Ã¢â'¬Â¦ She would have urged them to enjoy men, as many men as possible, before they became aware, as she was now, of the neutered state that awaited them.

I don't think it's necessarily healthy to go into relationships as a needy person. Better to go in with a full deck.

Everybody's young to me, Hazel Marie," I said, feeling every year of my age.

Just because someone grows up shouldn't mean that the people who helped him get that way no longer counted.

In the old days she would have dug in her heels, but she was old and canny enough to realize there was no point starting battles you could never win.

Look at Julie Etchingham and Katie Derham, none of us are spring chickens frankly, I don't think people want to watch someone who's wet behind the ears, you have to look like you understand what you are reading about.

I was a bit of a late developer, and everyone was saying, 'Whatever you do, don't shave,' and I hadn't really started shaving. I remember rubbing the soot from a kettle on to my bumfluff to make it look more like I had a beard.

I think, as you get older, you reflect at the silliness of your youth and the stupidity of some of the decisions that were made, and the ego and whatnot, or whatever played into it.

To say I feel close or whatnot, I don't really know what that means, but I feel like my game and, you know, myself is slowly maturing.

I enjoy acting. It's not that I begin to think I'm getting better. I now fully know that I've made no improvement whatsoever since I was 20. I can live with it.

The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.

I'm learning not to hold on so tightly to my solitude. It's not an economical way to work. A driver would call it 'white-knuckling.' If you're holding on to the wheel so tightly, it's gonna lock up your driving. Releasing myself from trying to control everything has been part of growing up.

My dad couldn't change a wheel. But I bought my first car when I was 16.

America wasn't made on blame; it was made on responsibility. Take off the training wheels in life and decide to take responsibility for your actions.

Whenever I finish filming, it always feels like I'm going through puberty. I've realized that I've come to enjoy this, though it had brought me much pain at first.

Whenever I have experienced failure in my career, those experiences have made me more mature as a player.