Quotes About Maturity

I was once a fairly angry person.

I hope we've lightened up over the years. We're fairly comfortable where we are, living-wise, and we're excited, honestly, just to still be around. I think we're less earnest than we were.

I think part of being an adult is leaving the fairytale behind.

How can you sing a line like, 'I've fallen out of love' when you're 18? You need to experience something of life before you can sing it.

When you're 16 you write about different things to when you're 21 and have fallen out of love and been on the road for six years and have a house.

I'm personally in a different stage of my career than I was at the beginning. I was young and tried to run a lot and fight for things. Now it falls naturally. That's something you get with experience.

Like a child star whose fame fades as the years advance, many once-innovative companies become less so as they mature.

I guess it is ironical that I have a chance to say to Jesse Jackson, 'You need to be mature. You need to be positive. You need to be bigger than the folks who are trying to tear you down.'

Compton rapper Kendrick Lamar sounds decades older than he is, and it's not necessarily the wear and tear that comes from a rough life; instead, his world-weariness seems to result from years of soul-searching.

I have that look like I'm going to tear your head off. As a younger guy, I think I had that look even more and had a reputation for being in your face a lot, but as I've gotten older I think I've filtered some of that out.

Younger kids will sometimes tease me, and that bothers me a little, but eventually I don't care.

Everybody either wanted to take care of me or push me around, you know? I was teased a lot, sure I was, of course. Fourth grade, fifth grade, sixth grade, everybody was taking their spurts except me. I was not growing up.

Once you graduate from the Under-19 level, no one really gives you technical advice. It is all about making mental adjustments.

Having recognition is not a sin, growing up is no sin, be star is not a sin, have technical skills is not a sin. To evolve in what is wrong is also a process of maturing.

Living by yourself, technically by yourself, at the age of 16 is not easy to do.

Each kid has a different level of expertise and some of them are very raw and inexperienced and some are incredibly mature and experienced. So you just have to go with what they are rather than have some abstract technique that you're going to try to apply to them.

As I mature as a chef, I no longer aim to pack multiple techniques and ingredients into a single dish. Realizing that restraint is more difficult, I find it often renders incredibly beautiful results.

You've got to grow up sometime.

Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.

Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.

A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.

I don't want to be a 'teen star' because so many people don't ever grow out of that.

Certain elements of teen life that, 10 years ago, were very important to me still, are becoming less so as I get older. I mean, I've kinda gotten over, I guess I'm saying, the fact that I had trouble getting a date for the prom.

Can you imagine peaking as a teen? I think if you peak in high school, there's a problem. That's what my sister always said: 'Don't worry, you'll peak later.'