Quotes About Maturity

21. 12. 2022. Anselm Grun: Živi i rasti 56 str.

A child is too old to breast-feed when he can unhook mommy's bra with one hand.

He was a just a boy. They all were. Even the largest of them.

We all grew up before we were grown up.

We all grew up before we we're grown up.

Smart beyond your years. There are places for a boy like you.

I've flung a fly myself, he continues. I'm still learning it. I suppose we're all still learning. You learn and learn and then you die and you haven't learned half of it.

These days we have no true childhood, only a diseased precocity, introducing children to things that any decent man of Whittier's day, or of Armstrong's, would have considered unutterably vile. Therefore we have no true adulthood either, only a prolonged infantility, a curdled adolescence followed by old age and death.

Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus, for example, had been about twenty-nine

Gaius was now thirteen years old and well able to understand the seriousness of the situation.

A failure is not one who fails, a failure is one who blames others for their own failure.

You're never too young to die.

Believe me, It would be better if we didn't meet again. Go back to school. Go back to your life. And next time they ask you, say no. Killing is for grown-ups and you're still a child.

We are professionals, we have to set the example and not provoke anyone.

As the brain matures, one thing that happens is the pruning of the synapses. Synaptic pruning does not occur willy-nilly; it depends largely on how any one brain pathway is used.

I think that there's certain music that instead of saying a lot of different things that are on my psyche, I just say, 'I've aged out.' Because that is the best way of putting it, because a lot of things I simply don't understand and will not understand and can't see any intrinsic value in.

I think the older I get, the more psycho I get.

I think the heartbreak of September 11 - America's grief not only over the loss of life but also the loss of our own innocence - has expanded us as people because it has tenderized our hearts. On a psychological level, the American people have matured as a result of that awful day.

I tell people not to write too soon about their lives. Writing about yourself too young is loaded with psychological complexities.

As our knees and hips and eyesight deteriorate, we become more dependable, less impulsive, kinder, and less moody. Psychologists call this the maturity principle. My own life experience fits this principle to a T.

We don't need a psychologist with the Dutch team; we are grown-up men. The ones who have a problem with other players or the manager should tell them face-to-face. That is the only psychology we need.

I'd had to grow up pretty quickly, and going back to drama school gave me a chance to be with people my own age and do normal things, like going to a pub on a Friday night and just hanging out.

Some friends think I'm dull now. But I think it's great that I'm no longer trying to make everyone laugh in the pub.

I usually say I left puberty at 58.