Quotes About Maturity

You're allowed to have gravitas when you've got the wrinkles to prove it, but not when you're attractive and younger - or, at least, you have to fight really hard to prove you're capable of productive thought.

The mind of a 19-year-old is very different from the mind of a 26-year-old. You grow. You get into better relationships. You experience more, meet more people, better people. But when you're in a dark hole at an earlier point in your life - you write about the mindset you're in at that moment.

Most of the songs that I write have nothing to do with the stuff that I used to sing about since I didn't write back then.

When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.

I've matured as a writer and human being. I've got some wisdom under my belt.

When I was 14 years old, I was talking about much more mature things because of the writers that I had at the time. My first album was tied into what the culture was at that moment, which was Jodeci, Al B. Sure, Puff, The Hitmen. I reaped the benefits of being part of Bad Boy's movement. That was my introduction.

If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes.

Even reading my first bad review was an awesome experience. It was cool because you make something and not everybody's going to like it. I felt like that kind of grew me up a little bit into a professional. I was a student filmmaker, and no one writes reviews about student films.

Eventually, I started writing down a bunch of titles that related to childhood themes and would pair it with an adult situation that either I was going through or someone else in my life was going through.

I can tell you that the book 'The Ugly Truth' is about puberty and all the awfulness that comes with that time in a person's life. It was definitely some different subject matter to be writing about, especially knowing some of my audience are second and third graders.

Every child makes its peace with abandonment. That's called growing up.

Not old enough to feel like an adult , really, but old enough to look like one, and to know the distinction between being carefree and careless.

We only have babies when we're young enough not to know how grim life turns out.

you'll understand when you're older. Or anyway not understanding will become second nature, and it won't matter.

A notion of character, not so much discredited as simply forgotten, once held that people only came into themselves partway through their lives.

But men don't dry up, Melena objected; they can father to the death. Ah, we're slow learners, Nanny countered. But they can't learn at all.

We only have babies when we're young enough not to know how grim life turns out. Once we really get the full measure of it—we're slow learners, we women—we dry up in disgust and sensibly halt production. But

age doesn't always constitute wisdom. And people grow up on different schedules, one from the next.

I am forty. [...] I know who I am. The treachery of possibilities that threaten to swamp a young guy -- I negotiated them. I'm on the other side. The safe side. Why then do I remember the perilous moments with such fond affection?

I am alive. But I'm not that girl. I'm a woman grown from a life broken in the middle.

And, once the innocence of childhood is lost, no adolescent has ever regained it.

once you outgrow that fetching habit of faith you will display a ferocious authority.

A NOTION OF CHARACTER, not so much discredited as simply forgotten, once held that people only came into themselves partway through their lives. They woke up, were they lucky enough to have consciousness, in the act of doing something they already knew how to do:

I'm much larger than you are. So we can't share anything equally. Grow up a little and you'll see what I mean.