Quotes About Maturity

I signed with a club when I was 12. I started living by myself at 14. I turned pro at 16. I grew up playing nothing but point guard, and suddenly, I was a 16-year-old small forward matched up against 35-year-old men.

I was signed at 18 and had to grow up quickly.

I knew I wasn't going to write a record as soon as I got signed, because I hadn't had any life experiences. I was still at school, and I wasn't going to write about that.

When I signed with the Oilers, I felt like a rookie. I was 33.

Because I've always been good at knowing what I thought and not reviewing prematurely and have gotten better at those things over the years, my flips are rarely that significant.

What I am signing and what I'm not, I do not discuss with either of my parents. I decide.

For kids like me, being called childish can be a frequent occurrence. Every time we make irrational demands, exhibit irresponsible behavior, or display any other signs of being normal American citizens, we are called childish.

I would look a little silly playing Casanova now.

I have grown up a lot over the years and now I can laugh about the silly mistakes I made on TV.

There's a number of years that went by going from a white belt to a black belt. And I think, in a similar respect, years go by with your maturation process, and it's just as important to be disciplined with that as it was in karate.

Something that comes along with age causes you to simmer a bit.

As you get older, you develop your style. For me, the simpler, the better.

My palate is simpler than it used to be. A young chef adds and adds and adds to the plate. As you get older, you start to take away.

I find that as you get older, you start to simplify things in general.

The sign of the amateur is overglorification of and preoccupation with the mystery. The professional shuts up. She doesn't talk about it. She does her work.

We want a rite of passage. We want to grow up.

There is a lot of growing required.

selfishness, or a desire to avoid responsibility.

Growing up had made her crabby, which happens to the best of us.

It's hard to keep passing myself off as a grown-up when a piece of me is still six years old and utterly at the mercy of authority.

crayon. Age had given his face a softly

We've long assumed that as we mature, we outgrow the need for the intense closeness, nurturing, and comfort we had with our caregivers as children and that as adults, the romantic attachments we form are essentially sexual in nature. This is a complete distortion of adult love.

After you get stung, you can't get unstung no matter how much you whine about it.

Ee come a time when eby tub haffa res pon e won bottom, said Hepzibah, then translated: At some point in life, you have to stand on your own two feet.