Quotes About Maturity

The worst things that ever happened to me were before I was 20. It has been slow, hard-won improvement since then.

Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged heart.

Millionaires are risk-takers, and they don't become millionaires until they're 40 or 50. It's a slower process than a lot of people think.

People get to know me slowly and over the course of time. I'll probably still be a newcomer when I'm 60.

What can you know about life at 14? I have learned a lot since, but you learn slowly. You get hit by many things and try to make sense of it.

There's slowly been a kind of shift in how we think about childhood. It's like childhood almost extends to 20 or 22 even after the end of college. When I was growing up, there was this expectation that you were on your own now.

It's not sinking in, as I still believe I am a kid! And now I am going to have a kid. I'm slowly digesting it.

I want to be an artist that grows slowly. If you appear overnight, there's a chance that you will also just disappear overnight.

I've slowly become more comfortable as an artist and as a person.

Zuri is slowly starting to become more of who I am in real life. Starting on 'Jessie,' she had a huge imagination, and had her imaginary friends, but now that she's 13 she has definitely passed that stage in her life and has grown so much.

There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.

I'm not going to be horrible just for the sake of having attitude or make other people feel small just to make me feel bigger.

Obviously, you look for something that is commensurate with your age. You know that you can't be playing the young hero anymore, and you have to be relegated to something smaller and something elderly, and you just try and do your best.

People think that their world will get smaller as they get older. My experience is just the opposite. Your senses become more acute. You start to blossom.

I have nothing against smaller roles; they made me what I am today. But, progression is the way of life.

I lived on my own when I was living in New York City when I was 18, working on a show. And that definitely kind of grows you up a little faster than a normal 18-year-old in college, so I think so. I think I've got some street smarts.

When I seemed to be irritable or sad, my father would quote the learned Dr. Knight, and then say, 'Just go to sleep.' Like all smart aleck kids, I thought the advice was silly. But as I've grown older, I've realized just how smart Knight was.

I don't care how smart a kid you are. The only way you learn what's not right is from experience.

I've never progressed very far from my days as a smart aleck in middle school.

Dustin Rhodes is very mature in this business and he is a very smart man and he came up in a rough way and let me put it to you this way; when you are Dusty Rhodes' kid it is a horrible shadow to step in to, number two you've already got heat because your Dad is the booker and people think you are getting a free ride.

You play more games, you get more maturity, and you get smarter.

As I matured, I became a smarter person, a more sensitive person, a more thinking person.

I think just by the nature of getting older, I hope that I'm a smarter basketball player than I was at 23.

Of course, I know by growing older, I'm going to become stronger, smarter, and know the game better.