Quotes About Maturity

I wouldn't want people judging me for things I did at 18.

Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment.

Judgment comes from experience and great judgment comes from bad experience.

In 'Gossip Girl,' I was far too judgmental of everything that was happening, because I was young.

The older you get, the longer your jump shot becomes.

It took me until my 40s to realize the five essential areas that are important to at least have a real dating chance. Obviously, beyond the physical compatibility, which is where we all start in junior high school, I think that intellectual compatibility and spiritual compatibility, emotional intelligence, and financial compatibility are important.

The one cool thing with getting older is that you can actively choose to just be an eccentric.

Whenever someone says something bad about you, just confront them on it and just be a man and own up to it. If you said something you shouldn t have said, and it's important to somebody you need to talk to, you need to go talk to them. Be a man. Step up.

The older you get, and the more you're in this business, the more you kind of feel like, 'Why don't we just do it my way?'

We're not whole people if we're just one emotion. On any given day, you can be happy, sad, angry, and so on... As you mature, you just learn to deal with each one of those emotions.

I'm avoiding having an assistant because then I would become the horrible boss. I can't justify having an assistant as a 25-year-old; I just can't do it!

Not liking me because I'm black is so juvenile and immature, because there's many reasons to not like me.

As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

I just want to keep going as long as I can. I'm getting older, and I want to keep growing, and I feel pretty excited about what I do. Whether it's true or not, I believe I'm doing better as a writer, which is really nice.

I didn't use to think anything was worth keeping private. Now I do.

When you get older, keeping the private stuff private seems less important.

There is no age limit on the enjoyment of sex. It keeps getting better.

There is nothing so aggravating as a fresh boy who is too old to ignore and too young to kick.

Many times players have done stuff to me, like kick me. But I'm not a cry baby.

When you get older, you look at who has power differently. When you're 21 years old, and you do something ridiculous at the National Art Gallery and get kicked out by the security guard, in your mind, you're speaking truth to power.

I kicked down doors to show that Hiphop has matured. And it may be a little controversial.

It's always good to have friends, but it's really about family. When you're younger, that isn't always clear. With friends it's about going out and kicking it. You learn that's not where it ends up.

I learned by example. ...As a kid you think you are just the same as other adults.

You have to discover when you're inadequate to be funny and you don't know you're inadequate when you're a kid.