Quotes About Maturity

Another thing: despite my youthful appearance, I am quite capable of making decisions.

I just feel like I haven't grown up yet. I live on my own and I do grown-up things, but there is something about me that is very youthful.

Even though you can have a youthful energy, it doesn't mean that you can't know a lot and bring a lot to the situation.

I used to just write about my own apathy, but that youthful, apathetic way of looking at things grew thin as I got older.

Stop being childish. Use your time better - better yourself. Read a book, or do a workout exercise on YouTube.

I went around in my teens and early 20s thinking that life was a con trick. I had managed to grow up believing in all sorts of romantic ideas about hard work and justice and truth, and it seemed the real world was much more complicated and shaded than I wanted to believe.

When I was in the academy I might have done a little trick here or there or a step-over, but as you get older I learned in the Championship, my first real experience of it, they don't always come off and experienced players are going to read it.

You can teach an old dog new tricks, and this old dog wants to learn.

Over the years, I had something in principle against autobiographical writing altogether because memory plays tricks on us, and we also tend to reinvent ourselves. But there comes an age when one begins to observe life, and there are things that need time to mature, also in terms of literary form.

The problem as you get older... is that you become more self-aware. At the same time, you have to surprise yourself. There's no way of arranging the surprise, so it is tricky.

It gets really tricky giving advice. The older I get, the less advice I give.

Childhood is a tricky business. Usually, something goes wrong.

I've done quite a lot of growing up in public, which has been tricky at times.

You get to be a certain age - I am 58 - and it becomes tricky not to become a caricature of yourself.

I've just tried to grow up in the most natural and gradual process that I possibly can and make choices I feel are right for me and my fans.

I think that every band tries to mature their sound through their existence, you know?

There were a lot of little triggers that made me realize that life is now; life is happening while we're preoccupied with stupidities. Of course, growing. Of course, becoming a mother and understanding life from another perspective.

One of the catches with being a dope artist is saying the same exact thing a trillion different ways, and being able to get across somehow differently every time. The way to express maturity and growth and evolution is to do that throughout the music.

I consider my first three films a trilogy and I was finished with discussing the topic of teenagehood and coming of age.

I feel like I've matured more musically than I have personally. But I totally embrace what becoming older has to offer. I find the wisdom that comes with each passing year is a trip.

Our troops are committed to bringing security to Iraq while its government matures. American forces will continue to accomplish their mission with caution, precision and honor with the thanks of a grateful nation.

One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better.

I liked being a minor because you can't get into trouble. Now I just have to try and behave myself.

As I grew older, I came to feel more responsible for any hardship or trouble my career caused my family.