Quotes About Maturity

I've apparently been the victim of growing up, which apparently happens to all of us at one point or another.

When you're fifteen and somebody tells you they love you, you're gonna believe them. And when you're fifteen don't forget to look before you fall. In your life you'll do things greater than dating the boy on the football team. I didn't know it at fifteen.

I know he loved you. A long time ago. I ain't jealous of you, Just thought you should know. You were never good enough for him, Or anything like me. So you might as well sit back, cause I ain't trying to show maturity.

In high school, I used to think it was like sooooo cool if a guy had an awesome car. Now none of that matters. These days I look for character and honesty and trust.

Maturity means seeing the differences, but realizing they don't matter. There's no technological shortcut.

S]kill at debate isn't the same as maturity.

Playtime's over, Jax," she says. "Time to do your homework.

As always, the roles one plays become recognizable only with greater maturity. To me, these people seem like children on a playground; I'm amused by their earnestness, and embarassed to remember myself doing those same things. Their activities are appropriate for them, but I couldn't bear to participate now; when I became a man, I put away childish things. I will deal with the world of normal humans only as needed to support myself. —

if you want to create the common sense that comes from twenty years of being in the world, you need to devote twenty years to the task. You can't assemble an equivalent collection of heuristics in less time; experience is algorithmically incompressible.

Hassan stared at the boy for a long moment, and then his anger faded, and he let him go. When next he saw his older self, Hassan asked him, "Why did you not warn me about the pickpocket?" "Did you not enjoy the experience?

There are no shortcuts. If you want to create the common sense that comes from twenty years of being in the world, you need to devote twenty years to the task... experience is algorithmically incompressible.

Just as we grow to understand the purpose of customs that seemed pointless to us in our youth,

Maturity means seeing the differences, but realizing they don't matter.

You solve it as you get older, when you reach the point where you've tasted so much that you can somehow sacrifice certain things more easily, and you have a more tolerant view of things like possessiveness (your own) and a broader acceptance of the pains and the losses.

Do they miss being sexed? These are hard questions to answer, but we can think of them in this way: If we were neutered before sexual maturity, we probably wouldn't miss what we didn't know. So may it be with our dogs.

Respectful teenagers are developed when they are 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5, not at 13, 14, 15, or 16.

When we allow our children to become independent decision makers we give them a false idea of liberty and a mistaken notion about freedom. 

Now that I'm older, I appreciate my culture and I appreciate Spanish. I feel bad I didn't pick up on it earlier.

I think childhood is, generally speaking, a preparation for disappointment.

As we get older - perhaps I'm just speaking for myself - we can get too cynical.

Speaking personally, I didn't think 40 would be a big issue, and I don't think I have issues about age, but there are naturally some big questions that come up at that point in your life.

Making fun of people's looks is something that children do - mean children - and, in fact, linguists have determined that Trump actually speaks like a 3rd grader.

'While You Were Sleeping' was actually a special opportunity for me to grow up a lot.

We are on red alert when it comes to how we are perceiving ourselves as a species. There's no desire to be an adult.