Quotes About Maturity

I think I've always looked older than I am. I hope that's going to work in my favor when I get older.

On the one hand, you're the same person, but as you get older, you change somewhat, and you never know how it's going to affect your work.

If people don't learn to work by the time they're in their 30s, they're never very productive.

You can't be crazy and wild when you're on work time. But, I like it, in that sense I think it makes you a better person for having matured at a younger age.

Reality is, you have to work harder the older you get.

One of the by-products of being allowed to start my professional career prematurely is that the evolution of my work is really evident.

I had a paper round and every night I would put the dinner on before Mum came home from work. I was capable because I had to be.

In the film business, when you're young, you just want to work. But when you're older, it has more to do with who's involved with the project - who you're going to get in the boat with.

It has taken me 20 years to eliminate the unnecessary elements from my work.

The fact of the matter is I'm 21 now. I stay home. I feed my dogs. I don't really go out. I work.

Until you look forward to all criticism, your Work's not done.

Maybe it takes forty years of your life to understand how the world seems to work.

Let's take the work seriously, and not ourselves seriously.

As I get older and write more books I'm definitely allowing the humorous side of my personality more rein in my work.

Most people probably become more jaded the longer they work in the world of work.

I still write what I need to write - but I can't deny that something has changed when I think about sending work out. Maybe it's just growing older and feeling more responsible to the world.

The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself.

I was a good student. By 8th grade, you've basically learned everything. By senior year, we was drinking, we was kickin' it, we was rapping. It wasn't really like business, hard work.

It's hard to think that say Shakespeare could have written "The Tempest" when he was young. It seems to be reflective work or retrospective work.

We are His greatest handiwork even though we are still a work in progress.

The work gets more difficult as you get older. You learn more and you gather more experiences, there is deeper pain and higher highs.

A professional is a man who can do his job when he doesn't feel like it. An amateur is a man who can't do his job when he does feel like it.

But now that I've matured, I've realized that - at the end of the day - what's really important is the work, not what people think of me.

I feel like I'm getting better as a writer and as a singer and that there is more to discover there, so hopefully other people feel that way too without having to disassociate with the earlier work.