Quotes About Maturity

He had always found this a comforting thought, that the age of barbarism was not long past, that if humans failed to be kind it was because they were still children, historically speaking

When you treat people like children, you get children's work. Yet that's exactly how a lot of companies and managers treat their employees.

Keeping a solid team together for a long time is a key to peak performance. People grow closer and more comfortable with each other, and consequently do even better work. Meanwhile, rookie teams make rookie mistakes.

What a price we pay for experience, when we must sell our youth to buy it.

Sí, es la conciencia de la edad lo que nos condiciona, más que la edad misma.

La vida entera parece de mentira, cuando se es joven. Lo que les pasa a otros, las desdichas, las calamidades, los crímenes, todo ello nos resulta ajeno, como si no existiera. Incluso lo que nos pasa a nosotros nos parece ajeno una vez que ya ha pasado. Hay quien es así toda la vida, eternamente joven, una desgracia.

the ones that fell among thorns are those who, when they have heard, go out and are choked with cares, riches, and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to maturity. (vv. 12–14)

Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.

But I'm like a fine wine," he replied. "I get better with age.

It takes maturity and tenacity on our part to achieve wholeness, and that means persistently dealing with our pain.

Traumas not only cause injury and pain, traumas block or slow the process of maturity.

for whenever men are right they are not young

It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.

Age seemed to have come down on him as winter comes on the hills after a storm.

The Countess Olenska was the only young woman at the dinner; yet, as Archer scanned the smooth plump elderly faces between their diamond necklaces and towering ostrich feathers, they struck him as curiously immature compared with hers. It frightened him to think what must have gone to the making of her eyes.

Ah, no, he did not want May to have that kind of innocence, the innocence that seals the mind against imagination and the heart against experience...

seemed like that moment of pause and arrest when the warm fluidity of youth is chilled into its final shape. He

Theodora usually found that her good intentions matured too late for practical results.

The artistic temperament is too often only an alibi for lack of responsibility....

Taking responsibility means you don't blame anyone else for your difficulties. It also means that you don't blame yourself.

It has been objected that I am a boy," said Roosevelt wearily—he had been hearing the charge for years—"but I can only offer the time-honored reply, that years will cure me of that." He

As you can hear, it's difficult to learn another language after forty.

Older guys have too much emotional baggage. They've already lived their lives.

what I wanted to get at is the value difference between pornographic playing cards when you're a kid, and pornographic playing cards when you're older. It's that when you're a kid you use the cards as a substitute for a real experience, and when you're older you use real experience as a substitute for the fantasy.