Quotes by Maturity Many people think in terms of either/or: either you're nice or you're tough. Win-win requires that you be both. It is a balancing act between courage and consideration. To go for win-win, you not only have to be empathic, but you also have to be confident. You not only have to be considerate and sensitive, you also have to be brave. To do that-to achieve that balance between courage and consideration-is the essence of real maturity and is fundamental to win-win. Stephen Covey maturitynicereal Just from being with my grandmother, my maturity escalated. And now I'm in tune to the needs of people. It was a large responsibility, taking care of a human being. Steve Garvey grandmothermaturityresponsibility The only sure way to maturity is through pain. Steve Saint maturitypainway The sea remains the greatest wilderness. To my mind, voyaging through wildernesses, be they full of woods or waves, is essential to the growth and maturity of the human spirit. Steven Callahan maturitygrowthsea You're not the center of the universe, you know. Stephenie Meyer center-of-the-universematuritymoon Maturity is largely about acquiring the confidence and the competence to make your own decisions. Susan Maushart competencematuritydecision I have met a lot of guys in their 40s who have the maturity of a 15 - year-old and men in their 20s who have older sensibilities. They just need to live in their own apartment. That's kind of a deal breaker. Sutton Foster maturitymenyears Maturity begins when we're content to feel we're right about something without feeling the necessity to prove someone else wrong. Sydney J. Harris maturityfeelingsinspirational I have never been a fan of bond funds. Unlike a direct investment in an individual bond that you can hold to maturity and be assured you will get your principal back (assuming no default), a fund has no finite maturity date and most funds are actively traded. Suze Orman assumingmaturityfans He feared his maturity as it grew upon him with its ripe thought, its skill, its finished art; yet which lacked the poetry of boyhood to make living a full end of life. T. E. Lawrence maturityskillsart The art of avoiding extremes is an art that is drawn on the canvas of maturity and painted with the abstract strokes of many experiences. T. D. Jakes maturityinspirationalart Adolescence has been recognised as a stage of human development since medieval times--long, long before the industrial revolution--and, as it is now, has long been seen as a phase which centers on the fusion of sexual and social maturity. Indeed, adolescence as a concept has as long a history as that of puberty, which is sometimes considered more concrete, and hence much easier to name and to recognize. Terri E Apter maturitynameslong Adolescents, for all their self-involvement, are emerging from the self-centeredness of childhood. Their perception of other people has more depth. They are better equipped at appreciating others' reasons for action, or the basis of others' emotions. But this maturity functions in a piecemeal fashion. They show more understanding of their friends, but not of their teachers. Terri E Apter maturityfashionteacher Psychedelic experiences are beyond the reach of cultural manipulation, and discovering this and exploring it is somehow the frontier of maturity. Culture is a form of enforced infantilism. It's the last nursery, and most people never leave it. Terence McKenna maturitylastspeople Only with maturity did I come to appreciate my own Chinese roots: not just the food and the ancient history, but also the philosophy of child-rearing and the respect for education and knowledge. Tess Gerritsen maturityphilosophychildren Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth. Thomas A. Edison maturityinsightfultime The finest flowers of genius have grown in an atmosphere where those of Nature are prone to droop, and difficult to bring to maturity. Thomas Guthrie atmospherematurityflower A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong. Thomas Szasz maturityfamilychildren We do not ignore maturity. Maturity consists in not losing the past while fully living in the present with a prudent awareness of the possibilities of the future. Thomas Traherne prudentmaturitypast Accumulating years in the act of living is no guarantee of maturity. In fact, it is possible to be born, grow old and die without ever maturing. Tian Dayton maturityguaranteesyears«2324252627282930313233»
