Quotes About Maturation

#1. If you come into success too soon, you'll burn out and be finished before you know it. If you let the maturation process happen naturally, you'll be happier with yourself in the end.

Lucinda Williams

#2. Self-actualizing people are those who have come to a high level of maturation, health and self-fulfillment ... the values that self-actualizers appreciate include truth, creativity, beauty, goodness, wholeness, aliveness, uniqueness, justice, simplicity, and self-sufficiency.

Abraham Maslow

#3. As we continue to look for "developmental deficiencies" in our maturation in Christ, how are you doing in the area of contentment? How quick is your impulse to find satisfaction in Christ, to go to the joy of the gospel in times of stress, frustration, disappointment, and trouble?

Matt Chandler

#4. True maturation on the spiritual path requires that we discover the depth of our wounds. As Achaan Chah put it, "If you haven't cried a number of times, your meditation hasn't really begun." A

Jack Kornfield

#5. Perhaps we need to separate youth from education. Education lasts forever. Youth is the time for exploration, maturation, socialization.

Jeff Jarvis

#6. It is well known that measles is an important development milestone in the life and maturing processes in children. Why would anybody want to stop or delay the maturation processes of children and of their immune systems?

Viera Scheibner

#7. Easter is the miracle of transformation as seen in the change of seasons, in the maturation of mortal persons, and in the resurrection of souls.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#8. I'm not imagining me being the James Bond girl, because anyway I don't have the good maturation.

Audrey Tautou

#9. If there is anything interesting about my story it's the fact that it's not unique at all. I feel that I have been through what almost everyone I know has - a slow and gradual maturation process.

Marianne Williamson

#10. My understanding from the Word of God is that I am supposed to preach for the maturation of the believer with a view that lost people are there.

Matt Chandler

#11. Silence is the maturation of wisdom.

Maimonides

#12. Singleness would be recognized as a vital stage of the journey to maturation, a time to learn about who we are, to learn responsibility and self-sufficiency, to identify our true desires, and to confront our inner strengths and demons.

Harville Hendrix

#13. they found considerable plasticity from the onset of puberty into the early twenties. Once this was discovered, it became obvious that the upheavals of adolescence and early adulthood coincide with a previously unrecognized sensitive period of brain maturation in the prefrontal cortex

Louis Cozolino

#14. Just as learning to ride a bicycle requires maturation, training, and practice, so, too, does learning to think (e.g., Segal, Chipman, & Glaser, 1985) and learning to write (e.g., Bereiter & Scardamalia, 1987).

Ronald T. Kellogg

#15. The years nineteen and twenty are a crucial stage in the maturation of character, and if you allow yourself to become warped when you're that age, it will cause you pain when you're older.

Haruki Murakami

#16. Everything worthwhile ends. We are in the perpetual process now: creation, maturation, cessation.

John Logan

#17. It was as though the very process of maturation with him had been reversed, so that with experience he seemed to grow more, not less, childish.

David Falkner

#18. There is a time lag between the activation of brain systems that excite our emotions and impulses and the maturation of brain systems that allow us to check these feelings and urgings - it's like driving a car with a sensitive gas pedal and bad brakes.

Laurence Steinberg

#19. It is all too common for caterpillars to become butterflies and then to maintain that in their youth they had been little butterflies. Maturation makes liars of us all.

George E. Vaillant

#20. There's a number of years that went by going from a white belt to a black belt. And I think, in a similar respect, years go by with your maturation process, and it's just as important to be disciplined with that as it was in karate.

D'Brickashaw Ferguson

#21. The most significant and alarming consequence of early maturation is an increased risk for breast cancer in adulthood.

Joel Fuhrman

#22. We have lost sight of nature's role in the whole process of maturation and growing up. Parents and nature are a team. And nature can't go on without the parental role of being able to foster individuality and viability unless the attachment needs are fully met.

Gordon Neufeld

#23. Christopher Nolan's astounding third Batman feature, 'The Dark Knight Rises,' represents the true maturation of the superhero movie - and provides the key to understanding the bottomless craving moviegoers have for these films, 34 years after the Christopher Reeve Superman gave birth to the genre.

John Podhoretz

#24. An indispensable ingredient for spiritual maturation is the cultivation of fortitude: strength, forbearance, and patience.

B. Alan Wallace

#25. Everything goes through the cycle of birth, growth, maturation, decay and death. But all of this is an illusion. Everything we see is an illusion.

Frederick Lenz

#26. Maturation is the development from environmental support to self-support.

Bruce Lee

#27. The years 19 and 20 are a crucial stage in the maturation of character, and if you allow yourself to become warped when you're that age, it will cause you pain when you're older. It's true. So think about it carefully.

Haruki Murakami

#28. I am always attracted to the moments when a person who is associated with a certain message, image or sensibility evolves. I am very interested in how audiences respond to that maturation and absorb the evolution.

Raf Simons

#29. The world of time, of space and condition, pleasure and pain, birth, growth, maturation, decay and death, spinning, spinning, spinning this world, always spinning.

Frederick Lenz

#30. The welfare state inhibits the maturation of its young citizens into responsible adults

Dennis Prager

#31. The business of hip hop is probably the most tangible example of the genre's dramatic maturation.

Carlos Wallace

#32. For the most part, mental illness is caused by an absence of or defect in the love that a particular child required from its particular parents for successful maturation and spiritual growth. It

M. Scott Peck

#33. Constant reading pulled me away from the world of my childhood, the world of my parents.

Maureen Corrigan

#34. In the context of today, this WAS heroism.

John Howard Griffin

#35. A letter Lewis wrote reveals an 18-year-old with the energy of a schoolboy and the tastes of an octogenarian.

Philip Zaleski

#36. When you enter heaven you shall find Him there bearing the dew of His youth; and through eternity the Lord Jesus shall still remain the perennial spring of joy, and life, and glory to His people.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#37. The author defines professionalism as exemplified by his subjects in their mutual unwillingness to take expected opposition personally. They would not allow grudges to get in the way of more important business.

Chris Matthews

#38. So it was a crossroads summer, when the universe seemed to stand perilously still like an egg wobbling on a precipice, a regular rite of passage summer that saw us traverse the hazardous divide between the illusions of boyhood and the far more pernicious deceptions of maturity, et cetera.

Sol Luckman

#39. I was only 44, which is childhood philosophy.

Will Durant

#40. One of the mitigating benefits of children is that they make a Lego habit more respectable.

Jonathan V. Last

#41. This anxiety to keep his father from anger was wearisome to him.

Pearl S. Buck

#42. While my college had done an excellent job recruiting me, I had no road map for what I was supposed to do once I made it to campus.

New York Times

#43. It's hard to renounce heroes unless you have one to start with.

Joseph Bottum

#44. If you're having a conversation with someone in speech, and it's not being tape-recorded, you can change your opinion, but on the Internet, it's not like that. On the Internet it's almost as if everything you say were being tape-recorded. You can't say, I changed my mind.

Sherry Turkle

#45. No one can become and remain a theologian unless he is compelled again and again to be astonished at himself.

Karl Barth

#46. (Bonhoeffer's) change was not an ungainly, embarrassing leap from which he would have to retreat slightly when he gained more maturity and perspective. It was by all accounts a deepening consistent with what had gone before.

Eric Metaxas

#47. You never can tell about these mild-mannered boys.

James Carl Nelson

#48. At 17, the gratitude part of their brain is a little undercooked.

Last Man Standing

#49. We spend much of the first half of our lives trying to build internal models that fit the world and much of the last half of our lives trying to adjust the world so it fits the inner models.

Bruce Wexler

#50. He found his voice in the silences, where he could sing as loud and as long as he wanted with no one to complain of it.

Geraldine Brooks

#51. The director of one of the nursing homes I have studied said, We do not become children as we age. But because dependency can look childlike, we too often treat the elderly as though this were the case.

Sherry Turkle

#52. He found his irritation that the American memory could be short.

James Carl Nelson

#53. Rehnquist was just reflecting his shifting role, from outsider to the institutional embodiment of the Court.

Jeffrey Toobin

#54. Jefferson reflected, "I think of her (a college infatuation) perhaps too much for my peace of mind. " Nevertheless, he was robbed of his considerable verbal powers when he got the chance to speak to the object of his affections.

John Ferling

#55. As long as my Duke remains unmarried some of the Great Houses can still hope for alliance.

Frank Herbert

#56. Sex education in the modern manner has been well-described as plumbing for hedonists.

George F. Will

#57. We would prefer all gain and no loss in life, yet that would gain us nothing more than great loss.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#58. I rather mistrust young men who slip into life gracefully.

E. M. Forster

#59. Desire for and delight in God's Word are inseparable.

John Piper

#60. Jefferson was the rare student who came to college already knowing that there could be joy in studying.

John Ferling

#61. The writer as boxer says he develops by, "learning from everyone who'll spar with me.

Davis Miller

#62. We see a first generation going through adolescence knowing their every misstep, all the awkward gestures of their youth, are being frozen in a computer's memory.

Sherry Turkle

#63. He had the ruthlessness of uninterrupted success.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#64. Growing old is humbling and it takes effort to accomplish this stage of life with dignity.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#65. Theodore Roosevelt came to Dekota to experience the dying of one age with the slaying of a rare buffalo and the dawning of the West's industrial age.

H.W. Brands

#66. In being able to learn from his mistakes and grow, Eisenhower "was transformed from a mere person into a personage.

Lynne Olson

#67. The author said Frederick Douglass described himself as a "graduate" of slavery with the marks of his diploma on his back.

Harold Holzer

#68. What delicious abandon in the sleep of the child. Where do we lose it?

Frank Herbert

#69. If boys would think, it would be well to give them less classwork and more opportunity for thought.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#70. Formative commendation to the author as an altar boy: "You're the only one we've got to anticipates what's coming.

John Kasich

#71. My countenance in my old-age does injustice to my heart. John Quincy Adams

Paul C. Nagel

#72. It takes a well-spent lifetime, and perhaps more, to crystalize in us that for which we exist.

Jean Toomer

#73. The military was providing him (George H.W. Bush) with an education that was not available at Andover or Yale.

George W. Bush

#74. Every missed rite of passage leads to a new rigidification of the personality.

Richard Rohr

#75. Eric Erikson writes that in their search for identity, adolescents need a place of stillness, a place to gather themselves.

Sherry Turkle

#76. Truth becomes the foundation for every other life task.

Sherrie Eldridge

#77. We do not handle suffering. Suffering handles us.

Richard Rohr

#78. The speaker says one of the blessings of the family of God is that the enthusiasm of children influences their elders while experience seasons the younger members.

Matt Chandler

#79. I had intended to visit the haunting ground of my school days. Subconsciously I wanted to be in a place where anxiety, responsibility and financial burden had yet to surface.

Joe Cawley

#80. He is able to put aside personal feelings and see the broad strokes. Experience counts in these things.

Geraldine Brooks

#81. The clash is born of the fact that the child within me sees with undiluted clarity what the adult within me is incessantly working to deny. And in these most vexing moments, to be the adult is to defer to the child.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#82. The older they get, the better they get when they were younger

Jim Bouton

#83. As soon as (Teddy Roosevelt) received an assignment for a paper or project, he would set to work, never leaving anything to the last minute. Prepared so far ahead "freed his mind" from worry and facilitated fresh, lucid thought.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#84. The Yale graduate who had refused to read outside the course curriculum (the future Pres. Taft) suddenly found himself inspired.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#85. Make me the father, O Lord, who will show my sons enough of a sense of humor, so that they will always be serious, but never take themselves too seriously. Give them humility, so they will always remember the simplicity of true greatness, the open mind of true wisdom, the meekness of true strength.

Thom S. Rainer

#86. The very lack of explicit pressure was itself a compelling force, for it created a world in which the expectation of success was simply there, a fact of life as basic as breakfast.

H.W. Brands

#87. You are the gatekeeper of your child's mental diet.

Gary Chapman

#88. His childhood passed in quiet anxiety.

Jen Pollock Michel

#89. Unresolved issues from childhood revisit us in adulthood.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#90. Vulnerability creates unimaginable space to build each other up, as much as it creates ample room to tear each other down.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#91. I take account of my life and find that I have lived a lot and learned very little.

Pat Conroy

#92. She was more sure of her politics than she was of herself.

David Halberstam

#93. Samuel Johnson said Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad, tuned the English tongue.

Harold Bloom

#94. Mansions were forming like jewels in my bloodstream.

Pat Conroy

#95. Perhaps wherever you go first is what you judge everything else by.

Patrick Hennessey

#96. He has not shown the special interest in reading that we should like to see but he likes shop work. George H. W. Bush's parents on his Andover application

H.W. Brands

#97. The adult within me would be much wiser to learn from the child within me rather than focus on the demand that the child within me grow up.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#98. Everything in Scripture is either preparation for the Gospel, presentation of the Gospel, or participation in the Gospel.

Dave Harvey

#99. The inability to move from one phase of life and change one's self-identity is, the anxiety of always.

Sherry Turkle

#100. Our experiences are the building blocks of the future hewn out of the granite of the present.

Craig D. Lounsbrough