Maturation Quotes - Page 2

He was experienced enough to spot the downside of doing the right thing.

The Word of God bares weight on all ages always.

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

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

A person who could withstand such dreadful insults from his or her enemies can have the ability to reach his or her potentials by becoming socially, educationally and economically successful.

Nietzsche tended to equate the memorable with the painful.

The Mother Thing makes our world.

Possibly, there was something to be said for the intellectual discipline of second-guessing what you thought was true.

Better to wait actively than passively.

When we are young we think our troubles a mighty business – that the world is spread out expressly as a stage for the particular drama of our lives and that we have a right to rant and foam at the mouth if we are crossed. I have done enough of that in my time.

JFK apparently felt genuine sympathy for his 1960 presidential opponent Richard Nixon. He felt that, with Nixon's frequent shifts in political philosophy and reinventions, he must have to decide which Nixon he will be at each stop. This, Kennedy reasoned, must be exhausting.

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.

Nobody works harder at learning than a curious kid.

The altar must be built in one place so that the fire may come down in another place.

A man is as old as his arteries and as young as his ideas.

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

She was too well-trained to panic.

Pain is nothing but growth waiting for us to give it permission to grow us up.

Resilience is rooted in habits we can cultivate and change.

Adams had gone to Harvard, Jefferson to William and Mary. Washington had gone to war.

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.

He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age. But to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden.

I was only 44, which is childhood philosophy.

Topanga: Do I need to know the middle of the story?Corey: Do you want to be proud of her?Topanga: Yes.Corey: Then, no.

At least grandmas don't look for angles like other people. Jo

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

Paraphrasing Plato's Republic: "Only people who have allowed themselves to be reformed by reality have it in themselves to reform their polis for the better.

Considerable social science research has found that constant praise of children can backfire, because it so often consists of telling children how smart they are, not of praising children for the things they actually do. As a result, many children become protective of their image of being smart and are reluctant to take chances that might actually damage that image.

The art of diplomacy is finding a reasonable route among imperfect alternatives.

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

(He) committed the cardinal sin in a college atmosphere not only of being different but of being different in a way that left a lot of people with the impression that he thought he was better than they were.

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

Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become. A better artist can look at an old woman and see the pretty girl that she used to be. But a great artist--a master--and that is what Auguste Rodin was--can look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is . . . and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be . . . and more than that, he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armadillo, or even you, see that this lovely young girl is still alive, not old and ugly at all, but simply prisoned inside her ruined body.

If something traumatizes you, please do not think that your life is coming to an end. You will still have opportunities to resume with your life by speaking up and seeking for assistance.

I was young enough to be an optimist.

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

Sometimes God seems to be killing us when He is actually saving us.

Undergoing personal change is a difficult but necessary process of maturing into the ultimate manifestation of a desirable self. True personal transformation requires a person honestly to assess their inner spirituality and adopt a clear vision of who they want to be. An earnest person experiencing inner transformation of their values and belief system is apt to feel conflicted, confused, and disorientated. Change of self is displacement, disarticulation, and loss of self. Alteration of our self-image results in disrupting, dislocating, and modifying a person’s perspective of what is significant.

Just out of high school, you didn't realize you were creating drama for the sake of drama.

Not every story started off big enough to notice.

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

In the little world in which children have their existence whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice. He may be only small injustice that the child can be exposed to; but the child is small, and its world is small, and its rocking-horse stance as many hands high according to scale, as a big-boned Irish hunter.

Exiting from any long-term relationship comes at great personal expense, which explains why so many people are understandably reluctant to endure the cost of severance. Beginnings and endings are always dramatic and occasionally traumatic. Youthful brio allows us to engage in transformation. As we age, we carefully weigh the spectacle of continuing enduring harrowing situations or seeking melodramatic renovation of our core being. Analysis of the respective cost benefit ratio, consideration of the known versus the unknown, can delay or permanently deter us from altering our environment, leading our persona to become more rigid as we mature. Transformations in life are disconcerting to people who resist change.

Moral action – humble and honest – is the tribute that power must at some point pay to reason.

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

The same principles that make up a good story also make up a good life.

It took him (Washington) more than a year to gain control over his own aggressive instincts.

The faster the motion, the less time to think. Fuselage journalism, Hugh Sidey of Time later called it.

We become what we behold.

Graduates fared better if, during college, they did any one of these: developed a relationship with a mentor; took on a project that lasted a semester or more; did a job or internship directly connected to their chosen field; or became deeply involved in a campus organization or activity (as opposed to minimally involved in a range of things).

The author describes the critic within us as adults as "the selves who live too much in their heads rather than their bodies, who are burdened with too much knowledge about how the world works rather than excited about how it could work or should, who are afraid of being judged and not being loved. Most adults do not live in a world of forgiveness and unconditional love, unless, that is, they have small children.

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.

It's a complex song, and it's fascinating to watch the creative process as they went back and forth and finally created it over a few months. Lennon was always my favorite Beatle. [ He laughs as Lennon stops during the first take and makes the band go back and revise a chord.] Did you hear that little detour they took? It didn't work, so they went back and started from where they were. It's so raw in this version. It actually makes the sound like mere mortals. You could actually imagine other people doing this, up to this version. Maybe not writing and conceiving it, but certainly playing it. Yet they just didn't stop. They were such perfectionists they kept it going This made a big impression on me when I was in my thirties. You could just tell how much they worked at this. They did a bundle of work between each of these recording. They kept sending it back to make it closer to perfect.[ As he listens to the third take, he points out how instrumentation has gotten more complex.] The way we build stuff at Apple is often this way. Even the number of models we'd make of a new notebook or iPod. We would start off with a version and then begin refining and refining, doing detailed models of the design, or the buttons, or how a function operates. It's a lot of work, but in the end it just gets better, and soon it's like, " Wow, how did they do that?!? Where are the screws?

It only makes sense to me when I can get in trouble for it. – Maya

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

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

Because he was suffering doubts about himself and his future, Adams may have felt comfort demeaning the behavior and the character of women.

You are the gatekeeper of your child’s mental diet.

Courage was not something one picked out of the air. It was something like a bank account. You could withdraw only so much before it was necessary to stop, to take the time to make new deposits.

Make wisdom human to the adolescent mind.