Quotes About Maturation

Maturation is fundamentally the process of learning to discipline one's self and to carry personal responsibility.

Until the juice ferments a while in the cask, it isn't wine. If you wish your heart to be bright, you must do a little work.

I've always been a late bloomer. My body developed late. From ninth to 10th grade, I grew like 3 inches. Just kind of stretched out. I was like 6-1, grew to 6-4 in 10th grade.

Every player develops over time, as does every team and every opponent.

And that's what happened to that show. It started ordinary, it started really rather bad. As I said, there was a review that said, really, we think the commercials are better than the show. And then it gradually developed.

As time went on, Thanos just sort of grew organically on his own.

A chicken grows up in a little less time than an ostrich. An ostrich takes a whole year. A chicken takes a few months.

Our music is becoming more mature.

I think the best things are the ones that happen organically and take a while because nothing really happens overnight if you think about it.

A flower is not better when it blooms than when it is merely a bud; at each stage it is the same thing — a flower in the process of expressing its potential.

E il principe notò subito che la persona che tornava a casa era completamente diversa da quella che era partita. Adesso sua figlia era una donna, non più una ragazzina. Aveva amato e vissuto e lavorato, ed era cresciuta. E la bellezza dell'Africa le si era insinuata nell'anima.

Conservatives want to be your daddy, telling you what to do and what not to do. Liberals want to be your mommy, feeding you, tucking you in, and wiping your nose. Libertarians want to treat you as an adult.

We are designed to outgrow everything

In reality, genuine epiphanies are extremely rare. In contemporary adult life maturation & acquiescence to reality are gradual processes. Modern usage usually deploys epiphany as a metaphor. It is usually only in dramatic representations, religious iconography, and the 'magical thinking' of children that insight is compressed to a sudden blinding flash.

How many things by season season'd are, To their right praise and true perfection!

Things growing are not ripe until their season:

Why even ask the question? Growth is "natural," a child "develops," its potentialities "unfold." The words themselves, in their root meanings, proclaim inevitability.

There are three terrible ages of childhood - 1 to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30.

She (her mother) noticed that I was prettier than I was at home. Thus do girls change color in the warmth of masculine desire, whether they are fifteen or thirty.

Who does not grow, declines.

You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age.

It's not as important what a woman is as what she's becoming

Let him grow up, Regan. Quit fighting the inevitable. For Christ's sake, Jeremy's nearly a man." "Haven't you heard? Twenty's the new twelve." "Only from overprotective, control-freak mothers.

Van Halen is a work in progress.