Quotes About Immaturity

Your basic problem is emotional immaturity. You want life to be like in the movies, full of excitement. That's how a child's mind works, but the adults accept regularity, tedium, frustration.

The secret of comedy is don't grow up. That's why some comedians are a nightmare, because they never grow up.

If somebody ever says something is a mature theme, it's bound to not be. I mean, you shouldn't fall for that. You can make it sound mature, but anything that's about being mature is pretty immature.

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever." —GERMAINE GREER

A mature childhood can be a recipe for an immature adulthood—a principle most publicly borne out by Michael Jackson.

Now in many cases—too many cases—the activity of the immature human being is simply played upon to secure habits which are useful. He is trained like an animal rather than educated like a human being.

As the developmental psychologist Alison Gopnik and her colleagues have observed, general intelligence, behavioral flexibility, ability to solve novel problems, and a reliance on learning from others tends to roughly correlate with an extended period of helpless immaturity.13 This relationship is found across a broad range of animals, including birds and mammals, suggesting that it tracks a fundamental evolutionary trade-off between narrow competence and creative flexibility.

One of the most extraordinary examples of adaptation to immaturity in contemporary American society today is how the word abusive has replaced the words nasty and objectionable.

Inconsistencies in men are generally testimony to their immaturity.

Maturity comes not with age but with the acceptance of responsibility. You are only young once but immaturity can last a lifetime!

Usted es joven solo una vez, pero puede ser inmaduro por siempre. Dios nos manda a ser como niños, pero desprecia que seamos infantiles.

Every State's interests play a significant role in disputes with geographical and financial prospects, wherever that exist. To be sure, expecting law and justice for that executes immaturity and crack of political knowledge and insight.

Maturity does not match, with immaturity.

Maybe I was naïve and undeveloped, even delayed, but if growing up meant the death of dreams, I chose immaturity

When one came to know them it was surprising how childish grown people could be.

Good to know we're all twelve years old mentally. Keeps things in perspective.

And I don't want his body touching something I wear. He'll contaminate it. (Sasha) Oh, good grief, Sasha. Grow up. You're four hundred years old and you're acting like a whelp. It's not like he has cooties or anything. (Astrid) Yes he does! (Sasha)

You're not welcome here. Why don't you slink off into the hole you crawled out of? (Adron) Oh, that's real original and mature. Why don't you call me Mr. Stinky Pants while you're at it? (Jayce)

What are you doing here? (Terri) I'll tell you if you tell me why you're here. (Nathan) No. Leave. (Terri) No. You leave. (Nathan) What are we? Four? (Terri)

Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor.

I knew I was breaking about a dozen laws but I guess I had different attitudes to stuff like that since the war. Laws were for the stupid the immature the irresponsible. The inflexible and the narrow-minded. The prejudiced. The obsessive. The lazy and careless and selfish and spoilt. The violent.

The Spice Girl morality is the morality of the three-year-old.

When I lost to Ray Mercer, I was young. I deserved to lose that fight because I hadn't learned how to cover all the angles in preparation. I was immature.

Congress is like first grade, only not as well behaved.