Mature Quotes - Page 6

Complaints about reality are immature.

A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest.

When you have a kid, you have to be more mature.

A perfect poem is impossible. Once it had been written, the world would end. Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

It's amazing how much 'mature wisdom' resembles being too tired.

Mature prayer always breaks into gratitude.

To be premature is to be perfect

I feel about 18, but my mind is much more mature now, so it's a perfect combination.

I don't know. Haven't I always been mature?

That the ulterior significance of every mode of human association lies in the contribution which it makes to the improvement of the quality of experience is a fact most easily recognized in dealing with the immature.

I think capitalism will not disappear, but it's going to increasingly not be the exclusive arbiter of economic life. It's going to have to find value in interacting with the sharing economy on many levels. And this hybrid system that's already emerging among millennials is going to be a mature system where, by midcentury, part of the day will be in the capitalist market, part of the day in the sharing economy, depending on your marginal costs.

You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. You are only young once, then you need another reason to act foolish. You are the only authority on what is best for you.

Writers have to keep on writing if they want to mature, like caterpillars endlessly chewing on leaves.

You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I'm taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.

There is no dunce like a mature dunce.

Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something else.

When you're a first-round pick and you get to the big leagues at 22, there's almost a sense that you've got to mature.

I'm definitely careful. I'm not reckless or stupid, but that's how I was raised, to not be stupid or immature in as far as trying to grow up too quickly or putting forward a certain image that isn't me.

I made a more mature approach to industrial music.

Common criticism of the Internet is that it is dominated by the crude, the uninformed, the immature, the smug, the untalented, the repetitious, the pathetic, the hostile, the deluded, the sefl-righteous, and the shrill. This criticism overlooks the fact that the Internet also offers - for the savvy individual who knows where to look - the tasteless and borderline insane.

Software will get to be somewhat more mature, ah, but it will never be as predictable as most areas of engineering.

Maturity is the ability to harness your abilities and your energies and do more than is expected. The mature person refuses to settle for mediocrity. He/she would rather aim high and miss the mark than low-and make it.

I don't need to prove I'm an adult by being ultra-sexy that's immature

Utopias are often just premature truths.

Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.