#maturity

I feel like I'm 18, with the maturity level of like a 14-year-old. I'm still the same goofball; I'm still in college, as far as I'm concerned. ↗

— Duff Goldman

#college #concerned #far #feel #goofball

I think it's a change that I did not intend at the time but it is clear that, from The Flower of My Secret on, there is a change in my films. A lot of the journalists have very generously attributed this to my growing maturity. ↗

— Pedro Almodovar

#change #clear #did #films #flower

...You don't always get what you expect. I wish someone, sometime when I was growing up, would have told me what expectations would get me. ... Our parents, schools, everyone tells us things will be a certain way when we're adults and if they're not that way, we should make them be; or at least pretend. But after a certain point that just doesn't work. ↗

— Chris Crutcher

#experience #maturity #perspective #experience

Inconsistencies in men are generally testimony to their immaturity. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#immaturity #inconsistencies #men #testimony #their

For many, immaturity is an ideal, not a defect. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#ideal #immaturity #many

I guess whatever maturity is there may be there because I've been keeping a journal forever. In high school my friends would make fun of me - you're doing your man diary again. So I was always trying to translate experience into words. ↗

— Anthony Doerr

#always #because #been #diary #doing

Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#frequently #maturity #more #most #often

Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised. ↗

— Ann Landers

#bear #being #carry #duty #even

True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriends - and he accepts it. ↗

— Larry McMurtry

#become #father #father figure #figure #girlfriends

There seems to be more opportunities for old guys like me to do a little fighting and running because the lead characters also require a bit of depth and maturity and gravitas that one is likely to acquire doing drama all those years. ↗

— Liam Neeson

#also #because #bit #characters #depth