Mature

Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.

It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics often are.

If I were involved with the NBA, I wouldn't want a 19 year old or a 20 year old kid to bring into all the travel and all the problems that exist in the NBA. I would want a much more mature kid. I would want a kid that maybe I've been watching on another team, and now he's 21, 22 years old instead of 18 or 19, and I might trade for that kid.

Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.

Mature workers are less impulsive, less reactive, more creative and more centered.

Mature love is composed and sustaining; a celebration of commitment, companionship, and trust.

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

My kids seem to be more mature and older than I am now somehow. They've gotten ahead of me somehow. But they're very patient with me.

Self centered leaders manipulate when they move people for personal benefit. Mature leaders motivate by moving people for mutual benefit.

We don't mature momentarily, but over the long term.

I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible.

Jeans fit the mature male one of two ways, both dirigible in nature. You make a public impression that's either Hindenburg or Goodyear blimp.

What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

I'm convinced that what kids need today are parents not buddies. They need someone who will exercise mature judgment.