Sigmund Freud
Neurologist, Psychoanalyst
"Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification."
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Mature
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Bram Cohen
Software Developer
"The mark of a mature programmer is willingness to throw out code you spent time on when you realize it's pointless"
Clarice Lispector
Novelist, Short Story Writer
"Things were somehow so good that they were in danger of becoming very bad because what is fully mature is very close to rotting"
Horace Mann
Educator
"Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals."
Saint Augustine
Theologian, Philosopher
"The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them."
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"We do not mature through age. We mature in awareness."
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"You become mature when you become the authority of your own life."
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"With anything, you have to approach from an educational, mature standpoint."
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"To grow mature is to separate more distinctly, to connect more closely."
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"My overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be."
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"It is the highest creatures who take the longest to mature, and are the most helpless during their immaturity."
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"We thought we were being mature when we were only being safe. We imagined we were being responsible but were only being cowardly. What we called realism turned out to be a way of avoiding things rather than facing them."
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"One of the smartest things a person can do is dampen investment expectations, especially with Berkshire. That would be mature and responsible. I like our model and we should do nicely"
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"In societies where mature workers are respected and where their wisdom is respected, everybody benefits. Workers are more engaged and productive. Their health is better. They live longer."
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"You are mature when you know what is foolhardy and what is courage."
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"One should mature over 20 years."
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"When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch."
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"On religion in particular, the time appears to me to have come, when it is a duty of all who, being qualified in point of knowledge, have, on mature consideration, satisfied themselves that the current opinions are not only false, but hurtful, to make their dissent known."
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"I made a more mature approach to industrial music."
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"An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words."
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"It's amazing how much 'mature wisdom' resembles being too tired."
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"I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible."
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"There is no dunce like a mature dunce."
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"Mature workers are less impulsive, less reactive, more creative and more centered."
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"Software will get to be somewhat more mature, ah, but it will never be as predictable as most areas of engineering."
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