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mature
«The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate.»
Author: Douglas Engelbart
(Inventor)
| About:
Maturity
| Keywords:
directly, directly proportional, embarrassment, embarrassments, mature, proportional, rate, The Embarrassment, tolerate
«To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.»
Author: Henri Bergson
(Philosopher)
| About:
Existence,
Maturity
| Keywords:
creating, endlessly, mature
«To mature is in part to realize that while complete intimacy and omniscience and power cannot be had, self-transcendence, growth, and closeness to others are nevertheless within one's reach.»
Author: Sissela Bok
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closeness, intimacy, mature, nevertheless, omniscience, transcendence
«The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one»
Author: Wilhelm Stekel
| About:
Maturity,
Men
| Keywords:
humbly, immature, mature, nobly, The Mark, The Mark of
«The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawkishness.»
Author: John Keats
(Poet)
| About:
Imagination
| Keywords:
ferment, fermented, mature, sighted, thence, thick, thickest, uncertain, undecided, way of life
«There's a collective knowing that a dimension of reality exists beyond the material plane, and that sense of knowing is causing a mystical resurgence on the planet today. It's not just children who are looking for a missing piece. It is a very mature outlook to question the nature of our reality.»
Author: Marianne Williamson
(Author, Lecturer)
| Keywords:
beyond question, causing, collective, dimension, mature, missing, mystical, outlook, plane, resurgence
«The North American system only wants to consider the positive aspects of reality. Men and women are subjected from childhood to an inexorable process of adaptation; certain principles, contained in brief formulas are endlessly repeated by the Press, the radio, the churches, and the schools, and by those kindly, sinister beings, the North American mothers and wives. A person imprisoned by these schemes is like a plant in a flowerpot too small for it: he cannot grow or mature.»
Author: Octavio Paz
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adaptation, adaptations, American System, aspects, churches, church school, contained, endlessly, flowerpot, formulas, imprisoned, inexorable, in brief, in the north, kindly, mature, mother church, North, North A, North American, North by, radio, repeated, schemes, school system, sinister, subjected, the North, the press, to the north
«There is no dunce like a mature dunce»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Mankind
| Keywords:
dunce, dunces, mature