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I'm real impressed with the newcomers. The pitching, I'm not just impressed with their velocity but their maturity. And what I like about some of the offensive players that are here is that they have good swings. From what I've seen, we have a good chance to be a pretty good team and win some games.

I hope that those who don't get their way show some more maturity than in the past. There are people in Haiti who still need to learn that in a democracy you don't always get your way.

In all three of them, the style is pretty much the same. But Josh is more laid-back, and you have to motivate him. Blaine, you really have to coax, but that's just maturity with him. But take those two out of the lineup, and it puts a big dent in us.

I know people see it as a meltdown, ... I think it's a sign of maturity of a movement that can have a furious fight over principle.

I knew she had the potential. She works really hard and loves the game. She is going to win a lot of ball games here at Casey. The thing I am impressed with is her maturity level as a freshman. She is like a gym rat with softball. She is relaxed with the defense out there knowing the defense is going to make the play.

I?m not surprised but impressed with the level of emotional maturity out of these kids. They have all grown since last year. They?re more conscious of course management and more patient golfers.

I'm not surprised and it shows the maturity of the party. They wanted a clear nominee.

I'm hoping for some maturity and experience from my pitchers, and we've got to be more consistent on defense and eliminate the big innings for our opponents.

I like the way he runs ? he gets yards. He knows the offense. He's a lot like Carnell (Williams). He's got a little maturity about him.

I like the way he runs ­ he gets yards. He knows the offense. He's a lot like Carnell (Williams). He's got a little maturity about him.

I had a mind inquiring enough to question world events, as well as the passion fostered by my background to care, but I lacked the emotional maturity to process these things. That made me ripe for Islamist recruitment. Into this ferment came my recruiter, himself straight out of a London medical college.

In the early stages, it showed affection for the president. But now what you want is somebody with maturity and confidence who doesn't need that kind of assurance.

In my opinion, that showed maturity, ... You can live with both: You can enjoy it, and also get on the mound and do your job.

I have really changed the way I work out, ... What's come with maturity is that I've learned how to train. I have learned what works for me. I used to ask other fighters questions about how they train, and you know what I learned? I learned it's different for everybody. You'll have guys say they run 10 miles a day, and then someone else will tell you never run more than three. It's whatever floats your boat. I've learned what works for Shannon Briggs.

I haven't had to talk too much. They have been very focused. I'm really, really impressed with their maturity and how they're focused on the task at hand.

I gave most of them an opportunity and now I get a greater opportunity to further enhance their skills and maturity and to watch them develop to be even better players.

By mid-2006 we will see the first networks. This is speculative as it depends on the technological maturity of the market.

Clay has made great strides in the last year and a half in terms of maturity and his level of play. What a great honor to be named among the top amateur golfers in the nation.

Chip had to take his lumps early on. But he has kept gaining strength and maturity. Now he is able to demonstrate to others how things should be done.

I was 35 when I first hit with Star Wars. I had some degree of maturity and some degree of experience, yet physically I still looked young. That had been an impediment early on in my career, but then it turned out to be an advantage.

He stayed within himself and I thought that showed a lot of maturity to relax and do what he's practiced. He's an excellent player.

He's extremely quick and they do a good job of opening up the floor for him. He runs really hard in transition, he has the ability to get to the rim and he's got some maturity about him as a junior. He doesn't take plays off.

He's just a guy who came in and was a mature guy. He had his sights set on being the guy. And he has incredible balance and vision, but it was his maturity and focus that allowed him to do that.

He's just 18 but he's years ahead of other players his age in terms of maturity and skill.

He's really pitched very well. His first outing was dominating. He didn't get a decision, but he pitched about as well as you can pitch. The second outing, he didn't have his best stuff, but he was able to battle through it, and that's a maturity level we didn't see from him early in the season last year.

He's really made great strides in his maturity level and game knowledge. All the philosophies we've been talking about - you know, strike zone awareness, seeing more pitches, things like that - it's always up to the player to take it in and apply it to their game. He's done that, and it's a big credit to him. He's really caught on quick.

I didn't think they'd get starry-eyed. I think they're mentally tough. They know what they are, a blue-collar team. They respect all their opponents, but they don't have fear of anyone. That shows great maturity on their part.

I didn't expect him to have 40-something saves and have a shutout. He's a 20-year-old and has been in the USHL for two years and junior hockey for four years. I thought he would add maturity and competitiveness, and he showed that (Friday).

Every new experience brings its own maturity and a greater clarity of vision.

Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it's not like you're going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.

The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.

Ease and luxury, such as our affluence brings today, do not make for maturity; hardship and struggle however do.

Maturity is a compound of wisdom, goodwill, resilience, and creativity.

Certainly we have entered into a period of maturity for voice over IP with business customers.

For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the world of work, of duty, of culture, of progress -- to the future.

You must have a certain amount of maturity to be a poet. Seldom do sixteen-year-olds know themselves well enough.

The Kingdom of Hereford was unique in the Ununited Kingdoms for having driving tests based on maturity, not age, much to the chagrin of a lot of males, some of whom were still failing to make the grade at thirty-two.

Church is the textured context in which we grow up in Christ to maturity. But church is difficult. Sooner or later, though, if we are serious about growing up in Christ, we have to deal with church. I say sooner.

There are no shortcuts to spiritual maturity. It takes time to be holy.

Spiritual maturity is marked by being comfortable with the unpredictability of God.

It is a sign of maturity... to find explanations in charity.

The resurrection is not a static and an isolated event fixed in the past, but the unleashing of a power and force that takes the form of a death defying love. Resurrection is ever present, constantly accosting us, challenging us, stretching us, cracking us open and seeking to have its way with us in order that we might come to maturity in Christ.

Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.

In art them is a point of perfection, as of goodness or maturity in nature; he who is able to perceive it, and who loves it, has perfect taste; he who does not feel it, or loves on this side or that, has an imperfect taste.

Star Trek was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate, but take a special delight in differences in ideas and differences in life forms. […] If we cannot learn to actually enjoy those small differences, to take a positive delight in those small differences between our own kind, here on this planet, then we do not deserve to go out into space and meet the diversity that is almost certainly out there.

My maturity level is rising. I think there are certain situations that I'm handling better than in the past.

The stage, the screen, the novel, casual conversation, the street discussion, and too often the fireside intimacies are punctuated with blasphemy, to which may be added, as of the same nature, coarse, ribald jokes, foul stories, and low small talk. Some would have us believe that profanity is a sign of masculinity and emotion maturity.

Journeys at youth are part of the education; but at maturity, are part of the experience.

Smoking is, as far as I'm concerned, the entire point of being an adult.

The great American denial riff is that you can do whatever you like and you always triumph at the end. The world is saying no, you can do what you like, but there are consequences. And maturity is to be able to turn to the consequences and accept them.

When you've been in the business 5-years, as a person, it's like you're 5-years old - like a child. 10-years and you're 10-years old, 20... Etcetera. That's how I measure maturity in this industry.

Life is truly a ride. We're all strapped in and no one can stop it. When the doctor slaps your behind, he's ripping your ticket and away you go. As you make each passage from youth to adulthood to maturity, sometimes you put your arms up and scream, sometimes you just hang on to that bar in front of you. But the ride is the thing. I think the most you can hope for at the end of life is that your hair's messed, you're out of breath, and you didn't throw up.

I'm not ready to own a place yet. I have the money, but I don't have the maturity.

When you're younger, you don't realize you have limitations and that you are the one who has to take care of yourself. Nobody else is going to do it for you. And so, with all of that time, maturity and realizations, I'm in a much better place to be the best that I've ever been and to continue growing as a person and as an artist.

Gratitude is a sign of maturity...Where there is appreciation: there is also courtesy and concern for the rights and property of others.

It takes years and maturity to make the discovery that the power of faith is nobler than the power of doubt; and that there is a celestial wisdom in the ingenuous propensity to trust, which belongs to honest and noble natures.

One element of maturity is the realization that we don't get away with anything. Any advantage gained or convenience taken, any private procrastination or insincerity, no matter how subtle or quick in passing, is paid for.

Anything is possible in the life of a man if he lives long enough. Even maturity.

Part of the maturity of the sciences is an appreciation of which questions are best left to other disciplinary approaches.

Maturity is having the courage to use one's own intelligence!

I still want to play music but I don't want to look like Donald Duck while I'm doing it.

A woman should be an illusion

If he was an impressionable kid who didn't have a lot of maturity, it would be one thing,

I can't argue with the fact that experience is valuable. But I think you ought to factor in the maturity of a kid.

He's maturing and getting better every week. We have a lot of young players on this team. I couldn't be more pleased with how they have progressed.

He's matured as a warrior and a person, I've matured, too.

What moralists describe as the mysteries of the human heart are solely the deceiving thoughts, the spontaneous impulses of self-regard. The sudden changes in character, about which so much has been said, are instinctive calculations for the furtherance of our own pleasures. Seeing himself now in his fine clothes, his new gloves and shoes, Eugène de Rastignac forgot his noble resolve. Youth, when it swerves toward wrong, dares not look in the mirror of conscience; maturity has already seen itself there. That is the whole difference between the two phases of life.

Her character and maturity have been a big part of her success. She believes in herself and is confident in herself. She has a little bit of a swagger to her. Great players have that. It shows on the floor.

grand display of maturity that seals our stability and resilience as a nation.

We believe that all men are created equal because they are created in the image of God

You may occasionally be hurt by the sort of cavalier cruelty of commentary if you go into online forums, so there's definitely a maturity about not seeking validation from everyone, every single time.

Maturity requires a final accommodation between our aspirations and our limitations.

Maturity is when we live by the truths that are in our heart and soul, truths we believe to be right for us.

Maturity comes in three stages: dependence, independence and interdependence

Age is just a number, maturity is a choice.

I think some people in their 20s really get it, that acting is about creativity and the work. They get their maturity from their work.

You don't date an annuity, you marry it. An annuity isn't a mutual fund that you buy today and sell tomorrow. Nor is it a certificate of deposit, ready for any new use at maturity. When you buy an annuity, you are making (or ought to be making) a 15- or 20-year commitment, at least.

maturity ... is letting things happen.

Maturity is having the ability to escape categorization.

Fine #‎ wine is a living liquid ... Its life comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death.

Wine is a living liquid containing no preservatives. Its life cycle comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death. When not treated with reasonable respect it will sicken and die.

A person's readiness to date is largely a matter of maturity and environment.

One trouble with a kind of falsely therapeutic and always reassuring attitude that it is easy to fall into with old people, is the tendency to be satisfied with too little.

You'll find that marriage is a good short cut to the truth. No, not quite that. A way of doubling back to the truth. Another thing you'll find is that the years of illusion aren't those of adolescense, as the grown-ups try to tell us; they're the ones immediately after it, say the middle twenties, the false maturity if you like, when you first get thoroughly embroiled in things and lose your head. Your age, by the way, Jim. That's when you first realize that sex is important to other people besides yourself. A discovery like that can't help knocking you off balance for a time.

Maturity is the ability to live in someone else's world.

What passes for education, culture or maturity in most minds is merely how individuals want to think of themselves, a contrived egocentric self-concept, not actual and effective principles and values. This is what is known in the cliche as the "veneer" of civilization.

maturity meant thinking about risk long before you pondered the reward, and that success and happiness in life were as much about avoiding mistakes as making your mark into the world.

You know...it's a hard age. Kids are in that stage where they're beginning to understand the world of adults, without having the maturity of adults to deal with everything going on around them.

A patient willingness to defer dividends is a hallmark of individual maturity.

One of the truest tests of spiritual maturity is seeing the miraculous in the monotonous.

It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity. / No one knows what he can do till he tries.

You can't be 20 on Sugar Mountain.

The conduct and manners of women, in fact, evidently prove that their minds are not in a healthy state; for, like the flowers which are planted in too rich a soil, strenght state; usefulness are sacrificed to beauty; and the flaunting leaves, after having pleased a fastidious eye, fade, disregarded on the stalk, long before the season when they ought to have arrived at maturity.

Modesty is the graceful, calm virtue of maturity; bashfulness the charm of vivacious youth.

Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God. Some people mature into an understanding of God’s will more quickly than others because they obey more readily; they more readily sacrifice the life of nature to the will of God.

Maturity is a series of shattered illusions.

Those of us who have come to years of discretion and more, must often take to retrospect, and seek to appraise the outcome of our lives.

Adolescents need to be reassured that nothing-neither their growing maturity, their moods, their misbehavior, nor your anger at something they have done-can shake your basic commitment to them.

While she was working on Maturity, ... M. Rodin is well aware that people have imagined that he did my sculpture why then do all one can to give credence to these lies.

Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.