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I foresee the time when industry shall no longer denude the forests which require generations to mature, nor use up the mines which were ages in the making, but shall draw its materials largely from the annual produce of the fields.

Henry Ford

An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.

Alfred North Whitehead

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

Henri Bergson

We need to mature and grow up.

Chuck Mcbreen

The kids have come out with a mature approach and bought into some of the new things we're doing. When you work on something you haven't done, you have to expect that it will work.

Mike Godfrey

What happened here last year was not good for me, ... But I now have more experience and am more mature. I worked a lot after my disqualification, and I think I learned a lot.

Richard Gasquet

(Almost) everybody is of age, ... When the Scream Tour started we were 14 or 15. Bow (Wow) was, like, 13. It's become a really mature, young adult tour.

Omarion

The thing I think Lucas has is that calm poise and mature demeanor about him and he makes everyone around him better.

Justin Young

It's a much more attractive market than the U.S. -- the growth of Internet commerce is less mature and Europeans love to travel. They have more vacation time.

Jeff Boyd

I don't know if it's when they're young they don't know any better, and you hope they don't ever know any better. She is really mature in a basketball sense. She knows she needs to take it to the hole.

Tina Gaughan

The Java services are not quite mature enough for full EAI, ... This technology is going to be essential, and companies will want it in-house.

Shawn Willett

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.

Wilhelm Stekel

This time last year I was that dirty on the world because I believe that although she wasn't a mature horse she should have arguably won the race.

Peter Moody

Chad has a great arm, and he is very good at reading pitchers. He has worked very hard, and is very baseball mature.

Paul Cochran

We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.

W. Somerset Maugham

The M&A revival is truly a global phenomenon, and it's not just driven by the developed markets like the U.S.. In parts of Europe - Germany and Central and Eastern Europe - there are areas that are not so mature.

Peter Charlton

This is huge growth rate, especially for this mature phase of the business cycle. We just can't sustain this kind of growth, given the limited resources that are available, very long.

Richard Rippe

She's been very much more mature and trained very hard. Tonight was a good start. It was a very good start. But it was only a start.

John Nicks

He's such a mature kid. He didn't look worried back there.

Walt Peretti

If your parents think ? or you've persuaded them ? that you're mature enough, then be mature enough.

Janet Bodnar

It will take awhile to know if the mature technology that comes out of the working group will have a lot of support.

Scott Bradner

It's something mature, something sophisticated.

David Morrison

I think Terry handled it very well. He's a very mature young man, and he never got frustrated with it. Some players let it get to them.

Teddy Dyess

It's being more mature and not kind of playing street ball or throwing it around or being careless with it. That's a good sign.

Ann Strother

He's extremely mature for his age, and looks 15 or 16.

Linda Walker

When a mature and able manager feels bored, he should seriously consider changing jobs, changing companies or simply retiring. It is not fair to anyone for half a leader to hold a full-time leadership job.

James L. Hayes

Everybody feels like we're a lot better. Older, more mature. Little stuff -- like signs -- I feel we're so much better at.

Brandon Hall

The only chance we have [tonight] is if we execute to perfection. They're more mature and stronger, but I believe any game is a winnable game.

Jason Montgomery

Somebody needs to check her birth certificate, but she is a very mature young lady. It's not just basketball. She had a 4.0 grade point average in her first semester. Most freshmen don't do that. She's very even keel. She doesn't get too high or too low.

Ron Rohn

Vodafone stands out over fellow 3G operators in mature markets.

Phil Kendall

She's the oldest one, she's the most mature, she's the smartest. She's just Jessica, you know, J-Mac.

Claire Coggins

She is very mature for her age and a great part of this program. She is a senior and a leader.

Josh Blaisdell

He's just a more mature person.

Craig Parker

Everyone on the defense trusts the guy next to him to do his job. We?re a more mature group this season.

Anthony Fusco

This is a more mature album for us. It's our second album out, and we want to be more grown-up. This record is sort of a coming-of-age. It's more about being 26 than 20 or 21.

Sean Mackin

I've seen him grown into someone who's a very down-to-earth kid and someone who can be counted on. He's a very mature student, very committed to success.

Justin Hubly

The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals.

Lionel Trilling

He's mature beyond his years, and he's only going to get better.

Jeff Turner

Canada is a more mature market. Here, we can be all about speed and quality, and look to differentiate products in a way that creates new value.

Iain Grant

I see him a lot more mature, a lot more poised and mature with the puck, too.

Dave Baseggio

The American male doesn't mature until he has exhausted all other possibilities.

Wilfrid Sheed

I think it's moving forward, I love to see designers mature and I think they did a great job. We know that they can do denim, so it was nice to see them do something else.

Phillip Bloch

It feels like I have become a child again and now must grow to be a mature adult.

Chanratanak Keo

This will challenge our maturity and how focused we come out as a team. It's going to be an exciting one and I think it will challenge us to see if we're mature enough to put that loss behind us and win as a team.

Jasmine Walker

What we'd discovered is she is mature far beyond her years. She's traveled her whole life and has a worldview. We learned she has great drive and discipline. We learned she was kind of fearless.

Sarah Green

He was a very strict disciplinarian. You learned to accept responsibility from him, and I think he really helped a lot of people in growing up. He helped us mature a little bit along the way.

Jimmy Jackson

The best thing that happened for most of these rookies is the lockout. They got another year to mature away from the NHL. ... It made a huge difference for all of them.

Pierre Maguire

We're just a completely different team than at the beginning of the year, and far more mature.

Paul Spear

It's a 60-minute game and there are going to be ups and downs along the way and what you have to do is respond when there are a couple of goals against you. We have a mature group and it's our senior leadership that makes it happen.

Tom Mccabe

It's very intense. You just have to be prepared and don't look ahead. But our players are very mature about it. They stay focused.

Jamie Mahaffey

Even though we feel the company is executing on its business plan, we believe that given the more mature stage of ISS (Internet Security), significant acceleration of growth is a big challenge.

Desean Jackson

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.

Greg Schiano

He played very well. He's made some mistakes in situations like that, though these big games we've played has helped him mature.

Bob Walkley

To grow mature is to separate more distinctly, to connect more closely.

Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

Over the longer term I expect our gross margins will benefit as these products mature and installation cycles shorten.

Tim Guertin

To be mature means to face, and not evade, every fresh crisis that comes.

Fritz Kunkel

We have guys ahead of where you want them to be and are so mature.

Tim Thornton

We love having the bulls-eye on our back and being a top team. We're getting more mature and the guys are sticking together. Something good's going to happen with this team.

Joey Dorsey

To get to those last few barrels out there is more expensive than the easy ones. They're all looking for the giant fields because mature fields are declining.

Jeremy Le Sueur

In terms of basketball experience, they're a mature group.

Jeff Beers

We knew he would be a good player. We just didn't know how quickly he would make the transition. He's very mature for his age. That's why he's been able to make the transition as quickly as he has.

Mark Marquess

We've been ready since last year, but we weren't mature, now we're mature enough to get a state berth.

Asa Rankins

They are very capable, very mature. Their desire to succeed is every bit what it was for our generation and our parents' generation.

Tom O'hare

We came out like a mature, experienced team that has come together and learned how to play.

Fred Sosnoski

Some investors say Wal-Mart has become mature. We believe Wal-Mart became stale. We anticipate that a new air of freshness will be evident soon. That's what we expect from Castro-Wright's leadership.

Bernard Sosnick

He's definitely a mature young man. He's done a nice job adapting to the offense.

Jeff Genyk

A lot of guys got a chance to mature and start to understand what it is they're doing.

Tom Dexter

It's huge what these kids have accomplished. God gets the glory and they get every bit of the credit. They have done a great job of buying into the system and wanting to win. Our five seniors are extremely mature. Even when they came in as sophomores, they were mature.

Clay Norton

What happens is anything that becomes too 'in' eventually becomes sort of 'out,' so you have Gap as a very stale, mature concept.

Donald Trott

I will miss being involved in the daily happening of young people and having the opportunity to see them mature.

Diane Johnson

He's mature beyond his years.

Junior Seau

They were very mature when it came to understanding the game and having that discipline and being able to keep their composure under pressure.

Tonia Young

He's been the best player I have ever coached because he can do so many different things. He?s very well-grounded and understands the game. You can't really rattle him. He's always acted the same way from the time he was a freshman until now. He has been very mature for his age and that has helped him.

Tony Gray

For what is hairy is by nature drier and warmer than what is bare; therefore, the male is hairier and more warm blooded than the female; the uncastrated, than the castrated; the mature than the immature.

Clement Of Alexandria

Cheney, without a doubt, is this administration's best spokesperson on the issues ... They see him as an elder statesman, as someone who's older and mature, like a father figure.

Armstrong Williams

It made me mature a lot faster than I probably should have. I think I see things in a different perspective than most teen-agers.

Lauren Boardman

I was scared of her. She looked so attractive and beautiful and mature.

Frank Berndt

I think we're mature enough to move on.

Mike Scott

He was just so mature about it. I use that same system for all my players now.

Jack Agostino

I think this company will do a better job of inventory management as these businesses mature, ... Remember, they've only been in some of them for six months or so.

Tom Courtney

This time around, I think our kids are a little bit more mature, a little bit bigger and stronger. With the level of leadership we have, I expect us to be more relaxed.

Dave Hollenbeck

He's very mature for his age, a quick thinker and quick to act.

Dan Curtis

That was a mature, smooth, professional and comfortable performance.

Farley Flex

It's a bold decision to run in the Classic, but one I totally agree with. He's a fully mature, street-wise horse, and if you didn't try the Classic with a horse like him, you'd never try it.

Luca Cumani

She came in here more mature than most freshman. She was always on time. That's the thing I remember the most. If she said she would call at 2 p.m., then she would call at 2 p.m.

Rhonda Rompola

It was a surprise. CRM is a mature industry; the people in it are pragmatic, so there shouldn't be a lot of surprises.

William Band

She was impressive: articulate, poised and mature. I never got the idea she wielded a lot of influence.

Dennis Jett

Gavin is a very smart, mature kid. I always tell him, 'You know your body more than I do.' He's well aware that there's a plan in place.

Leo Fletes

He's being very mature and realistic about it, and I think he has to be. Surely the goal is getting him back fit for the Ashes, and he's in good hands and working hard to get there.

David Byas

Not that being so mature is a bad thing, but there are times to be mature and there are times to be loose.

David Gallagher

Sometimes we play around too much, but we're learning to be more mature and we have to stay focused if we want to make it all the way. We're not done yet.

Devron Bostick

The idea that the digital camera is mature is, I believe, a naive view. We are just in the early days of what a processor behind a lens can do.

Mark Cook

When you have the chance to dance a piece for some years, it's like a child that's grown up. You have many feelings inside -- not only pride, but also the responsibility to make something more mature.

Luz Urdaneta

The U.S. biotech industry started earlier, and it's just relatively more mature, ... There are now some very grown-up U.S. companies with multibillion dollar market caps. Europe has started later.

Andrew Baum

He's very confident. He's mature for his years. He's poised, he's confident. He was very good.

Steve Heiden

That makes us more comfortable with mature processes.

Paul Franklin

I'm a lot more mature, definitely.

Fefe Dobson

I'm very mature for my age, but I'm also innocent in a lot of ways.

Kirsten Dunst

Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.

Paul Simon

Daniel's going to be successful in whatever he does, because he works hard and he's very mature in how he acts and does things. I'm obviously a huge Daniel Freeman fan.

Dean Keener

It's a relatively mature market. Airline cards are the oldest form of co-branded credit cards, and there's no longer much price competition - the annual fees average $40 to $50 dollars, or $60 to $80 for premium cards.

Jim Shanahan

We were good (after the first inning). It was good to see they were mature enough to settle down and play.

Ron Whitehurst

People's knowledge on PE fund has been widened over the past decade and the environment to run PE fund in China is getting mature.

Cheng Siwei

We're too old and too mature to fight. Fighting's not necessary.

Brian Ritchie

Ever since our sophomore year, our goal has been to go to state. And now we're so much more mature. We don't just want to get there, we want to win.

Dani Quinn

The digital camera market has started to become mature.

Hisashi Moriyama

We believe the open source business applications do not have enough time to mature before this consolidation wave hits.

Peter Graf

I might not have been mature enough to handle it. I think I'm a lot more focused now and that helps me be a better leader.

Jason Jacobs

I'm sure every team has about three or four pages of at-bats on him. His last two at-bats were very mature at-bats.

Scott Winton

It's a natural step for the country to gradually widen the trading band. Conditions in China are mature enough for this to happen.

Ha Jiming

The futures would be risky at this time as the domestic economic and judicial environment is not mature.

Qi Xiangdong

The immature man wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mature man wants to live humanely for one.

Wilhelm Stekel

Most men do not mature, they simply grow taller.

Leo Rosten

Most of them really are fourth- and fifth-graders. But some of them look very mature.

Tina Carter

He just doesn't get rattled. He wrestles much more mature than his age. He stays calm and consistent. That's a big positive.

Andy Kerley

These kids were so bright and mature. They had been hand picked by their teachers and were such a help to us.

Kay Scruggs

AutoZone's retail market for auto parts is already quite mature. So it's really difficult to improve business in that segment.

Alan Rifkin

A lot happier, a lot more mature.

John Batchelor

There was a little doubt last year. He's just more mature and more confident this year.

Darren Testa

We think the market is near the mature phase of its current three-year ascent.

Lim Jit Soon

He's really mature, a lot more mature than most people think. I think every situation he stepped into, he's handled everything very well. I don't see anything changing.

Carlos Boozer

She was very frustrated. But very early on she articulated both to me and to the team that she was frustrated, but, 'So what. That's what I have and there's nothing I can do about it so I'm going to do what I can instead of play.' She had a very mature approach.

Kevin Morooney

The mature market, U.S. and Europe, is not saturated. They give us a healthy rate of growth each year.

Keith Budge

I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.

Nanci Griffith

The judges really thought it was a mature composition.

Ryan Burley

IT takes time for a fruit to mature and acquire sweetness and become eatable; time is a prime factor for most good fortunes.

Atharva Veda

He was talking about driver's licenses and he was going to be more mature when he turned 16.

Sonya Pace

For many years, Mexico was not a desirable place for investors because it was very reactionary to political ups and downs. But now both domestic and foreign investors are more mature.

Javier Viveros

Like every freshman entering college, he's going to have to mature. He's going to be in battles every day.

Ron King

All new technologies go through the same hassles before they are mature and stable.

Dave Carini

Andy Hull was 17 the first time I saw Manchester Orchestra play. His songwriting was way more intelligent and mature than I would expect from someone his age.

Joe Kirk

These are unusually mature, complex characters. They do bad things for their own reasons, but that doesn't make them morally bad. In fact your heart breaks for these people.

Anna Paquin

The joint venture puts us in a clear cost-leadership position in a mature market.

Gerard Kleisterlee

The good thing about Rebecca is that she's mature. She's a little bit older as a senior and that helps.

John Fuchs

I'm a firm believer in doing the little things right. We're not as mature as we need to be. We need to be mature as a group. I think our big thing is that we are going to get better.

Kenny Walker

We're not mature enough yet. But to be 7-4 [with our strong] schedule ... speaks an awful lot about our players.

Jerry Wainwright

Colin?s a mature freshman now. I was more impressed with his defense in this game.

Kurt Stellfox

The past year has been one of outrageous growth for the Internet, and it's not only become bigger, but better... more substantial and more mature.

Tiffany Shlain

You could see the change in them when they got together. They were acting more mature. They were happier.

Ronald White

They're very mature for as young as they are, ... Even though most of them are freshman, they probably have more tournament experience than most of the kids they'll be playing against.

Scott Richardson

Ray is a mature young man. You can talk to him like a man and he listens. And there's competition. Competition always keeps everyone's head on straight.

Greg Schiano

The Netherlands is really a mature market.

Rijkman Groenink

This is a mature football team.

Dale Lennon

Sales growth should compare less favorably with peers. The brand has now reached a mature stage of development.

Antoine Belge

People grow and mature as human beings, and the same is true for musicians.

Steve Richards

It's the middle level that is hard. We're not a mature enough industry to have grown up enough people to the midlevel.

Sarah Fay

The [transactional printing] market is a mature market. Some of the key growth markets are in newer applications such as direct mailings and book printing.

Andy Gordon

They are really mature and know how to train really hard.

Hilary Witt

The corporate PC market is increasingly mature, and Microsoft has a dominant share of that market, so they are running out of room to grow faster than the market.

Drew Brosseau

This is a place where you want mature adults to come and not force-feed that.

Margaret Gillett

Immature love says, 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says, 'I need you because I love you.'

Erich Fromm

He's really gone to the next level, he's much more mature and he's blocking a lot better.

Lane Kiffin

I'm more serious about the job. I think Jack needs to mature a little more, honestly.

Will Thomas

Playing at UMPI has been a gift. It's helped our program, helped us mature, and helped our spirit.

Vaughn Farrar

The thing I like about coaching is that I love to see kids in a different light. You get to see them mature into nice adults.

Pat Somers

As we mature spiritually, we exhibit a growing capacity to care for and appreciate one another in the body of Christ, regardless of our differences.

Joseph Stowell

In a time of intractable crisis like this, we have the king to look to, but ideally we should try to solve our problems ourselves to mature as a democracy.

Thitinan Pongsudhirak

Tony had a message to deliver to us and he did it in a very mature, rational way. He's a two-time champion. When he comes to us, we're going to listen to him.

Jim Hunter

They've grown up quite a bit, ... When you live at home, you let mom and dad do everything. They've become more mature and responsible. They take care of their own things instead of relying on us to do it.

John Edward

It depends on how he comes in and adapts, ... We have a history here and don't like to rush kids. We like to let them mature at their own pace. This will be his first training camp. Some, they're like a deer caught in the headlights. Others come in and grab the bull by the horn.

Jim Nill

If we feel they're mature enough, we may allow them to hold onto the stick.

Peter Hunt

Meredith and Jessy played at a level much higher than anytime last season. They were much more mature and reliable.

Mike Hebert

We find mature animals to be ideal pets. They usually work well because they are less excitable, and they make great companions.

Sara Labberton

Jake has been working hard and that's just a lot of hard work that paid off for him. Jake is very mature for his age, but he has a lot of fun out there.

Rusty Robinett

He has to be more mature dealing with certain situations and dealing with his teammates. He's got to learn to control his anger.

Brian Jordan

With computer games we're sort of heading into a new area here. Entertainment is getting more sophisticated, we can have actors now, (and) story lines can be of a more mature subject matter.

Roberta Williams

We're just waiting for the [telephony] technology to mature.

Neil Hennessy

Combine it all, and it could be tougher to find a lot of legal mature gobblers to chase.

James Austin

We have to be disciplined and focused. Now we know what to expect pressure-wise and hopefully they're a little bit more mature. They just have to play.

Kathleen Sinram

He's 18, but he looks, the way he's built, like he's 27 or 28. And he doesn't act like a kid. He's very mature for his age.

Chauncey Billups

The more the leaders of Kosovo can reach out to the other communities and show that Kosovo is a mature democracy, the more fully an independence can be delivered.

John Sawers

Between the junior and senior year you see kids mature a great deal, socially and emotionally. These are kids.

Anthony Menard

She will be successful with everything. Because Jessica is competitive at everything, from school to sports. And she is mature, determined and she doesn't give up.

Rachel Boswell

She's a very mature filly and she's coming into her own now. She's a stronger, smarter, calmer filly than she was last year.

David Hofmans

He is playing real consistent. He's very mature for his age, and the biggest thing right now is he's playing with more confidence than anyone else.

Todd Niehaus

They're proving that they're very mature and great leaders and I don't think there was any doubt in my mind before. If there was doubt, there certainly is not anymore.

Dan Connelly

As traditional hedge fund investment styles in mature markets become more crowded, we are expanding internationally and into more asset classes.

Daniel Stern

We're talking about six acres with mature trees. You just can't buy trees like that. The city is basically getting a multimillion-dollar chunk of land returned to it.

Shane Smith

He is mature beyond his years. He's a very smart kid.

Greg Schneider

It was a major change of life from facing no responsibilities to becoming more mature and responsible.

Rodolfo Valdes

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

W. Somerset Maugham

Lindsey and Jacquie are really mature personalities. Not just basketball-wise, either. They really keep it together.

Kathy Fedorjaka

They coach their quarterbacks as well as anyone in the country. That's just a given at William and Mary. They have a special touch to grow and mature quarterbacks.

Tim Stowers

I ran out an eighth-grader at 152 and a brand new kid at 160 with Joe being out now with the hip. They were just physical, a lot more mature and stronger (than) us.

Jim Maher

The pictures are really interesting, ... As you look at them, you recognize areas, yet you don't recognize them. There are mature trees in one area or the building of new structure in another area.

Eric Hansen

It's a big responsibility because they expect you to be mature.

Emily Shore

The marketplace for digital still cameras is starting to mature.

Fred Lee