Alexei Panshin Quotes
Maturity is the ability to sort the portions of truth from the accepted lies and self-deceptions that you have grown up with.
Quotes to Explore
-
For me, I don't participate in the filming when I represent a reality show star in a case, because that would mean waiving my right to attorney – client privilege, and that would hamper my ability to mount an effective case.
-
When your maturity is derived from circumstantial factors other than faith, your level of maturity would continue to fluctuate rather than being stable. This is why I am enabled to maintain a balance and stable approach to the challenges that come my way every day. I am not moved by what people say or do concerning my relationship with God.
-
If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.
-
Yogurt sauce, as you may have noticed by now, is a regular presence in my recipes - that's because it has the ability to round up so many flavours and textures like no other component does.
-
The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him.
-
The bowlers I respected or feared or rated were not the ones who gave me lip or stared at me or abused me. More the ones who, at any stage of the game, when had they had the ball in hand, they were going to be at me, and they were going to have the skill and the fitness and the ability to be aggressive.
-
I have a great ability to improvise verbally, and I am very funny on a dime.
-
The hardest part about this business is accepting the back end with the same love that you accepted the front end.
-
No man could have accepted me because I am too rebellious. It would have been catastrophe. I am too into my own thing.
-
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
-
Life is a vexatious trap; when a thinking man reaches maturity and attains to full consciousness he cannot help feeling that he is in a trap from which there is no escape.
-
The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity.
-
A strong sense of humor, a really awesome personality, and maturity is also really important in a boyfriend. I tend to only be attracted to older guys for that reason. I just love guys who have a really strong sense of who they are.
-
I was involved, deeply involved, in a deception... I have deceived my friends - and I had millions of them.
-
We need to increase the transparency of shadow banking markets so that authorities can monitor for signs of excessive leverage and unstable maturity transformation outside regulated banks.
-
I pray to God that I shall not live one hour after I have thought of using deception.
-
The Cold War had become a battlefield marked by doublespeak. Disguise, distortion, and deception were accepted as reality. Truth was promised in a serum.
-
The essence of football was blocking, tackling, and execution based on timing, rhythm and deception.
-
In all of history, we have found just one cure for error-a partial antidote against making and repeating grand, foolish mistakes, a remedy against self-deception. That antidote is criticism.
-
Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.
-
Too many Americans mistrust their government. And unnecessary government secrecy feeds this mistrust.
-
Maturity is the ability to sort the portions of truth from the accepted lies and self-deceptions that you have grown up with.
