Erik Erikson Quotes

In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity.

Erik Erikson

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• If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.

  

  Uta Hagen
  • Want
  • Actor
  • Existence

• In some sense, when you take a child soldier out of an armed group, you've taken away the identity he or she has had for years, and you can't assume life is just going to return to normal.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Life
  • Taken
  • Child

• By the time we enter this work world and we're breadwinners, we enter a world that's just cluttered with spam, fake, digital friends, partisan media, ingenious identity thieves, world-class Ponzi schemers - a deception epidemic.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Time
  • World
  • Work

• I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.

  

  Man Ray
  • Wish
  • Existence
  • Paint

• I'm laughing because I know the secret of life. And the secret of life is that I have validated my existence. I know that I am worth more than my house, my bank account, or any physical thing.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Life
  • Secret
  • Existence

• By dismantling the narrow politics of racial identity and selective self-interest, by going beyond 'black' and 'white,' we may construct new values, new institutions and new visions of an America beyond traditional racial categories and racial oppression.

  

  Manning Marable
  • May
  • America
  • Black

• All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Why
  • Existence
  • Behavior

• I always think about race as a part of one's identity, not the whole of one's identity. You don't want it to be the defining characteristic of a character. There has to be more.

  

  Jenny Han
  • Character
  • Identity

• Growing up, my religious identity was primarily one of confusion. Nothing was pushed on me; nothing was overtly offered.

  

  Andy Dunn
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Religious

• It's something I've enjoyed since being a kid, the fantasy of it, the imagining I'm someone other than who I am. I've always felt claustrophobic in one sense of identity. If anything, I've had to work to develop a sense of my own identity. I used to really hate it when people defined me.

  

  Mark Rylance
  • People
  • Work
  • Hate

• Human identity is the most fragile thing that we have, and it's often only found in moments of truth.

  

  Alan Rudolph
  • Truth
  • Moments
  • Identity

• I definitely, when I was younger, struggled a little to understand my identity and who I wanted to be.

  

  Chloe Kim
  • Identity

• I don't know how, at an age when you're trying to put your identity together, how you cope with the pressure of a performance space, which is what social media is.

  

  Charlie Brooker
  • Trying
  • Together
  • Age

• There's two identity markers I'm sure of, and one is, I'm Jewish. And the other is, I'm a writer. There's just no arguing with either thing. I'm just Jewish.

  

  Ariel Levy
  • Identity

• When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death.

  

  Dennis Quaid
  • Up
  • Death
  • Identity

• The front of a cheque alone gives someone enough information to steal your identity.

  

  Frank Abagnale
  • Alone
  • Identity

• I love what I do, and I find personal joy through my work at Harman. My identity is who I am and what I do.

  

  Dinesh Paliwal
  • Work
  • Joy
  • Identity

• My identity has everything to do with me and my instrument. It doesn't have to do with what production style I use, or how many people played on it, whether it's sparse or grandiose or whatever. And I'm social, frankly.

  

  Liz Phair
  • People
  • Style
  • Identity

• I think, as a skater, I started out really strongly, and as I have grown in the public eye, I have had my rough seasons that most people don't get as much attention for.

  

  Mirai Nagasu
  • Attention
  • Seasons
  • Public Eye

• Don't let the door hit you where the good Lord split you.

  

  Mikhail Prokhorov
  • Lord
  • Doors
  • Splits

• I'm not sure if Cupitt himself still uses this term, but it's useful in suggesting that, actually, there are more choices than the choice between nihilism and faith. In fact, the issue may not be faith as such but the fact that for millennia, Christianity has buttressed itself with a particular kind of metaphysics that has now seemingly reached the end of its life-span. But perhaps Buddhist metaphysics could provide an alternative here - or, at least, offer a direction of travel.

  

  George Pattison
  • Faith
  • Travel
  • Term

• In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity.

  

  Erik Erikson
  • Identity
  • Humans
  • Existence