Erik Erikson Quotes
In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity.
Quotes to Explore
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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.
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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.
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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.
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I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.
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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.
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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.
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All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
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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.
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Growing up, my religious identity was primarily one of confusion. Nothing was pushed on me; nothing was overtly offered.
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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.
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Human identity is the most fragile thing that we have, and it's often only found in moments of truth.
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I definitely, when I was younger, struggled a little to understand my identity and who I wanted to be.
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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.
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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.
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For rich children, it'd be very easy and convenient never to take any steps to build an identity outside of your association with your family's wealth.
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When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death.
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The front of a cheque alone gives someone enough information to steal your identity.
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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.
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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.
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Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.
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I learned how to draw from being bored in school. I would doodle on the margins of my paper.
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In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity.
