Erik Erikson Quotes
The playing adult steps sideward into another reality; the playing child advances forward to new stages of mastery.
Erik Erikson
Quotes to Explore
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Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.
Vernon Howard
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When you have kids, for me, it really changed me. I was always empathetic to other children, but now I'm so much more sensitive to children that aren't my own.
Sam Trammell
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Grown-ups and children are not readily encouraged to unearth the power of words. Adults are repeatedly assured a picture is worth a thousand of them, while the playground response to almost any verbal taunt is 'Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.' I don't beg so much as command to differ.
Inga Muscio
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My experience with the Junior League, when I worked in Philadelphia for four years in reference to children's things, is that whenever they were asked they responded. They always responded with sincerity, and they did a good job.
C. Everett Koop
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If the Cowboys and Titans ain't playing, I'm not interested.
Tanya Tucker
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IRENE ROSENBAUM: ...'you Americans do not rear children, you incite them; you give them food and shelter and applause'...
Randall Jarrell
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Philosophy is like a mother who gave birth to and endowed all the other sciences. Therefore, one should not scorn her in her nakedness and poverty, but should hope, rather, that part of her Don Quixote ideal will live on in her children so that they do not sink into philistinism.
Albert Einstein
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The art of natural education consists in ignoring the faults of children nine times out of ten, in avoiding immediate interference, which is usually a mistake, and devoting one's whole vigilance to the control of the environment in which the child is growing up, to watching the education which is allowed to go on by itself.
Ellen Key
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I wanted to write about women and their work, and about valuing the work we, as women, choose to do. Too many women I knew disparaged their work. Many working mothers thought they ought to be home with their children instead, so they carried around too much guilt to enjoy much job satisfaction.
Jennifer Chiaverini
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When you are caring about your children perhaps you always have to remember at what point you can become over involved because of something you need rather than something the child needs.
Frank Shorter
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Some caregivers want to reciprocate the care they themselves received as children.
Ariel Gore
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When you try to teach children things, you're trying not necessarily to do it directly.
James Bobin
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We don't care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.
Bill Moyers
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It was always my practice to train salespeople under my direct supervision, and to treat children with the utmost consideration.
James Cash Penney
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There is nothing more important than developing your imagination to transform your life from the inside world of your thoughts and feelings to the outside world of your results and manifestations.
Neville Goddard
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Antiphon, as another man gets pleasure from a good horse, or a dog, or a bird, I get even more pleasure from good friends. And if I have something good, I teach it to them, and I introduce them to others who will be useful to them with respect to virtue. And together with my friends I go through the treasures of wise men of old which they left behind written in books, and we peruse them. If we see something good, we pick it out and hold it to be a great profit, if we are able to prove useful to one another.
Socrates
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If an individual agrees with everybody, he lacks conviction; if he likes everybody and is everybody's friend, he is indifferent to one and all.
Nikolay Dobrolyubov
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The playing adult steps sideward into another reality; the playing child advances forward to new stages of mastery.
Erik Erikson
