Erik Erikson Quotes

The playing adult steps sideward into another reality; the playing child advances forward to new stages of mastery.

Erik Erikson

• Children
• Imagination
• Playing
• Mastery

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• Around a third of parents still worry that they will look like a bad mother or father if their child has a mental health problem. Parenting is hard enough without letting prejudices stop us from asking for the help we need for ourselves and our children.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Children
  • Bad
  • Help

• Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Character
  • Imagination
  • Witty

• In my early teens, science fiction and fantasy had an almost-total hold over my imagination. Their outcast status was part of their appeal.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • Science
  • Imagination
  • Early

• Children have adopted a consumerist attitude - I dare you to entertain me.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Children
  • Me
  • Attitude

• It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • People
  • Children
  • True

• The Grimm collections were never intended for children. Not because kids were excluded, but because the division we make today of children's literature didn't exist then. The idea of protecting children from tales with violence didn't occur until the earlier part of the 19th century.

  

  Jack Zipes
  • Children
  • Kids
  • Today

• Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Imagination
  • Learn
  • See

• 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
  • Children
  • May
  • Power

• 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
  • Good
  • Children
  • Job

• If the Cowboys and Titans ain't playing, I'm not interested.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • Playing
  • Not Interested

• IRENE ROSENBAUM: ...'you Americans do not rear children, you incite them; you give them food and shelter and applause'...

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Children
  • Food

• 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
  • Children
  • Poverty
  • Philosophy

• 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
  • Up
  • Children
  • Art

• 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
  • Work
  • Women
  • Children

• 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
  • Children
  • Remember
  • Caring

• Some caregivers want to reciprocate the care they themselves received as children.

  

  Ariel Gore
  • Children

• When you try to teach children things, you're trying not necessarily to do it directly.

  

  James Bobin
  • Children
  • Trying

• We don't care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.

  

  Bill Moyers
  • Children
  • Society

• I don't like to photograph children as children. I like to see them as adults, as who they really are. I'm always looking for the side of who they might become.

  

  Mary Ellen Mark
  • Children

• An essay is a thing of the imagination. If there is information in an essay, it is by-the-by, and if there is an opinion, one need not trust it for the long run. A genuine essay rarely has an educational, polemical, or sociopolitical use; it is the movement of a free mind at play.

  

  Cynthia Ozick
  • Long
  • Mind
  • Free

• Lately, I can't shake the feeling that I've been living a dream for the last 10 years or so; I can't account for most of my 20s, and I have to continually remind myself that certain people are dead now and many of my friends have children.

  

  Chris Ware
  • People
  • Children
  • Friends

• Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms and banyans - which is nourished on books of travel, and stretches the theatre of its imagination to the Zambesi.

  

  George Eliot
  • Imagination
  • Travel
  • Runs

• Perhaps the way with any obsession is to ignore it simply. Not to fight it, since it draws strength from any contact with us, whether hostile or friendly.

  

  Nan Fairbrother
  • Way
  • Ignore
  • Obsession

• The playing adult steps sideward into another reality; the playing child advances forward to new stages of mastery.

  

  Erik Erikson
  • Children
  • Imagination
  • Playing