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

• 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

• 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

• Poetry can do a lot of things to people. I mean it can improve your imagination. It can take you to new places. It can give you this incredible form of verbal pleasure.

  

  Billy Collins
  • People
  • Imagination
  • Poetry

• I believe that we should, on biblical grounds, tell all parents of mentally disabled children that God loves their children, regrets terribly that they are disabled, and will, when they die, carry them gently into a heavenly life where every person is forever whole.

  

  Lewis B. Smedes
  • Life
  • God
  • Believe

• Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out of the common road by the quickness of their imagination.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Business
  • Imagination
  • Management

• I'd like to think that every captain around the world has a vision of how they want their teams to play and most of them are allowed to take their teams forward in their own way.

  

  Kevin Pietersen
  • World
  • Vision

• I think jazz is a phenomenal creative force, because it's one man, one vote as you're playing, but it's a collective thing, what you're doing. You're listening to all the musicians around you and you're working within that structure.

  

  Herb Alpert
  • Listening
  • Creative
  • Musician

• I'm much more attracted personally to governments going their full term. It's very hard to have a fixed term election I know with ah... a parliamentary democracy, but I've always had an instinct to say there should be a fixed term.

  

  Jim Bolger
  • Democracy

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

  

  Erik Erikson
  • Children
  • Imagination
  • Playing