Erik Erikson Quotes

There is in every child at every stage a new miracle of vigorous unfolding.

Erik Erikson

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• New Year's Eve, we're going to be doing a concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Symphony Hall. It makes me feel good, because of all the people they could have had, they wanted me! We do have to do a little work with the rhythm section.

  

  Barbara Cook
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

  

  Karl Marx
  • World
  • Him
  • Object

• Working with kids can be tricky because they can be pretty unpredictable.

  

  Laetitia Casta
  • Kids
  • Pretty
  • Working

• For some people, miracles serve as evidence of God's existence.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • People
  • God
  • Miracles

• I've become the hunted. I'm enjoying that. It's better to be the hunted than the hunter.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Better
  • Become
  • Hunter

• Rehab is endlessly repetitive. And it's never easy, because once you've mastered some movement or action or word, no matter how small, you move on to the next. You never rest.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Small
  • Action
  • Rest

• The hardest thing about writing, for me, is facing the blank page.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Writing
  • Me
  • Page

• Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Believe
  • Success
  • Goals

• We watch so much film, calling up pitch by pitch, count by count in order to spot tendencies. Technology is a big part of how I get ready for a game. What's funny is a lot of the NFL guys say they study the 'Madden' game; that's how they learn to read offenses and defenses.

  

  Carl Crawford
  • Up
  • Game
  • Funny

• I was wired to be intense. I don't think that's ever going to change.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Think
  • Change
  • Ever

• It is not infrequent to hear men declaim loudly upon liberty, who, if we may judge by the whole tenor of their actions, mean nothing else by it but their own liberty - to oppress without control, or the restraint of laws, all who are poorer and weaker than themselves.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Men
  • May
  • Control

• Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Up
  • Time
  • Success

• It was kind of scary because working with Woody Allen becomes sort of a big deal in your mind. He directs in that Woody Allen character some of the time - he has these idiosyncrasies that are really charming and funny.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Character

• I've discovered all kinds of music and done all kinds of music over the past 40 years, from playing tango with Piazzolla to all the different bands I've had.

  

  Gary Burton
  • Music
  • Different
  • Done

• There are games where I go a whole game without saying a word. There are games where I'm talking the whole game. It really depends on the mood and vibe that I'm in that day.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Game
  • Day
  • Mood

• Universal orthodoxy is enriched by every new discovery of truth: what at first appeared universal, by wishing to stand still, sooner or later becomes a sect.

  

  Edgar Quinet
  • Truth
  • Stand
  • Discovery

• I was blessed with a good character in 'Hollyoaks,' and I cut my teeth in 'Brookside' as well.

  

  Barry Sloane
  • Good
  • Character
  • Blessed

• I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. That's what I hate about all this technology.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Hate

• For thogh we slepe, or wake, or rome, or ryde, Ay fleeth the tyme; it nyl no man abyde.

  

  Geoffrey Chaucer

• Initially, there were a lot of fears that Ebola could mutate to become the airborne Andromeda strain that would wipe us all out.

  

  Richard Preston
  • Become
  • Wipe
  • Initially

• You can wear your hair long or wear a beard because you want to show that you are interested in thought, in psychological endeavors rather than appearance.

  

  Emilio Pucci
  • Long
  • Hair
  • Appearance

• So, the first thing we should introspect - are we concerned about ourselves ? All the time do we think that we are suffering, we have this problem, that problem, or this should be done, that should be done. If the attention is on that, that all the time you are worried about yourself, then you cannot break, you cannot break through this shell of your being which is under the domination of your mental selfishness or self centeredness.

  

  Nirmala Srivastava
  • Thinking
  • Love
  • Wisdom

• When a director is also a writer, everyone on the production looks to him, knowing he gave birth to the idea. There's a different level of viability.

  

  Peter Landesman
  • Different

• There is in every child at every stage a new miracle of vigorous unfolding.

  

  Erik Erikson
  • Development
  • Psychology
  • Unfolding