Erik Erikson Quotes
You see a child play, and it is so close to seeing an artist paint, for in play a child says things without uttering a word. You can see how he solves his problems. You can also see what's wrong. Young children, especially, have enormous creativity, and whatever's in them rises to the surface in free play.
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.
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Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist. What they ignore is that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 1966.
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From that time on, I always had the studios on my neck.
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Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
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I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
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Anything where I get to write a lot of jokes and have a lot of creative control - that's all I want.
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Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
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Our lives are in God's hands. We have no control. We can't control Him by using the Bible or cross as a good luck charm without a thorough reformation of heart and life.
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I learnt circus skills in drama group, so I can juggle.
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A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.
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Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
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When people see the Cubevision logo, they should know it's something good, something worth checking out.
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There are a lot of other things in this world that can and will bring me joy. Acting is one of them.
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I was originally going to train as a journalist, passing a series of exams that winnowed ten thousand applicants down to one hundred places on a National Union of Journalists course.
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All too often, a successful new business model becomes the business model for companies not creative enough to invent their own.
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That darksome cave they enter, where they find That cursed man, low sitting on the ground, Musing full sadly in his sullein mind.
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An aristocrat in morals as in mind.
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People who barely know the two of you assume you are close friends; people who know both of you intimately suspect you profoundly hate each other.
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Cheapness is a great virtue.
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I can hear you and I can watch your mouth move, and then I put together the sounds and the visual image, and I can understand the words as I integrate the two signals.
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To take in a new idea you must destroy the old, let go of old opinions, to observe and conceive new thoughts. To learn is but to change your opinion.
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You see a child play, and it is so close to seeing an artist paint, for in play a child says things without uttering a word. You can see how he solves his problems. You can also see what's wrong. Young children, especially, have enormous creativity, and whatever's in them rises to the surface in free play.
