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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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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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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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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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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The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes – ah, that is where the art resides.
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I think when someone knows who they are and is comfortable and confident with that, I think a lot of the typical, aesthetic things sort of fall by the wayside.
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When your lips get dry, is there anything more frantic?
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I really don't care about plot. I really, really don't.
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My theory is that one needs to be loved completely, unconditionally, and unfettered by parental disapproval, if one is to get happily through life which, after all, presents its own hurdles.
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God is never late, we're just impatient.
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The band was rejuvenated by that wonderful day. It breathed new life into us.
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I do feel guilty. I do. Especially about my family, my children. I write about them, and I know that this will haunt them as well through their lives. Why did I do that to them?
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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.
