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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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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I paint every day. I really have no hobbies. That's all I do.
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The road to success, and by that I mean... the possibility of giving the best one has to the cause that one loves most, is not easy.
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My poetry is me trying to reconcile my own life and opportunities I've had with opportunities my students aren't given and how profoundly unfair that is.
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Gollum is entirely based on the notion of addiction. The way that the ring pervades him, makes him craving, lustful, depletes him physically, psychologically and mentally.
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I'm Iranian and no matter what I do, I'm dealing with politics because especially my music, that it's a music that talks about peace, love, unity.
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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.
