Erik Erikson Quotes
Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. Others have called this deepest quality confidence, and I have referred to trust as the earliest positive psychosocial attitude, but if life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.
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A fan almost pulled me off stage once, and that was a little scary because I totally almost ate it!
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Economically, it’s more expensive to make movies. I hope digital movies change that.
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...I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes.
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The camera is as much a part of my everyday life as talking or eating or sex.
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I think it would be barely satisfactory from the strong message I got from (Vilsack), but we're trying to come up with something that a majority of the board could agree on.
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Capital has its rights, which are as worthy of protection as any other right.
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Getting over what you did to me is not why I get out of bed anymore.
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I never lost my belief, in the midst of setbacks which were not spared me during my period of struggle. Providence has had the last word and brought me success.
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Most people have been brainwashed into believing that their job is to copyedit the world, not to design it.
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History clearly shows that governments that have tried to contain, regulate, or otherwise usurp capital have failed. It is the same with brainpower; no one has a monopoly on brainpower. Controlling brainpower is like herding cats. Brainpower creates capital, and capital fuels brainpower. It is a fundamental dynamic principle. Great ideas, solutions, insights, or inventions will develop only where they are nurtured and properly rewarded.
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...a distorted development of autonomy is the root cause of the pathological and, ultimately, evil element in human beings.
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Yoga is a means and an end.
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I think he played very aggressive. Their inside guys I thought were huge. They were more physical and more aggressive than we were.
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I was terribly wounded by my wife's death.
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Fiction helps me to reconnect with the true, deep weirdness inherent in everyday reality, in our dealings with one another, in just being alive.
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Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. Others have called this deepest quality confidence, and I have referred to trust as the earliest positive psychosocial attitude, but if life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.
