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.
Quotes to Explore
-
A fan almost pulled me off stage once, and that was a little scary because I totally almost ate it!
-
Economically, it’s more expensive to make movies. I hope digital movies change that.
-
...I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes.
-
The camera is as much a part of my everyday life as talking or eating or sex.
-
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.
-
Capital has its rights, which are as worthy of protection as any other right.
-
Getting over what you did to me is not why I get out of bed anymore.
-
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.
-
Most people have been brainwashed into believing that their job is to copyedit the world, not to design it.
-
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.
-
...a distorted development of autonomy is the root cause of the pathological and, ultimately, evil element in human beings.
-
Talented people almost always know full well the excellence that is in them.
-
What moments of despair that life would ever be made precious to me by the consciousness that I lived to some good purpose! It was that sort of despair that sucked away the sap of half the hours which might have been filled by energetic youthful activity: and the same demon tries to get hold of me again whenever an old work is dismissed and a new one is being meditated.
-
History... is nothing else but the rise and disappearance of races.
-
A wounded deer leaps the highest.
-
The quivering flesh, though torture-torn, may live, but souls, once deeply wounded, heal no more.
-
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.
