Erik Erikson Quotes

You've got to learn to accept the law of life, and face the fact that we disintegrate slowly.

Erik Erikson

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• You do have to learn how to wear a kilt, and it's certainly very liberating and very freeing, but surprisingly very comfortable to wear, to ride a horse in a kilt. I was surprised by that.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Learn
  • Horse
  • Ride

• The idea of putting out an album is quite exciting because it's sharing your creativity with people. There's no ambition to be famous. I couldn't care less about that.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • People
  • Famous
  • Idea

• The book is here to stay. What we're doing is symbolic of the peaceful coexistence of the book and the computer.

  

  Vartan Gregorian
  • Book
  • Computer
  • Symbol

• I want to be an all round entertainer, I want to act, make films, make albums, do whatever I can.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Want
  • Film
  • Albums

• You can solo-climb Everest without using oxygen or you can pay guides and Sherpas to carry your loads, put ladders across crevasses, lay in 6,000 feet of fixed ropes, and have one Sherpa pulling you and another pushing you. ... The goal of climbing big, dangerous mountains should be to attain some sort of spiritual and personal growth, but this won't happen if you compromise away the entire process.

  

  Yvon Chouinard
  • Spiritual
  • Growth
  • Oxygen

• There is an unbroken line of police violence in the United States that takes us all the way back to the days of slavery, the aftermath of slavery, the development of the Ku Klux Klan. There is so much history of this racist violence that simply to bring one person to justice is not going to disturb the whole racist edifice.

  

  Angela Davis
  • History
  • Justice
  • Violence

• I tried to fit it in with some previous broad conceptual understanding of some part of mathematics that would clarify the particular problem I was thinking about.

  

  Andrew Wiles
  • Thinking
  • Problem
  • Understanding

• He made a story for all of them, a story to give them strength. The words of the story poured out of his mouth as if they had substance, pebbles and stone extending to hold the corporal up...knees from buckling...hands from letting go of the blanket.

  

  Leslie Marmon Silko
  • Up
  • Words
  • Story

• Overconsumption is the mother of all environmental problems. For the first time in the history of capitalism, consumption itself has become controversial.

  

  Kalle Lasn
  • Time
  • History
  • Mother

• You can't live off of just greasy fatty foods and stayin' up till six in the mornin' just partyin'. You gotta take care of yourself.

  

  Questlove
  • Up
  • Live

• I had a world. I don't think I had a career. I made films.

  

  Agnes Varda
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Career

• A well-paid slave is nonetheless a slave.

  

  Curt Flood
  • Wells
  • Slave
  • Paid

• Eleanor Roosevelt doesn't ever do anything that is going to hurt her husband. She tries things out on him. She gets permission to do things. The amazing thing, I think, historically, is that he says, "Go do it. If you can make this happen, I'll follow you."

  

  Blanche Wiesen Cook
  • Hurt
  • Happens
  • Permission

• We are so concerned to flatter the majority that we lose sight of how very often it is necessary, in order to preserve freedom for the minority, let alone for the individual, to face that majority down.

  

  William Francis Buckley
  • Liberty
  • Individual
  • Faces

• I would advocate that you show me your smiling face, and how happy you can make your life.

  

  Andy Biersack Black Veil Brides
  • Shows
  • Faces

• You've got to learn to accept the law of life, and face the fact that we disintegrate slowly.

  

  Erik Erikson
  • Faces
  • Accepting