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

• One of the most important axioms is, that as the quantity of any commodity, for instance, plain food, which a man has to consume, increases, so the utility or benefit derived from the last portion used decreases in degree. The decrease in enjoyment between the beginning and the end of a meal may be taken as an example.

  

  William Stanley Jevons
  • Important
  • Taken
  • Enjoyment

• The point of meditation is not merely to be an honest or good person in the conventional sense, trying only to maintain our security. We must begin to become compassionate and wise in the fundamental sense, open and relating to the world as it is.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • World
  • Good
  • Trying

• Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Thinking
  • Violence
  • Revenge

• Humility is not self deprecating, rather it is the quiet internal confidence allowing you to accept things as they are, especially yourself; that epiphany opens the way to personal greatness.

  

  Casar Jacobson
  • Humility
  • Greatness
  • Accepting

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

  

  Erik Erikson
  • Faces
  • Accepting