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

• Something about giving himself over to a woman was worse than having lunch with the devil.

  

  Ana Castillo
  • Giving
  • Devil
  • Lunch

• 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

• How do you know that nonsense isn't a good thing? If human nonsense had been nurtured and developed for centuries, just as intelligence has, then perhaps something extraordinarily precious could have come from it.

  

  Yevgeny Zamyatin
  • Human
  • Nonsense
  • Developed

• I want for people not to worry so much. Life ain't going to be perfect, but tings will work out. People come to visit and I always tell them not to worry. If you got something to eat, don't worry, be grateful. Just look at all those books. Those books aren't about food. They're to do with worrying about food.

  

  George Dawson
  • Life
  • Worry
  • Grateful

• What is Death, so it be but glorious? 'Tis a sunset; And mortals may be happy to resemble The Gods but in decay.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Death
  • Gods
  • Glorious

• All gardeners need to know when to accept something wonderful and unexpected, taking no credit except for letting it be.

  

  Allen Lacy
  • Wonderful
  • Accepting
  • Credit

• Only when I smell the earth upon my face, will I ever be free, to fly from this place.

  

  Dawud Wharnsby Ali
  • Earth
  • Faces
  • Smell

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

  

  Erik Erikson
  • Faces
  • Accepting