Erik Erikson Quotes

The fact that human conscience remains partially infantile throughout life is the core of human tragedy.

Erik Erikson

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• There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • Time
  • Moments
  • Singing

• But I have to say I'm incredibly proud of the Panther Racing National Guard Team, and in my IndyCar career there's not many races where I've honestly left the track feeling that we've executed everything perfectly. And I have to say, I thought they did an absolute phenomenal job. The pit stops were just first class.

  

  Dan Wheldon
  • Job
  • Career
  • Feeling

• I don't take breaks, man. In the past, I used to spend my free time getting in trouble, and now I spend it working on my music. If I'm not playing drums with my cover band, Chevy Metal, I'm working on songs for myself.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Time
  • Music
  • Free

• There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Law
  • Fit
  • Object

• Our globalized, automated economy is full of magic - Everyday Low Prices and next-day delivery on that single Gatorade you one-clicked. But it is also full of loss - of jobs, of the dignity of steady work, of chances to rise.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • Work
  • Single
  • Magic

• If you're going to play a woman, you might as well play a woman that you liked, and someone sexy.

  

  John Travolta
  • Play
  • Sexy
  • Might

• For some reason, we've just lost it. I know we still have it. Everyone has got to find it.

  

  Ashley Smith
  • Lost
  • Reason

• No matter whether you're an Olympic swimmer or you're someone who doesn't like to swim, your kids should learn this life skill. You can't be next to them every second, so they must be able to relax in the water and get themselves to safety.

  

  Summer Sanders
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Water

• I want to write. I have always wanted to write. I do not care it I am not good at it. I just want to try.

  

  Mary Pipher
  • Good
  • Want
  • Write

• To harm another is to harm oneself.

  

  Socrates
  • Another
  • Harm
  • Oneself

• Imperialism, in a sense, is the transition stage from capitalism to Socialism. . . . It is capitalism dying, not dead.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Dying
  • Capitalism
  • Socialism

• Everything is habit-forming, so make sure what you do is what you want to be doing.

  

  Wilt Chamberlain
  • Want
  • inspirational
  • Habit

• To God all things are beautiful, good, and right; human beings, on the other hand, deem some things right and others wrong. It would not be better if things happened to people just as they wish.

  

  Heraclitus
  • People
  • God
  • Human Beings

• The photographs of Iraqi prisoners being subjected to degrading and humiliating treatment by their captors, and the reports of acts of sexual abuse, physical abuse, and other acts of maltreatment shock the conscience.

  

  Ed Markey
  • Abuse
  • Conscience
  • Physical

• There are times when you have to obey a call which is the highest of all, i.e. the voice of conscience even though such obedience may cost many a bitter tear, and even more, separation from friends, from family, from the state, to which you may belong, from all that you have held as dear as life itself. For this obedience is the law of our being.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Friends
  • Voice
  • Conscience

• The fact that human conscience remains partially infantile throughout life is the core of human tragedy.

  

  Erik Erikson
  • Conscience
  • Remains
  • Infantile