"The playing adult steps sideward into another reality;……" — Erik Erikson
"The playing adult steps sideward into another reality; the playing child advances forward to new stages of mastery."
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25 Quotes by Erik Erikson
Erik Erikson has 25 quotes on this site.
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Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters - where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent…
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Babies control and bring up their families as much as they are controlled by them; in fact ... the family…
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The American feels too rich in his opportunities for free expression that he often no longer knows what he is…
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Adolescents need freedom to choose, but not so much freedom that they cannot, in fact, make a choice.
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Personality, too, is destiny.
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Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of…
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Life doesn't make any sense without interdependence. We need each other, and the sooner we learn that, the better for…
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You see a child play, and it is so close to seeing an artist paint, for in play a child…
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Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.
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Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is…
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We cannot leave history entirely to nonclinical observers and to professional historians.
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I am what survives of me.
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More Adult Quotes
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Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
— Margaret Atwood
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Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
— Margaret Atwood
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I grew up in a family that was multifaceted, sexually oriented, and pretty much open to everything. And because I…
— Drew Barrymore
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I was raised on government cheese. As an adult, in my first marriage, my husband and I worked real hard…
— Roseanne Barr
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When you're young, you're always wondering when you're actually going to feel like a grownup. And I think you probably…
— Drew Barrymore
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If you want your kids to listen to you, don't yell at them. Whisper. Make them lean in. My kids…
— Mario Batali
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There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the…
— Jean Baudrillard
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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The average adult laughs 15 times a day; the average child, more than 400 times.
— Martha Beck
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Children who assume adult responsibilities feel old when they're young.
— Martha Beck
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Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise…
— Martha Beck
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An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties.
— Pope Benedict XVI
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