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Erik Erikson
Erik Erikson
American Psychologist
Born: Jun 15, 1902
Died: May 12, 1994
Also Child Life Sense Who You
Related authors: Abraham Maslow Angela Duckworth B. F. Skinner Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Erich Fromm Phil McGraw Thomas Szasz Wayne Dyer
The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others. Erik Erikson
You Patience Yourself Others See More Know Know Yourself
Life doesn't make any sense without interdependence. We need each other, and the sooner we learn that, the better for us all. Erik Erikson
Life Better Sense Other Sooner Make Learn Without Any Interdependence Us Each Need
In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity. Erik Erikson
Feeling Sense Alive Identity Without Existence Jungle Human Being Human Existence Social
You see a child play, and it is so close to seeing an artist paint, for in play a child says things without uttering a word. You can see how he solves his problems. You can also see what's wrong. Young children, especially, have enormous creativity, and whatever's in them rises to the surface in free play. Erik Erikson
You Creativity Problems Word Free Whatever Young Enormous Says See Seeing Rises He Wrong Also Without How Surface His Close Child Artist Children Young Children Them Paint Play Things
Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom. Erik Erikson
Love Failure Mistake Joy Symptom Hateful Triumph His Accomplishment Very Child Children Want Loved Prefer Much
When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we look at other 80-year-olds to see who got wise and who not. Lots of old people don't get wise, but you don't get wise unless you age. Erik Erikson
Life Wisdom You Wise Age People Old Other Our Unless Though See Look Looked Got Lots Get Old People Cycle Who
Every adult, whether he is a follower or a leader, a member of a mass or of an elite, was once a child. He was once small. A sense of smallness forms a substratum in his mind, ineradicably. His triumphs will be measured against this smallness; his defeats will substantiate it. Erik Erikson
Mind Will Follower Leader Sense Every Once Member Triumphs Small Adult He Mass His Child Whether Against Forms Measured Defeats Elite
We are what we love. Erik Erikson
Love
A man's conflicts represent what he 'really' is. Erik Erikson
Man He Represent Conflicts Really
The psychoanalytic method is essentially a historical method. Erik Erikson
Method Historical Essentially Psychoanalytic
Men have always shown a dim knowledge of their better potentialities by paying homage to those purest leaders who taught the simplest and most inclusive rules for an undivided mankind. Erik Erikson
Knowledge Better Men Inclusive Dim Rules Those Purest Simplest Leaders Most Always Taught Mankind Homage Paying Who Shown
Doubt is the brother of shame. Erik Erikson
Doubt Brother Shame
You've got to learn to accept the law of life, and face the fact that we disintegrate slowly. Erik Erikson
Life You Law Face Slowly Fact Learn Accept Got
Nobody likes to be found out, not even one who has made ruthless confession a part of his profession. Any autobiographer, therefore, at least between the lines, spars with his reader and potential judge. Erik Erikson
Judge Confession Made Out Potential Ruthless Part Between Nobody Likes Reader Least His Lines Any Who Profession Therefore Even Found

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