Top 100 Erickson Quotes
#1. The virtues developed here in the age range [around the age of 2] of are trust or faith, and will power and self determination according to the Erickson model. The existential questions being addressed here in this stage are, can one trust the world? and, is it alright to be myself?
Leviak B. Kelly
#2. I think the saddest moment in my life just happened two months ago. My old nightclub partner passed away, Phil Erickson down in Atlanta. He - I owe him everything. He put me in the business and taught me about everything I know.
Dick Van Dyke
#3. I'm reading Our Ecstatic Days, by Steve Erickson. It's an extraordinary journey and the most exciting thing I've found since The Master and Margarita, which I've read about 20 times. I like being taken away somewhere by a book.
Sienna Guillory
#4. I'm not falling in love with Emma. Oh, I've more than passed that. I am unquestionably in love with Emma Jane Erickson.
Aly Martinez
#5. Jemima Jane Erickson was one drunken pass away from jumping Ethan Weston's bones. He just didn't know it.
Amy Andrews
#6. No, I did night clubs right here in Los Angeles. My partner, Phil Erickson, put me in the business, a guy from my home town, a dear friend who we just lost a couple of months ago.
Dick Van Dyke
#7. I have had the great good fortune of working with a true genius of yoga, Karuna Erickson, in developing a new system called Heart Yoga.
Andrew Harvey
#8. Dennis Erickson drove to my home and asked me to become a Miami Hurricane. There was no way in hell I wasn't going.
Warren Sapp
#9. In the Book of Benamii, we have all read that it's better for one person in power to die, if their rule is unjust, than an entire nation to forget the God who made them.
Michelle Erickson
#11. While I do believe I become a technically better writer over time, in others ways writing gets harder because inspiration is finite.
Steve Erickson
#12. Do you only speak in questions?"
"Do you only speak in SAT words?
Megan Erickson
#13. By the plain form of my delirium I will blast the obstruction of every form around me into something barely called shadow. I sail. I swim to you. I know the water.
Steve Erickson
#14. Until you are willing to be confused about what you already know, what you know will never grow bigger, better, or more useful.
Milton H. Erickson
#15. Taking place in some Nordic-looking hinterland where all the seasons are out of whack, 'Game of Thrones' is the most aggressive example since 'Battlestar Galactica' of a genre that's perceived as adolescent aspiring to be fully adult.
Steve Erickson
#17. Life is rich, always changing, always challenging, and we architects have the task of transmitting into wood, concrete, glass and steel, of transforming human aspirations into habitable and meaningful space.
Arthur Erickson
#18. When the Doors became huge, what nascent rock intelligentsia existed at the time adored them.
Steve Erickson
#19. Every thought and word that a novelist thinks or writes is part of that castle constructed from sands on the beach of Me, including the turret or rampart or moat he may have thought or written on behalf of someone or something else.
Steve Erickson
#20. Younger evangelicals "want the world to like them and to think them a part of the world.
Erick Erickson
#21. I found that I could find the energy ... that I could find the determination to keep on going. I learned that your mind can amaze your body, if you just keep telling yourself, I can do it ... I can do it ... I can do it!
Jon David Erickson
#22. As a genre, the noir of post-World War II was based on characters who were weak or repellent, bound to let down us and themselves.
Steve Erickson
#23. Italian writer-director Paolo Sorrentino makes zombie movies, which probably comes as a surprise to him. At the center of his best and most recent pictures are the walking dead, characters in a race with themselves across mortality's finish line, their spirits arriving before the rest of them.
Steve Erickson
#24. No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly.
Arthur Erickson
#25. Last time I'd made a trek to Zane's hotel room, we'd been at NerdCon, and I'd been fueled by pride and anger and desire. Now, all I felt was shame and guilt. And love. In
Megan Erickson
#26. When people start yammering about artistic responsibility, artists become wary. The subtext of such talk is that the arts need to be regulated, which is to say censored.
Steve Erickson
#27. When I heard what the "B" in LGBTQ stood for, my first feeling was the settling of pieces into order.
Megan Erickson
#28. Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.
Arthur Erickson
#29. I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own.
Arthur Erickson
#30. Tahiti has been spoiled for many years, but Bali is one of the few cultures with origins in one of the great ancient cultures which is still alive.
Arthur Erickson
#31. When I wanted to know something, I wanted it undistorted by somebody else's imperfect knowledge.
Milton H. Erickson
#32. We always translate the other person's language into our own language.
Milton H. Erickson
#33. Like all paradises, Topanga is pitched at the tipping point of promise and peril.
Steve Erickson
#34. Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.
Arthur Erickson
#35. To an extent, our relationship with the movies is always subjective. Our capacity to be involved says as much about each of us; I've never fathomed why anyone would want to spend four hours in the company of the exceedingly tiresome Scarlett O'Hara.
Steve Erickson
#36. I'm not sure there's a difference between books that affected the way I see the world and books that influenced me as a writer.
Steve Erickson
#37. Dreams, puns, elisions, plays on words and similar tricks that we ordinarily think of as frivolous, all play a surprising and somewhat disconcerting role in the communication of important and serious feelings.
Milton H. Erickson
#38. The essentially unchangeable established order of things slowly disappeared and was forgotten for a while completely.
Arthur Erickson
#39. No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems.
Arthur Erickson
#40. There is nothing good or bad about knowledge itself; morality lies in the application of knowledge.
Jon Erickson
#41. The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events.
Arthur Erickson
#42. Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved.
Arthur Erickson
#43. Change will lead to insight far more often than insight will lead to change.
Milton H. Erickson
#44. The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process.
Arthur Erickson
#45. [Donald] Trump is not going to win ... He's losing to Hillary [Clinton] in the latest polling.
Erick Erickson
#46. He talked like a textbook and looked like an underwear model. The combination did absolutely everything for her libido.
Megan Erickson
#47. Walt Disney had a nuclear imagination before the advent of nuclear, some comprehension of apocalypse and rapture deep in his genes.
Steve Erickson
#48. Inside every TV star is a movie star screaming to get out, and Donna Frenzel, with whom I'm guessing you're not instantly familiar, made George Clooney a movie star once and for all in the first ten minutes of his fifth feature, 1998's 'Out of Sight.'
Steve Erickson
#49. At one time, I had it notarised that I was from another planet. By a lawyer.
Roky Erickson
#50. I believe novels can have secrets from their author, a notion I imagine would appall Nabokov.
Steve Erickson
#51. 'Downton Abbey' is a pageant, a cavalcade of a time when being born right is the first and most irrevocable career move, and in which an older order - whose passing 'Downton's' creator, Julian Fellowes, clearly mourns - is submerging in icy seas as surely as a grand and extravagant ocean liner.
Steve Erickson
#52. We are guilty for sending teams into foreign countries to advise them how to be like us.
Arthur Erickson
#53. You have to quit keeping this tab in your head of what you lost and what you won. Because then you miss the journey.
Megan Erickson
#54. Everything about this felt right, and I wondered what had happened to me--that I was somehow falling for this man who looked like he stepped off a catwalk, who had demons and sad eyes and kissed like an angel.
Megan Erickson
#55. I began composing the next poem, the one that was to be written next. Not the last poem of those I had read, but the poem written in the head of someone who may never have existed but who had certainly written another poem nonetheless, and just never had the chance to commit it to ink and the page.
Steve Erickson
#56. The most important thing in changing human behavior is the person's motivation.
Milton H. Erickson
#57. How many of us really appreciate the childishness of the unconscious mind?
Milton H. Erickson
#58. Bravery and devotion to duty hath no greater reward than to see the cat get into trouble.
John R. Erickson
#59. Like most sensitive souls, you already know you're sensitive. You soak up others' moods and desires like a sponge. You absorb sensation the way a paintbrush grasps each colour it touches on a palette.
Victoria Erickson
#60. Nothing is more linear than a street; nothing has a more fixed beginning, middle, and end.
Steve Erickson
#61. In their matching candy-stripe shirts, the Beach Boys were America's biggest band of the early '60s, transmitting utopian bulletins of summer without end to a cold and overcast nation.
Steve Erickson
#62. I think most novelists I know, certainly including me, feel the novels choose them rather than vice-versa.
Steve Erickson
#63. Among the gorges and ravines that hang on Los Angeles's shoulders like a necklace, Topanga - nestled in the cleavage of the Santa Monica Mountains - is the most singular of ornaments.
Steve Erickson
#64. I've never been convinced that the sun would come up without me barking.
John R. Erickson
#65. At what point do the people tell the politicians to go to hell? At what point do they get off the couch, march down to their state legislator's house, pull him outside, and beat him to a bloody pulp for being an idiot?
Erick Erickson
#66. 'The Company You Keep' is about outgrowing not just the delusions that accompany youth but the harsh certainties driving our lives and then trapping them before the years outpace the velocity of our dreams.
Steve Erickson
#67. Apple controls the licensing. It's their trademark.
Scott Erickson
#68. Beautiful actors are learning what beautiful actresses like Charlize Theron discovered a while ago - that they get taken more seriously when they trash the same beauty that got them taken seriously to begin with.
Steve Erickson
#69. Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression.
Arthur Erickson
#70. Rather than fearfully shutting down your sensitivity, dive in deeper into all possible feeling. As you expand, keep only those who are not afraid of oceans
Victoria Erickson
#71. I like the Sci Fi channel and 'Science Fiction Theatre.' I've been doing a lot of television-watching and thinking about good songs to write.
Roky Erickson
#72. I've decided 'Breaking Bad' may be one of the best TV shows ever, but I had to watch every last episode of the first four seasons to come to that conclusion.
Steve Erickson
#73. You can't effect the cards that you are dealt, but you can determine how you play them.
Milton H. Erickson
#74. We're dying of boredom, Corporal, that's the problem.' [Blend]
'If boredom was fatal there wouldn't be a soldier alive on this whole world, Blend.' [Picker]
Stephen Erickson
#75. Ironically, if only because over the years I've known so many - from college deans to studio executives to European expats - who come to Los Angeles aspiring to nothing other than living in Topanga, I wound up there by accident.
Steve Erickson
#76. By the nature of cinema and how it literalizes what we envision, movies can have difficulty replicating that connection we make with a classic book.
Steve Erickson
#77. Pablo Picasso, Frank Sinatra, Ernest Hemingway, Mel Gibson, Lou Reed, Norman Mailer, Vanessa Redgrave, Van Morrison - each is distinguished by controversies unrelated to his or her art; by many accounts, some of them are not nice people at all.
Steve Erickson
#78. The delusion of entertainment is devoid of meaning. It may amuse us for a bit, but after the initial hit we are left with the dark feeling of desolation.
Arthur Erickson
#79. The 1988 biopic of bebop immortal Charlie Parker, 'Bird,' was the film that opened my eyes to Clint Eastwood's potential as a filmmaker.
Steve Erickson
#80. Some distant day, anthropologists will consider as a landmark in humankind's evolution - comparable to the capacity for destroying ourselves by nuclear obliteration - the adolescent gene's newly emergent power to dictate nightly TV viewing.
Steve Erickson
#81. Why did she make him want to do something, say something, to prove that he was worthy of her? She was just a woman. A beautiful, messy, perfect, flawed, sexy, sweet woman he couldn't seem to get out of his system no matter how much he tried.
Karen Erickson
#82. A street is a story in asphalt - so it's a paradox that the streets are the one place where the movies play fast and loose with continuity, something to which L.A. streets lend themselves as naturally as does the city's psyche.
Steve Erickson
#83. As reporters in State College, there was a joke. We used to call Penn State, the Kremlin.
Rodney Erickson
#84. The obsession with performance left no room for the development of the intuitive or spiritual impact of space and form other than the aesthetic of the machine itself.
Arthur Erickson
#85. The gay rights activists who yell 'bigot' at those who disagree with them are the Imams of America's cultural ghetto.
Erick Erickson
#87. I've gone through three changes- I thought I was a Christian then I was the devil then the third one, where I know who I am you know I feel like I'm an alien.
Roky Erickson
#88. Max always left immediately after supplying the food, like he was the cat's dirty secret and if its big cat-gang buddies found out it had a human on the side, it'd be laughed out of the alley.
Megan Erickson
#89. What we call 'the news' always has tried to tell a story, and it's always told the story it wanted or, put most positively, whatever story it believed needed telling.
Steve Erickson
#90. Patients are patients because they are out of rapport with their own unconscious ... Patients are people who have had too much programming - so much outside programming that they have lost touch with their inner selves.
Milton H. Erickson
#91. You can teach a child the importance of pain by your behavior. You can also teach as child the importance of no pain by your behavior.
Milton H. Erickson
#92. Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.
Arthur Erickson
#93. Our universities advocate fragmentation in their course systems.
Arthur Erickson
#94. Like so much of President Obama's decisions over the past six years, this is another photo-op with a compliant press that does not matter and will do little.
Erick Erickson
#96. I get that, and I deserve it. But I'm telling you, Landry Jacobs, I have loved you, I do love you, and I will love you for the rest of my life. And if you can't believe that yet, I'll spend every minute of our lives proving it to you.
Megan Erickson
#97. The pornographer? He is concerned with what the characters do, while the artist, the artist is concerned with who the characters are.
Steve Erickson
#100. Alejandro Jodorowsky is one of the supreme nut jobs in movie history, and of course I mean that in the nicest way.
Steve Erickson
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