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Deep down, Erikson wants profoundly to be respected and admired - and very deep down he wants to be left alone. -- Stanley Hoffmann
Eric Erikson writes that in their search for identity, adolescents need a place of stillness, a place to gather themselves. -- Sherry Turkle
Erik Erikson has commented: Potentially creative men like (Bernard) Shaw build the personal fundament of their work during a self-decreed moratorium, during which they often starve themselves, socially, erotically, and, at last but not least, nutritionally, in order to let the grosser weeds die out, and make way for the growth of their inner garden. -- Lewis Hyde
Young people of high school age can actually feel themselves changing. Progress is almost tangible. It's exciting. It stimulates more progress. Nevertheless, growth is not constant and smooth. Erik Erikson quotes an aphorism to describe the formless forming of it. "I ain't what I ought to be. I ain't what I'm going to be, but I'm not what I was. -- Stella Chess

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