Erickson Quotes & Sayings

White Americans believe we've made more progress since the end of slavery in 1865 than do black Americans for whom '12 Years a Slave' documents a collective memory, passed down in the genes and by the lore of generations. — Steve Erickson

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

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

You can pretend anything and master it. — Milton H. Erickson

Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise. — Arthur Erickson

The unconscious mind is decidedly simple, unaffected, straightforward and honest. It hasn't got all of this facade, this veneer of what we call adult culture. It's rather simple, rather childish It is direct and free. — Milton H. Erickson

I've never been convinced that the sun would come up without me barking. — John R. Erickson

There is an increasing awareness of the interrelatedness of things. We are becoming less prone to accept an immediate solution without questioning its larger implications. — Arthur Erickson

As the twentieth century was about politics, which is to say survival, the twenty-first is about God, which is to say oblivion, a subject his country is profoundly unprepared to contemplate. — Steve Erickson

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

'Homeland' was a sensation out of the gate in 2011, gathering acclaim and sweeping up Emmys, and the reason such shows are so overrated is because, unlike with other forms of popular art, success in TV is measured almost purely by how obsessive we become. — Steve Erickson

I don't think Trump's a conservative, I'm certainly not going to support him. — Erick Erickson

It's not always clear whether the filmmaker intends our alienation or is even aware of it. — Steve Erickson

Don't ask why the patient is the way he is, ask for what he would change. — Milton H. Erickson

Before movies, memory unspooled differently in the mind, trailing off in dust-blasted fade-out rather than spliced-together flashback; before photography, memory rippled like a reflection on water's surface, less precise but more profoundly true. — Steve Erickson

President Obama flew to China a few days ago and announced a joint environmental pact with the communist regime. The United States will reduce its carbon emissions substantially over the next 11 years. China will do absolutely nothing but hope that its emissions decline after 2030. — Erick Erickson

Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process. — Arthur Erickson

Bankers cannot afford to be concerned with only the economic aspects of projects. There may be serious implications on the natural environment, the urban environment, on human culture. — Arthur Erickson

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

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

Trance is a natural everyday experience. — Milton H. Erickson

Walt Disney had a nuclear imagination before the advent of nuclear, some comprehension of apocalypse and rapture deep in his genes. — Steve Erickson

The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers. — Arthur Erickson

you have not even gone to a single class, yet. — V.J. Erickson

Remember, mindset is the #1 most important thing as you start your entrepreneurial journey, and it will continue to guide you the entire way. — Kate Erickson

When television captured the popular imagination of the 1950s, a rash of movies satirized Hollywood while also mythologizing it. — Steve Erickson

It's the last best trick of a losing Democrat, is to accuse the Republicans of racism. — Erick Erickson

What I mean is that conservatives are in a constant state of hair-on-fire, yelling anger, — Erick Erickson

No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them. — Arthur Erickson

Apple controls the licensing. It's their trademark. — Scott Erickson

And then afterwards I worked in advertising for a year which taught me about writing even when you don't want to (laughter) because there's never a moment that you want to write about an Erickson cell phone but you have to. And that's really important you know obviously for the ... like if you really want to write, you have to write every day no matter how you feel or you know. And then, yeah, and then I ended up working in TV and then from TV into movies and then directing, so. — Nicholas Stoller

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

The witch-hunting McCarthy era found Hollywood's view of the press growing bleaker along with the decade's view of everything else. — Steve Erickson

In those countries with centuries of a craft tradition behind their building methods, techniques are tightly coordinated under the direction of the architect. — Arthur Erickson

It's a wonder, given your prowess with these delicious women, that there aren't dozens of little Bonapartes running around. Tell me, how do you account for that? — Carolly Erickson

I wanted to ask you about your vision of perfection in an imperfect world, or what side of the earth calls out to you when you touch a physical globe, or maybe about your greatest heartache and how you still go on as your world continues turning, or what you do with a memory once lodged inside your bones that;s still breathing, and burning. But you're still a stranger, and I'm overly polite, so I'll ask all about your day when I'd rather know about your life. — Victoria Erickson

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

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

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

In 1957's 'There's No You,' Sinatra is suspended at the intersection of a loss he can't face and a memory he can't relinquish. — Steve Erickson

The engineered built environments or domesticated landscapes of certain Amazonian peoples were as impressive as any Egyptian pyramid, Mesopotamian city, or Chinese terrace-irrigiation system. In the Amazon, the transformation was driven by social demands: social group formation, domestic routines, territoriality, local environmental knowledge, gifting, and competitive feasting. — Clark L. Erickson

The heart, not the head, must be the guide. — Arthur Erickson

The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe. — Arthur Erickson

If Marxist theory dictates that the personal is always political, the rebuttal of both 'The Americans' and 'House of Cards' is that the political is always personal: the sum total of our collective needs and desires, vows and betrayals. — Steve Erickson

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

I have no intention of dying. In fact, it will be the last thing I do! — Milton H. Erickson

The most telling thing about 'Fargo,' both the now-classic movie and the television series, is that it doesn't take place in Fargo. — Steve Erickson

Memory runs by its own itinerary, departing and arriving at stations of the past on its own schedule. — Steve Erickson

I have never treasured any woman the way I treasure you now, this moment. You are all I think of, all I want. — Carolly Erickson

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

Life loves to take your perfect plans and dump a bucket of paint on them. It's your choice to call it garbage or make something beautiful of it. — Stephanie Erickson

Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within. — Arthur Erickson

Women are powerful, and I see them stifle this every. single. day. Stop looking to be saved and hiding your magic. Stop tossing aside your voice and valid emotions. Stop wasting your time with fake friends and chasing men like they're cures.
Material things, better jobs, and other people- they won't fill your gap. Only you can do that. Life is short. Rise up and step back into your awesome, innate power. You are compassion and creative force and divine life itself. You are a Goddess. — Victoria Erickson

At one time, I had it notarised that I was from another planet. By a lawyer. — Roky Erickson

But of course the Western changed along with America's view of itself, from some sort of heroic country, where everybody's free, to the spiritually fucked-up defiled place it really is, and now you got jive Italians, if you can feature that, making the only Westerns worth seeing anymore because white America's just too fucking confused, can't figure out whether to embrace the myth or the anti-myth, so in a country where folks always figured you can escape your past, now the word is out that this is the country where you can do no such thing, this is the one place where, like the jive that finally becomes impossible to distinguish from the anti-jive, honor becomes impossible to distinguish from betrayal or just, you know, stone cold murder ... — Steve Erickson

It is really amazing what people can do. Only they don't know what they can do. — Milton H. Erickson

Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom. — Arthur Erickson

The first books I remember having an impact on me when I was a kid were L. Frank Baum's 'Oz' books, which were much stranger than the movie: at once rather whimsical and really dark. — Steve Erickson

Haven't touched anyone since I first had my hands on you." Dominic — Megan Erickson

You see, we don't know what our goals are. We learn our goals only in the process of getting there You don't know what the baby is going to become. Therefore, you wait and take good care of it until it becomes what it will. — Milton H. Erickson

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

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

In LA, you think you're making something up, but it's making you up. — Steve Erickson

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

Just because you are soft doesn't mean you are not a force. Honey and wildfire are both the colour gold. — Victoria Erickson

You are surrounded by signs," she said. "Ignore none of them. — Steve Erickson

No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly. — Arthur Erickson

Our children are our most important assets. — Rodney Erickson

Kirk Erickson and colleagues in Art Kramer's lab hypothesized that the well-documented shrinkage of the brain with age would be reduced by exercise. They used structural scans to measure hippocampal volume in 165 healthy older people who varied in their level of physical fitness. The hippocampus is a structure deep in the temporal lobes long known to be critical for forming new memories. They found that people who showed higher aerobic fitness had larger hippocampi bilaterally. Moreover, the fitter group also showed better spatial memory performance than the less fit group. — Pamela M. Greenwood

Someone dies when the movies get into your dreams. — Steve Erickson

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

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

I ran my fingers along his jaw and he stroked my hip. We didn't talk because there were no words to say, nothing to describe the moment where we grew from boys who were best friends to men who were lovers. — Megan Erickson

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

'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

I have Time Warner, and I try to relax a lot and watch television a lot and everything. I really enjoy that. Listen to the radio. — Roky Erickson

We can appreciate but not really understand the medieval town. We cannot comprehend its compactness, the contiguity of all its buildings as a single uninterrupted whole. — Arthur Erickson

Quentin Tarantino is my 15-year-old son's favorite director, and by that I mean no condescension to either Tarantino or my 15-year-old son. — Steve Erickson

To be fully human is to be wild. Wild is the strange pull and whispering wisdom. It's the gentle nudge and the forceful ache. It is your truth, passed down from the ancients, and the very stream of life in your blood. Wild is the soul where passion and creativity reside, and the quickening of your heart. Wild is what is real, and wild is your home. — Victoria Erickson

Every person's map of the world is as unique as their thumbprint.There are no two people alike. No two people who understand the same sentence the same way ... So in dealing with people, you try not to fit them to your concept of what they should be. — Milton H. Erickson

A goal without a date is just a dream. — Milton H. Erickson

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

We are all part of the history of photography... — Wendy Erickson

The '80s convergence of comics' new adult sensibility with the movies' advancing technology was bound to catch the attention of even slow-on-the-uptake Hollywood, and this particularly was true when 'Watchmen' and 'The Dark Knight Returns' became phenomena. — Steve Erickson

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

Our settlement of land is without regard to the best use of land. — Arthur Erickson

David Cronenberg's 'Maps to the Stars' is a Hollywood monster movie in which Hollywood is the monster. — Steve Erickson

[Phyllis Schlaffley and Pat Buchanan and Jeff Sessions] do know conservatism, but I think they are wrong. — Erick Erickson

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

Like all paradises, Topanga is pitched at the tipping point of promise and peril. — Steve Erickson

The beautifully composed imagery of '12 Years a Slave' underscores the savagery of its subject, which is an American South not of knights and ladies but obscene values and a grotesque pageantry, every gorgeous shot of the languid landscape radiating toxicity like a hyperlush blossom that's poison to the touch. — Steve Erickson

I had the 'War of the Worlds' comic book. I had lots of comic books. — Roky Erickson

You keep looking around for who's in fucking charge, and there's just nobody like that at all. The cops just ride their horses back and forth through the park, up and down Fifth Avenue. Who the hell's angry on Fifth Avenue, that's what I want to know. — Steve Erickson

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

The Structure of Magic I by Richard Bandler and John Grinder is a delightful simplification of the infinite complexities of the language I use with patients. In reading this book, I learned a great deal about the things that I've done without knowing about them. — Milton H. Erickson

Builders eventually took advantage of the look of modernism to build cheaply and carelessly. — Arthur Erickson

Escapism always has its place, but when movies connect to other things around us and suggest implications that haven't been considered before, that's a dividend, too, even when our love of movies becomes complicated as a result. — Steve Erickson

You use hypnosis not as a cure but as a means of establishing a favorable climate in which to learn. — Milton H. Erickson

Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it. — Arthur Erickson

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