Milton Erickson Quotes
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You don't take insults. You leave them with the insulter.
— Milton H. Erickson
There are so many things in human living that we should regard not as traumatic learning but as incomplete learning, unfinished learning.
— Milton H. Erickson
You use hypnosis not as a cure but as a means of establishing a favorable climate in which to learn.
— Milton H. Erickson
It is really amazing what people can do. Only they don't know what they can do.
— Milton H. Erickson
You can trust the unconscious.
— Milton H. Erickson
The conscious ego cannot tell the unconscious what to do?
— Milton H. Erickson
Shut up, sit in that chair there and go into a deep trance!
— Milton H. Erickson
Allow yourself to see what you don't allow yourself to see.
— Milton H. Erickson
The unconscious mind works without your knowledge and that is the way it prefers.
— Milton H. Erickson
People who accomplish a great many things are people who have freed themselves from biases. These are the creative people.
— Milton H. Erickson
Life is lived in the present and directed toward a future.
— Milton H. Erickson
One's appreciation of, and understanding of the normal or the usual is requisite for any understanding of the abnormal or the unusual.
— Milton H. Erickson
Life will bring you pain all by itself. Your responsibility is to create joy.
— Milton H. Erickson
I am very confident. I look confident. I act confident. I speak in a confident way ...
— Milton H. Erickson
How many of us really appreciate the childishness of the unconscious mind?
— Milton H. Erickson
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
We always translate the other person's language into our own language.
— Milton H. Erickson
Don't ask why the patient is the way he is, ask for what he would change.
— Milton H. Erickson
When I wanted to know something, I wanted it undistorted by somebody else's imperfect knowledge.
— Milton H. Erickson
You can pretend anything and master it.
— Milton H. Erickson
Enlightenment is always preceded by confusion.
— Milton H. Erickson
You can't effect the cards that you are dealt, but you can determine how you play them.
— Milton H. Erickson
Trance is a natural everyday experience.
— Milton H. Erickson
The most important thing in changing human behavior is the person's motivation.
— Milton H. Erickson
People do not come into therapy to change their past but their future.
— Milton H. Erickson
A goal without a date is just a dream.
— Milton H. Erickson
Life's difficulties are merely necessary roughage.
— Milton H. Erickson
Therapy is often a matter of tipping the first domino.
— Milton H. Erickson
As for my dignity ... the hell with my dignity. I will get along alright in this world. I don't have to be dignified, professional.
— Milton H. Erickson
Change will lead to insight far more often than insight will lead to change.
— Milton H. Erickson
I have no intention of dying. In fact, it will be the last thing I do!
— Milton H. Erickson
You can't learn to swim on a piano bench.
— Milton H. Erickson
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
What is easiest to see is often overlooked.
— Milton H. Erickson