Milton H. Erickson Quotes
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Emphasis should be placed more on what the patient does in the present and will do in the future than on a mere understanding of why some long-past event occurred.
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Life is lived in the present and directed toward a future.
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The conscious ego cannot tell the unconscious what to do?
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Each person is a unique individual. Hence, psychotherapy should be formulated to meet the uniqueness of the individual's needs, rather than tailoring the person to fit the Procrustean bed of a hypothetical theory of human behavior.
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You can trust the unconscious.
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Allow yourself to see what you don’t allow yourself to see.
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You don't take insults. You leave them with the insulter.
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Little is really known of the actual potentials of human functioning.
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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.
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You can pretend anything and master it.
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I am very confident. I look confident. I act confident. I speak in a confident way.
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Enlightenment is always preceded by confusion.
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What is easiest to see is often overlooked.
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Life's difficulties are merely necessary roughage.
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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.
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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.
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We always translate the other person's language into our own language.
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Shut up, sit in that chair there and go into a deep trance!
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Don't ask why the patient is the way he is, ask for what he would change.
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Trance is a natural everyday experience.
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You can't learn to swim on a piano bench.
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The most important thing in changing human behavior is the person's motivation.
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Change will lead to insight far more often than insight will lead to change.
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Life will bring you pain all by itself. Your responsibility is to create joy.
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You can't effect the cards that you are dealt, but you can determine how you play them.
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People do not come into therapy to change their past but their future.
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There are so many things in human living that we should regard not as traumatic learning but as incomplete learning, unfinished learning.
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You use hypnosis not as a cure but as a means of establishing a favorable climate in which to learn.
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Life isn't something you can give an answer to today. You should enjoy the process of waiting, the process of becoming what you are. There is nothing more delightful than planting flower seeds and not knowing what kind of flowers are going to come up.
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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.
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