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 Copy Share Image
You can't effect the cards that you are dealt, but you can determine how you play them. — Milton H. Erickson Copy Share Image
The most important thing in changing human behavior is the person's motivation. — Milton H. Erickson Copy Share Image
Little is really known of the actual potentials of human functioning. — Milton H. Erickson Copy Share Image
The unconscious mind works without your knowledge and that is the way it prefers. — Milton H. Erickson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Change will lead to insight far more often than insight will lead to change. — Milton H. Erickson Copy Share Image
Emphasis should be placed more on what the patient does in the present and will do in the future than on a mere understanding… — Milton H. Erickson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We always translate the other person's language into our own language. — Milton H. Erickson Copy Share Image
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… — Milton H. Erickson Copy Share Image
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… — Milton H. Erickson Copy Share Image
