Milton H. Erickson Professions : Psychiatrist Born : December 5, 1901 Died : March 25, 1980 Browse All Authors Top 41 quotes by Milton H. Erickson I am very confident. I look confident. I act confident. I speak in a confident way. Milton H. Erickson confidence looks way Life's difficulties are merely necessary roughage. Milton H. Erickson difficulty I have no intention of dying. In fact, it will be the last thing I do! Milton H. Erickson positivity lasts dying What is easiest to see is often overlooked. Milton H. Erickson overlooked When I wanted to know something, I wanted it undistorted by somebody else's imperfect knowledge. Milton H. Erickson imperfect knows wanted Therapy is often a matter of tipping the first domino. Milton H. Erickson tipping matter firsts 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 communication dream thinking How many of us really appreciate the childishness of the unconscious mind? Milton H. Erickson appreciate mind appreciation You can trust the unconscious. Milton H. Erickson unconscious consciousness 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 knowing reading book Trance is a natural everyday experience. Milton H. Erickson trance everyday natural You can pretend anything and master it. Milton H. Erickson motivation masters funny 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 unfinished incomplete should We always translate the other person's language into our own language. Milton H. Erickson translate language persons 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. Milton H. Erickson understanding long past You can't learn to swim on a piano bench. Milton H. Erickson piano benches swim Life is lived in the present and directed toward a future. Milton H. Erickson life-is Little is really known of the actual potentials of human functioning. Milton H. Erickson known humans littles Shut up, sit in that chair there and go into a deep trance! Milton H. Erickson chairs shut-up silence 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 dignity hell world Similar Authors Bruce D. Perry psychiatrist Arthur Kleinman psychiatrist Anthony Storr psychiatrist Allen Frances psychiatrist Bertrand Piccard psychiatrist Darold Treffert psychiatrist All Authors