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 More Quotes by Milton H. Erickson More Quotes From Milton H. Erickson 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 The conscious ego cannot tell the unconscious what to do? Milton H. Erickson unconscious ego conscious
