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Milton H. Erickson - From the Appreciation category:
How many of us really appreciate the childishness of the unconscious mind? (Milton H. Erickson)
Milton H. Erickson - From the Communication category:
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)
Milton H. Erickson - From the Confidence category:
I am very confident. I look confident. I act confident. I speak in a confident way... (Milton H. Erickson)
Milton H. Erickson - From the Difficulty category:
Life's difficulties are merely necessary roughage. (Milton H. Erickson)
Milton H. Erickson - From the Ego category:
The conscious ego cannot tell the unconscious what to do? (Milton H. Erickson)
Milton H. Erickson - From the Expectation category:
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)
Milton H. Erickson - From the Goals category:
A goal without a date is just a dream. (Milton H. Erickson)
Milton H. Erickson - From the Innocence category:
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 culture. It's rather simple, rather childish... It is direct and free. (Milton H. Erickson)
Milton H. Erickson - From the Knowledge category:
When I wanted to know something, I wanted it undistorted by somebody else's imperfect knowledge. (Milton H. Erickson)
Milton H. Erickson - From the Language category:
We always translate the other person's language into our own language. (Milton H. Erickson)
Milton H. Erickson - From the Listening category:
So, I warn all of you, don't ever when you are listening... think you understand... because you're listening with your ears and thinking with your vocabulary. The [other's] vocabulary is something entirely different. (Milton H. Erickson)
Milton H. Erickson - From the Silence category:
Shut up, sit in that chair there and go into a deep trance! (Milton H. Erickson)
Milton H. Erickson - From the Teaching category:
If I started teaching by precision I'd bore them. (Milton H. Erickson)
Milton H. Erickson - From the Technique category:
Use of the confusion technique has many times effected exceedingly rapid hypnotic inductions under conditions such as acute pain and even in hostile, aggressive and resistant persons. (Milton H. Erickson)
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