39 Quotes by Milton H. Erickson

I am very confident. I look confident. I act confident. I speak in a confident way...

You see, we don’t know what our goals are. We learn our goals only in the process of getting there You don’t know what the baby is going to become. Therefore, you wait and take good care of it until it becomes what it will.

You don’t take insults. You leave them with the insulter.

You can’t learn to swim on a piano bench.

You can trust the unconscious.

You use hypnosis not as a cure but as a means of establishing a favorable climate in which to learn.

Until you are willing to be confused about what you already know, what you know will never grow bigger, better, or more useful.

Therapy is often a matter of tipping the first domino.

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.