You can't effect the cards that you are dealt, but you can determine how you play them.

Life is lived in the present and directed toward a future.

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.

You can't effect the cards that you are dealt, but you can determine how you play them.

Don't ask why the patient is the way he is, ask for what he would change.

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

Each person is a unique individual. Hence, psychotherapy should be formulated to meet the uniqueness of the individual's needs, rather than tailoring the person to fit the Procrustean bed of a hypothetical theory of human behavior.