Top 77 Spencer Johnson Quotes
#1. The Present Is Not The Past And It Is Not The Future. The Present Is The Present Moment! The Present Is Right Now!
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#2. Change could surprise you only if you didn't expect it and weren't looking for it
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#3. He knew some fear should be respected, as it can keep you out of real
danger. But he realized most of his fears were irrational and had kept him
from changing when he needed to.
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#4. Movement In A New Direction Helps You Find New Cheese. Haw
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#5. He was taking control, rather than simply letting things happen to him. Then
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#6. behind the wall." The next day, Hem and Haw returned with tools. Hem held the chisel, while Haw banged on the hammer until they made a hole in the wall of Cheese Station C. They peered inside but found no Cheese. They were disappointed but believed they could solve the problem. So they started
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#7. I grew up in Hollywood, California. A lot of my parents' friends were in the motion picture industry, but I saw their doctor friends as more solid. I admired them; there was a peacefulness in them, a sense of purpose that I liked. So I became very interested in being a surgeon.
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#8. He decided that if he ever got the chance again, he would get out of his comfort zone and adapt to change sooner. It would make things easier. Then,
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#9. While in the past we may have wanted loyal employees, today we need flexible people who are not possessive about "the way things are done around here." And
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#10. You Get Out Of A Valley Sooner When You Manage To Get Outside Of Yourself: At Work, By Being Of Greater Service, And In Life, By Being More Loving.
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#13. Haw said, "Sometimes, Hem, things change and they are never the same again. This looks like one of those times. That's life! Life moves on. And so should we." Haw
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#15. As far as work goes, maybe instead of changing jobs, I should be changing the way I am doing my job. I'd probably have a better position by now if I did.
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#16. The fastest way to change is to laugh at your own folly
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#17. Haw smiled. He knew Hem was wondering, "Who moved my cheese?" but Haw was wondering, "Why didn't I get up and move with the Cheese, sooner?" As
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#18. You Create A Peak When You Truly Follow Your Sensible Vision. Your Fear Fades And You Become More Peaceful And Successful.
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#19. I think you have to be much more secure and much less angry to trust the simple. You've got to be in a pretty good place to trust those simple, obvious answers and, most important, to use them.
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#20. Pain is the difference between what is and what I want it to be.
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#22. It is safer to search in the maze than to remain in a cheeseless situation
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#23. Noticing small changes early helps you adapt to the bigger change that are to come
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#25. You Cannot Always Control External Events, But You Can Control Your Personal Peaks And Valleys By What You Believe And What You Do.
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#26. He learned the two new sports, and in the process, found that doing something new made him feel young. It wasn't long before his boss recognized
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#27. As Haw prepared to leave, he started to feel more alive, knowing that he was finally able to laugh at himself, let go and move on.
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#29. The quicker you let go of old cheese, the sooner you find new cheese.
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#32. Haw was beginning to realize the difference between activity and productivity.
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#33. Being in the uncomfortable zone is much better than staying in the cheese-less situation .
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#34. The Path Out Of The Valley Appears When You Choose To See Things Differently.
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#36. Change happens when the pain of holding on becomes greater than the fear of letting go.
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#37. Look At How You Feel About What Happened In The Past. Learn Something Valuable From It. Use What You Have Learned To Make Your Work And Life More Enjoyable Today.
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#38. The fear you let build up in your mind is worse than the situation that actually exist
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#39. You Change Your Valley Into A Peak When You Find And Use The Good That Is Hidden In The Bad Time.
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#40. Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
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#41. What you are afraid of is never as bad as what you imagine. The fear you let build up in your mind is worse than the situation that actually exists.
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#42. That when you change what you believe, you change what you do.
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#43. He had to admit that the biggest inhibitor to change lies within yourself, and that nothing gets better until you change.
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#44. Repeating the same behavior will just get you the same results. "As
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#45. I guess it's a lot better to initiate change while you can than it is to try to react and adjust to it. Maybe we should move our own Cheese." "What
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#46. He asked himself those some questions too many times and felt the fears again that kept him where he was
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#47. I was taking myself very seriously when I was going through life changes. And I realized that I needed to laugh at myself, particularly at my mistakes.
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#49. Then when I heard the story of Who Moved My Cheese?, I realized my job was to paint a picture of 'New Cheese' that we would all want to pursue, so we could enjoy changing and succeeding, whether it was at work or in life.
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#50. Finding inner success is the best, easiest and infact the only way to achieve and enjoy everything else in life.
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#52. Look at what happened in the Past. Learn something valuable from it. Do things differently in the present.
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#53. It Is Hard To Let Go Of The Past If You Have Not Learned From The Past. As Soon As You Learn And Let Go, You Improve The Present Today.
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#54. You have more fun and enjoy more financial success when you stop trying to get what you want and start helping other people get what they want.
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#56. Being In The Present Means Tuning Out Distractions And Paying Attention To What Is Important, Now. You Create Your Own Present By What You Give Your Attention To Today.
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#57. Some preliminary conversation, he said, You look like you're in a good place, despite the bad times I understand you've been through.
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#58. Smell The Cheese Often So You Know When It Is Getting Old Sometime
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#59. Sometimes, Hem, things change and they are never the same again. This looks like one of those times. That's life! Life moves on. And so should we.
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#60. I guess we resist changing, because we are afraid of change.
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#61. Life is no straight and easy corridor along which we travel free and unhampered, but a maze of passages, through which we must seek our way, lost and confused, now and again checked in a blind alley. But always, if we have faith, a door will open for us, not perhaps one that we ourselves
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#63. The Most Common Reason You Leave A Peak Too Soon Is Arrogance, Masquerading As Confidence. The Most Common Reason You Stay In A Valley Too Long Is Fear, Masquerading As Comfort.
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#64. Each of us has our own idea of what Cheese is, and we pursue it because we believe it makes us happy. If we get it, we often become attached to it. And if we lose it, or it's taken away, it can be traumatic. The
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#67. Between Peaks There Are Always Valleys. How You Manage Your Valley Determines How Soon You Reach Your Next Peak.
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#68. It Is Natural For Everyone Everywhere To Have Peaks And Valleys At Work And In Life.
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#69. I guess the question is, 'What do we need to let go of and what do we need to move on to?'" No
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#70. See what you're doing wrong, laugh at it, change and do better.
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#73. The More Important Your Cheese Is To You The More You Want To Hold On To It.
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#74. The man realized that what counted was not where a person lived, but how a person lived.
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#75. He knew sometimes some fear can be good. When you are afraid things are going to get worse if you don't do something, it can prompt you into action. But it is not good when you are afraid that it keeps you from doing anything.
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#76. And yet, as you know, living in constant white water with the changes occurring all the time at work or in life can be stressful, unless people have a way of looking at change that helps them understand it. Enter the Cheese story. When
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