Noam Shpancer Quotes

#1. A therapist who rushes to help forgets to listen.

Noam Shpancer

#2. It's a story you can break down and analyze and find analogies and lessons in it, and then it becomes a story about life. But you can also experience it whole, and then it's not a story about life. Then it is life.

Noam Shpancer

#3. The good psychologist is ambivalent about people, because he knows well their treacherous nature, their potential for destruction, delusion and deceit.

Noam Shpancer

#4. - I should be doing my homework now. But the way I look at it, playing in the snow is a lot more important. Out here I'm learning real skills that I can apply throughout the rest of my life.
- Such as?
- Procrastination and rationalization.

Bill Watterson

#5. There's poetry in everything, everything is music; just listen and you will hear it.

Noam Shpancer

#6. The choice in this life is not between easy and hard, but between kinds of hardship, between a hardship that gives birth to wisdom, compassion and mercy, and the hardship that keeps on replicating itself to no end.

Noam Shpancer

#7. I think it's sexy when women have shapely bodies.

Jaime Pressly

#8. This moment of yours, and the telling of it, these are the tools of navigating the internal space. Knowing the moment and knowing about the moment.

Noam Shpancer

#9. Memory is not a storage place but a story we tell ourselves in retrospect. As such, it is made of storytelling materials: embroidery and forgery, perplexity and urgency, revelation and darkness.

Noam Shpancer

#10. Knowledge imprisons you. You cannot escape it. What you know you cannot unknow. That's why knowledge is dangerous. Learning will redefine your world, irreversibly.

Noam Shpancer

#11. Romanticism tells us that in order to make the most of our human potential we must have as many different experiences as we can.

Yuval Noah Harari

#12. The process is important, regardless of the outcome, just ask Schacter.
( ... )mental health ... is not a destination but a process. It's about how you drive, not where you're going. The therapist is like a driving instuctor, not a chauffeur.

Noam Shpancer

#13. Observermanship is the art of giving the impression that you are with it even though you don't know Latin very well.

Robert McAfee Brown

#14. The idea that memory is linear is nonsense. What we have in our heads is a collection of frames. As to time itself-can it be linear when all these snatches of other presents exist at once in your mind? A very elusive and tricky concept, time.

Penelope Lively

#15. If you give what you do not need, it is not giving.

Mother Teresa

#16. Many of the people who are most considered anti-American would love to partake of the American dream: the unspoken slogan of many protesters outside U.S. embassies abroad is really: 'Yankee go home, but take me with you.'

Shashi Tharoor

#17. No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.

Henry Ward Beecher

#18. Leadership is not about personality, possessions, or charisma, but all about who you are as a person. I used to believe that leadership was about style but now I know that leadership is about substance, namely character.

James Hunter

#19. One the other hand, the publishing trend is ghastly, isn't it? Two hundred and something distributors are now down to 10 or 12? And what's the recruiting drive?

Jerry Pournelle

#20. It's the great surprise of my life that I ended up loving [my father] so much.

Pat Conroy

#21. A direct relationship exists between the caliber of the writing you read and the caliber of the writing you make.

Robert Benson

#22. [ ... ] the first lesson about the nature of memory: what you wish to forget, you may not be able to. What seems to have died, perhaps is just asleep.

Noam Shpancer

#23. If different systems don't merge in a comprehensible way, that's a flaw in our comprehension and not a flaw in one system or the other.

Marilynne Robinson