Spencer Johnson (writer)

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.

Spencer Johnson

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.

Spencer Johnson

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.

Spencer Johnson

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.

Spencer Johnson

It is safer to search in the maze than to remain in a cheeseless situation.

Spencer Johnson

Old beliefs do not lead you to new cheese.

Spencer Johnson

Only when you stop doing what doesn’t work, can things get better.

Spencer Johnson

Sometimes we’re not even aware that we’re afraid.

Spencer Johnson

The man realized that what counted was not where a person lived, but how a person lived.

Spencer Johnson

The quicker you let go of old cheese, the sooner you find new cheese.

Spencer Johnson