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> [“A therapist who rushes to help forgets to listen.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-shpancer/a-therapist-who-rushes-to-help-forgets-to-listen/)

[Noam Shpancer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-shpancer/)

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> [“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.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-shpancer/the-process-is-important-regardless-of-the-outcome-just-ask-schacter/)

[Noam Shpancer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-shpancer/)

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## Other authors on Therapist

## More by Noam Shpancer

> [“...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.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-shpancer/knowledge-imprisons-you-you-cannot-escape-it-what-you-know-you-cannot/)

[Noam Shpancer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-shpancer/)

> [“A therapist who rushes to help forgets to listen.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-shpancer/a-therapist-who-rushes-to-help-forgets-to-listen/)

[Noam Shpancer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-shpancer/)

> [“The good psychologist is ambivalent about people, because he knows well their treacherous nature, their potential for destruction, delusion and deceit.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-shpancer/the-good-psychologist-is-ambivalent-about-people-because-he-knows/)

[Noam Shpancer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-shpancer/)

> [“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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-shpancer/it-s-a-story-you-can-break-down-and-analyze-and-find-analogies-and/)

[Noam Shpancer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-shpancer/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-shpancer/the-process-is-important-regardless-of-the-outcome-just-ask-schacter/)

[Noam Shpancer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-shpancer/)

> [ “\[...\] that's why waiting for perfect understanding and clarity before diving into the therapeutic waters is like waiting for the perfect woman before getting… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-shpancer/that-s-why-waiting-for-perfect-understanding-and-clarity-before/)

[Noam Shpancer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-shpancer/)

> [ “\[...\] the first lesson about the nature of memory: what you wish to forget, you may not be able to. What seems to have… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-shpancer/the-first-lesson-about-the-nature-of-memory-what-you-wish-to-forget/)

[Noam Shpancer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-shpancer/)

> [“...here we have the first lesson about the nature of memory: what you wish to forget, you may not be able to. What seems…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-shpancer/here-we-have-the-first-lesson-about-the-nature-of-memory-what-you/)

[Noam Shpancer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-shpancer/)

> [“Memory is not a storage place but a story we tell ourselves in retrospect. As such, it is made of storytelling materials: embroidery and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-shpancer/memory-is-not-a-storage-place-but-a-story-we-tell-ourselves-in/)

[Noam Shpancer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-shpancer/)

> [“The frame, the definition, is a type of context. And context, as we said before, determines the meaning of things. There is no such…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-shpancer/the-frame-the-definition-is-a-type-of-context-and-context-as-we-said/)

[Noam Shpancer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-shpancer/)

> [“This moment of yours, and the telling of it, these are the tools of navigating the internal space. Knowing the moment and knowing about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-shpancer/this-moment-of-yours-and-the-telling-of-it-these-are-the-tools-of/)

[Noam Shpancer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-shpancer/)

> [“The choice in this life is not between easy and hard, but between kinds of hardship, between a hardship that gives birth to wisdom,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-shpancer/the-choice-in-this-life-is-not-between-easy-and-hard-but-between/)

[Noam Shpancer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-shpancer/)

> [“There's poetry in everything, everything is music; just listen and you will hear it.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-shpancer/there-s-poetry-in-everything-everything-is-music-just-listen-and-you/)

[Noam Shpancer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-shpancer/)

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