Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the crudest words.
Joyce BrothersRead
Trust your hunches... Hunches are usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Trusting your intuition can lead to valuable insights and decisions.
This quote emphasizes the importance of trusting one's instincts or gut feelings, which are often informed by subconscious knowledge and past experiences. Joyce Brothers suggests that our intuition can serve as a powerful guide, as it is rooted in facts and information that we might not be consciously aware of.
Themes
IntuitionHunchesTrustWisdomDecisions
In practice
Example use cases
In a motivational speech about decision-making, one might say, 'As Joyce Brothers wisely noted, trust your hunches.'
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Don't always try to be popular. It isn't possible for everyone to like you. It's far more important for you to like yourself. And when you respect yourself, strangely, you get more respect than when you court it from others.
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Feeling gratitude isn't born in us-it's something we are taught, and in turn, we teach our children.
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Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can and surely will at times fail. Other vulnerabilities, like being embarrassed or risking love, can be terrifying, too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.
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Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.
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