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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