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Authors & Writing
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If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.
-Joyce Brothers, On KNBR radio station (San Francisco), November 13, 1990
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Commitment
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If your energy is as boundless as your ambition, total commitment may be a way of life you should seriously consider.
-Joyce Brothers
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Debt / Borrow / Loan
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Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately, and it gives you a lift. The hangover comes the day after.
-Joyce Brothers
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Dreams
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Before your dreams can come true, you have to have those dreams.
-Joyce Brothers
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Intuition
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Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.
-Joyce Brothers
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Listening
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Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.
-Joyce Brothers
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Love
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Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.
-Joyce Brothers
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The best proof of love is trust.
-Joyce Brothers
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Marriage
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Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.
-Joyce Brothers
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Mistakes
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The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.
-Joyce Brothers
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Risk
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Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can -- and surely will at times -- fail. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.
-Joyce Brothers
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Sailing
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There is a rule in sailing where the more maneuverable ship should give way to the less maneuverable craft. I think this is sometimes a good rule to follow in human relationships as well.
-Joyce Brothers, In Pearls of Wisdom, ed. J. Agel and W. Glanze, 1987
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Self Respect
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An individual's self-concept is the core of his personality. It affects every aspect of human behavior: the ability to learn, the capacity to grow and change . . . . A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success in life.
-Joyce Brothers
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Success & Failure
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Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
-Joyce Brothers
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Trust
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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted person in another person's life.
-Joyce Brothers
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Wealth
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The world at large does not judge us by who we are and what we know; it judges us by what we have.
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Don't fool yourself that you are going to have it all. You are not. Psychologically, having it all is not even a valid concept. The marvelous thing about human beings is that we are perpetually reaching for the stars. The more we have, the more we want. And for this reason, we never have it all.
-Joyce Brothers, The Successful Woman 1988
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Books by and about Joyce Brothers