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People who succeed in business have the single-minded devotion to their goal that is best described as total commitment.
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If you know what it is you want out of life and you are totally committed to working for it, then all sorts of opportunities open up.
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No matter how successful a woman is, men are more successful. Men earn a shocking 75 percent more than women.
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People who have success potential are people who want and need accomplishment feedback. They like to succeed. And they want to know when they have succeed. They want achievement recognized.
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The pursuit of riches sentences an individual to one of life's treadmills. It is truly a treadmill, because it is psychologically impossible for most Wealth Seekers to stop the pursuit, to say, "That's enough. I am as rich as I want to be." There is no end to the riches they want to acquire.
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Women who are confident of their abilities are more likely to succeed than those who lack confidence, even though the latter may be much more competent and talented and industrious.
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Scientists still know less about what attracts men than they do about what attracts mosquitoes.
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Love, real love, is not simply a state of bliss. It is an ever-changing state, the result of time and emotional development, of trust and commitment.
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It is a man's world at the top, at the bottom, and in between. Men are in the catbird seat as far as income, opportunity, status, and power are concerned. This is the way it always has been and, as far as men are concerned, it is the way it always should be.
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They say that money is not everything. I say that when you don't have any, it is everything.
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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.
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Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.
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It is not so much a question of what love is as of what love does.
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In each of us are places where we have never gone. Only by pressing the limits do you ever find them.
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When you look at your life the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.
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Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the cruelest words.
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Whatever a man thinks about sex, you can be sure that he thinks about sex almost constantly.
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For some reason, we see divorce as a signal of failure despite the fact that each of us has a right and an obligation to rectify any other mistake we make in life.
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When you come right down to it, the secret of having it all is loving it all.
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"We treat each other well" In strong families, positive strokes outnumber negative broadsides by a wide margin. Members regularly express appreciation: "Thanks for fixing the drainpipe." "you look so nice in that dress." "The dinner was great" Criticism is offered gently. After all, strong families figure, if we can be kind to strangers, why not to one another.
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Strong families use the word "we" a lot, but "I" is never forgotten. Family members know they have the freedom to go off on their own, even if the direction is one that "we" have never followed before. The family message is, "We're behind you, so you can be you."
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In strong families, positive strokes out-number negative broadsides by a wide margin. Members regularly express appreciation: "Thanks for fixing the drainpipe." "You look so nice in that dress." "The dinner was great." Criticism is offered gently. After all, strong families figure, if we can be kind to strangers, why not to one another?
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Strong families value their extended family, particularly grandparents. In one study of college students, a majority thought their interactions with grandparents reflected high family strengths. It's important to create continuity between generations, passing along traditions and making roots ever stronger, so the tree continues to reach for the sun.
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The simple but observable fact is that the more you love, the more you are able to love.
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Marriage is not just spiritual communion and passionate embraces; marriage is also three meals a day, sharing the workload and remembering to carry out the trash.
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Born:
October 20, 1927
Died:
May 13, 2013
(aged 85)
Bio:
Joyce Diane Brothers was an American psychologist, television personality and columnist, who wrote a daily newspaper advice column from 1960 to 2013.
Known for:
Widowed (1990)
What Every Woman Should Know About Men (1981)
How to Get Whatever You Want Out of Life (1978)
Positive plus (1994)
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