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Trust your hunches... Hunches are usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.
Joyce Brothers
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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

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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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