This date in 1928 was the birth of Dr. Joyce Brothers, a TV psychologist who first gained fame in 1955 by becoming the only woman ever to win the
game show The $64,000 Question, with a specialist subject of
boxing. Boxing had not been her choice of topic, but the one suggested to
her by the sponsors. She figured she could get by by reading every
book on boxing that she could find and allow her excellent memory to
do the rest. There were allegations that the quiz shows were rigged,
but Brothers insisted (and it was later proved) that she had never
cheated. Her
success on The $64,000 Question earned Brothers a chance to be
a commentator for the boxing match between Carmen Basilio and Sugar
Ray Robinson. She was said to be the first woman to ever be a boxing
commentator. Which is just a couple of interesting facts and then I couldn't find any more so I switched to quotations instead:
- Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
- Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.
- A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success.
- The best proof of love is trust.
- Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.
- The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.
- Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.
- If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.
- The cynic finds love with the idealist. The rebel with the conformist. The social butterfly with the bookworm. They help each other balance their lives.
- I have found in work that you only get back what you put into it, but it does come back gift-wrapped.
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