Joy Behar Quotes

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.

I have reached a place in my life where I need to sit down and say, 'Well, what do I do? What's best for me?' I need to look into options for the future.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

I have done some tacky films, but then they were all my decisions, and I'm happy to have made those because they have made me who I am.

Everything I did and continue to do happens for a reason, and honestly, I don't regret much in my life.

I meet people in my daily life, people who seem to experience some change and some growth on a personal level, and that gives me hope.

The genesis of the Thinking Talent app came from wanting to create a way to scale self-discovery with a framework that we, personally, inside of the company, have used really successfully.

I find that comforting and an equally purposeful way to think, that there's lots of ways to flex both your strengths and your weaknesses.

I believe when people can find out who they are, then you can be equipped to handle life's situations.

The shape of your character is the shape of your future.

It's been one of the most important tools for me in personal growth for understanding myself, how I am, and what effect I do have on other people.

I don't think you learn as much about yourself when you are moving forwards as when you have fallen backwards. That's when you really learn who you are. And reach for the things that have propelled you forward and made you a better person.

Young people in general - and young women in particular - need to understand that they cannot retrieve in their forties the opportunities they threw away in their twenties.

It's important to stay true to yourself. You have to know your weaknesses and recruit support when and where you need it.

Every decision you make - every decision that you make every second - is not a decision about what to do, it is a decision about who you are. Every act is an act of self-definition.

Many leadership problems are driven by low self-awareness.

The reason people don't know what is good for them is because most people don't know what they are trying to do.

People are experience-rich and theory-poor. I help people organize / make sense of their experiences.

I don’t regret any of the decisions I’ve made in my life. Because with every choice I’ve made, I’ve learned something new.

We are all living this dance and it is clearly fraught with making choices. Lots of my choices are bad and that's normal. None of us are attractive at all times. What is attractive to me is authenticity.

I'm always asking people to do something in their mind [first]. So if they're gonna do one exercise, it would be to ask themselves what they want to change about themselves in the next 12 weeks. Once they solve that, the body will follow.

A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.

How much can you know about yourself if you've never been in a fight?

Get to know yourself. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all... Knowing yourself and knowing the facts, you can judge whether you can change the situation so it is more to your liking. If you cannot--or if you do not know how to improve on things--then discipline yourself to the adjustments that will be necessary.