Advice Quotes - Page 13

• Never let your inferiors do you a favor - it will be extremely costly.

  H. L. Mencken

  Wise, Work, Favors

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.616, Vintage

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• Most of us are experts at solving other people's problems, but we generally solve them in terms of our own and the advice we give is seldom for other people but for ourselves.

  Nan Fairbrother

  Happiness, Giving, People

  Nan Fairbrother (1965). “The House”

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• I have all my life long been lying in bed till noon; yet I tell all young men, and tell them with great sincerity, that nobody who does not rise early will ever do any good.

  Samuel Johnson

  Lying, Men, Long

  In James Boswell 'Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides' (1785) 14 September 1773

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• Sadly, some folks want others to feel their pain, to hurt as much as they do-or more. My grandmother once told me to avoid colds and angry people whenever I could. It's sound advice.

  Walter Inglis Anderson

  Hurt, Pain, Anger

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• Don't take too much advice. Most people who have a lot of advice to give ~ with a few exceptions ~ generalize whatever they did. Don't over-analyze everything. I myself have been guilty of over-thinking problems. Just build things and find out if they work.

  Ben Silbermann

  Business, Thinking, Giving

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• When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance.

  Anatole Broyard

  Friendship, Being Sad, Radiance

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• If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.

  Tryon Edwards

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.717, Ravenio Books

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• My most important piece of advice to all you would-be writers: when you write, try to leave out all the parts readers skip.

  Elmore Leonard

  Writing, Important, Trying

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• When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Children, Giving, Treats

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• Never take advice from someone you wouldn't trade places with.

  Kelly Clarkson

  Self Esteem, Trade, Esteem

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• No engineer can go upon a new work and not find something peculiar, that will demand his careful reflection, and the deliberate consideration of any advice that he may receive; and nothing so fully reveals his incapacity as a pretentious assumption of knowledge, claiming to understand everything.

  John B. Jervis

  Hard Work, Knowledge, Science

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• I don't think it is possible to give tips for finding one's voice; it's one of those things for which there aren't really any tricks or shortcuts, or even any advice that necessarily translates from writer to writer. All I can tell you is to write as much as possible.

  Poppy Z. Brite

  Writing, Thinking, Voice

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• Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.

  Steve Landesberg

  Funny, Sarcastic, Truth

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• If one takes care of the means, the end will take care of itself.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Business, Mean, Care

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.89, Courier Corporation

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• The trouble with much of the advice business is getting today about the need to be more vigorously creative is, essentially, that its advocates have generally failed to distinguish between the relatively easy process of being creative in the abstract and the infinitely more difficult process of being innovationist in the concrete.

  Theodore Levitt

  Business, Creative, Needs

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• Be humble, for the worst thing in the world is of the same stuff as you; be confident, for the stars are of the same stuff as you.

  Nikolaj Velimirovic

  Life, Confidence, Stars

  Nikolaj Velimirović (1916). “Serbia in Light and Darkness”

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• My advice to actresses is don't worry about your looks. The very thing that makes you unhappy in your appearance may be the one thing to make you a star.

  Estelle Winwood

  Stars, Worry, Unhappy

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• Don't be afraid to take advice. There's always something new to learn.

  Babe Ruth

  Motivational, Baseball, Something New

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• To the lost man, to the pioneer penetrating a new country, to the naturalist who wishes to see the wild land at its wildest, the advice is always the same - follow a river. The river is the original forest highway. It is nature's own Wilderness Road.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Country, Men, Land

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• These are the four abuses: desire to succeed in order to make oneself famous; taking credit for the labors of others; refusal to correct one's errors despite advice; refusal to change one's ideas despite warnings.

  Confucius

  Humility, Order, Ideas

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• I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Events, Realistic, Said

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• Don't listen to anyone's advice. Listen to your baby ... There are so many books, doctors, and well-meaning friends and family. We like to say, 'You don't need a book. Your baby is a book. Just pick it up and read it.'

  Mayim Bialik

  Mom, Mother, Baby

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• My advice if you insist on slimming: Eat as much as you like - just don't swallow it.

  Harry Secombe

  Loss, Dieting, Funny Diet

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• The best advice I can give for playing a ball out of water is - don't.

  Tony Lema

  Golf, Giving, Water

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• If I would follow your advice and Jesus could perceive it, he, as a Jewish teacher, surely would not approve of such behavior.

  Albert Einstein

  Teacher, Jesus, Christ

  Robert N. Goldman, Albert Einstein (1997). “Einstein's God: Albert Einstein's Quest as a Scientist and as a Jew to Replace a Forsaken God”, Jason Aronson Incorporated

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