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• If I were to give off-the-cuff advice to anyone trying to institute change, I would say, "How clear is the metaphor?"

  Warren G. Bennis

  Change, Giving, Trying

  "Leadership: Sad Facts and Silver Linings" by Thomas J. Peters, hbr.org. December 2001.

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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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• 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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• Win any way as long as you can get away with it. Nice guys finish last.

  Leo Durocher

  Motivational, Teamwork, Sports

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• SOLIDAO, LONELINESS. What is it that we call loneliness. It can't simply be the absence of others, you can be alone and not lonely, and you can be among people and yet be lonely. So what is it? ... it isn't only that others are there, that they fill up the space next to us. But even when they celebrate us or give advice in a friendly conversation, clever, sensitive advice: even then we can be lonely. So loneliness is not something simply connected with the presence of others or with what they do. Then what? What on earth?

  Pascal Mercier

  Lonely, Clever, Loneliness

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The worst advice in golf is, 'Keep your head down.'

  Patty Sheehan

  Golf, Worst

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• The best practical advice I can give to the present generation is to practice the virtue which the Christians call love.

  Bertrand Russell

  Love, Christian, Kindness

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• We are all prone to the malady of the introvert who with the manifold spectacle of the world spread out before him, turns away and gazes only upon the emptiness within.

  Bertrand Russell

  Solitude, World, Emptiness

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.60, W. W. Norton & Company

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• We are apt to be very pert at censuring others, where we will not endure advice.

  William Penn

  Endure

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.25, Courier Corporation

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• Fools need advice most, but wise men only are the better for it.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wise, Men, Needs

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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• Trust not to your feelings for whatever they might be now, they will quickly be changed towards some other thing.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Feelings, Might, Changed

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• Woman's advice has little value, but he who won't take it is a fool.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Littles, Fool, Values

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• Three may keep counsel, if two be away.

  John Heywood

  Two, Three, May

  John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.447

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• Where's the man who counsel can bestow, still pleased to teach, and yet not proud to know.

  Alexander Pope

  Men, Proud, He Man

  Alexander Pope (2012). “Essay on Man and Other Poems”, p.20, Courier Corporation

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