Advice Quotes - Page 18

• Giving advice was a lot harder than following it.

  Richelle Mead

  Giving, Harder, Following

  Richelle Mead (2008). “Shadow Kiss: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.160, Penguin

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• Ornon said, "I have seen him jump across atriums four stories above the ground, a distance that would make your blood freeze, and I heard him once confess that he sometimes thinks the distance is beyond him. He always jumps, Your Majesty. The Thieves are not trained in self-preservation. I beg you would take my advice.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Distance, Thinking, Self

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• Who would condescend to strike down the mere things that he does not fear? Who would debase himself to be merely brave, like any common prizefighter? Who would stoop to be fearless--like a tree? Fight the thing that you fear. You remember the old tale of the English clergyman who gave the last rites to the brigand of Sicily, and how on his death-bed the great robber said, 'I can give you no money, but I can give you advice for a lifetime: your thumb on the blade, and strike upwards.' So I say to you, strike upwards, if you strike at the stars.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Stars, Fighting, Giving

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.201, Simon and Schuster

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• The fourth way to get a boy to like you is to be yourself. Now, I am contractually obligated as an adult to give that advice, even though it doesn't work. But yeah, be yourself, even though no one has any idea what it means to be yourself. Like whose self would I otherwise be being?

  John Green

  Being Yourself, Mean, Boys

  YouTube Chanel "vlogbrothers" / "How to Make Guys Like You", www.youtube.com. February 24, 2009.

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• If I couldn't be Eddis, I would be Attolia. If they needed to see my uncle in me, then I would show him to them. And I would take Attolia's advice because if I identified my enemy and destroyed him, Sounis would be safe.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Uncles, Enemy, Would Be

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• I understand what you're saying, and your comments are valuable, but I'm gonna ignore your advice.

  Roald Dahl

  Twits, Valuable, Comment

  "Fictional character: Mr. F.F. "Foxy" Fox". "Fantastic Mr. Fox", 2009.

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• I am not breaking my rules,' I snapped, hating that I'd ended up on the advice-recieving end of things, jumping from Dear Remy to Confused in Cincinnati all in one summer.

  Sarah Dessen

  Summer, Hate, Confused

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• We can retreat and retreat and let ourselves get backed into corners forever,” she’d said once. “Or we can go out and meet the enemy at the time and place we choose. Not them.” Okay, Tasha, I thought. Let’s see if your advice gets me killed.

  Richelle Mead

  Forever, Enemy, Retreat

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• One of the greatest pieces of advice I've ever gotten in my life was from my mom. When I was a little kid there was a kid who was bugging me at school and she said "Okay, I'm gonna tell you what to do. If the kid's bugging you and puts his hands on you; you pick up the nearest rock.

  Johnny Depp

  Mom, School, Kids

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• Take my advice and live for a long, long time. Because the maddest thing a man can do is this life is to let himself die.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Men, Long, Life Is

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• I was under the impression that I warned you that in London country ways will not do, Frederica!” “You did!” she retorted. “And although I can’t say that I paid much heed to your advice it so happens that I am accompanied today by my aunt!” “Who adds invisibility to her other accomplishments!

  Georgette Heyer

  Country, Aunt, Accomplishment

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• Advice!Nobody tells us how to be men. We just are." "That is probably why you make such a bad job of it.- Perrin and Egwene

  Robert Jordan

  Jobs, Men, Be A Man

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• Best advice I've ever received: Finish.

  Peter Mayle

  Best Advice

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• I had to persuade a dog to swallow a pill. I twittered for advice and I got suggestion after suggestion. Most of them didn't work. 'Put the pill in the sausage.' No - that doesn't work. 'Cheese.' No. Then someone said: 'You wrap it in butter and it will slide down.' I tried it and it worked! And I'd learnt how to give a pill to a dog through the magic of Twitter.

  Neil Gaiman

  Dog, Giving, Magic

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• The best parenting advice I ever got was from a labor nurse who told me the following: 1. After your baby gets here, the dog will just be a dog. 2. The terrible twos last through age three. 3. Never ask your child an open-ended question, such as "Do you want to go to bed now?" You won't want to hear the answer, believe me. "Do you want me to carry you upstairs, or do you want to walk upstairs to go to bed?" That way, you get the outcome you want and they feel empowered.

  Jodi Picoult

  Baby, Dog, Children

  "House Rules". Book by Jodi Picoult, March 2, 2010.

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• I’m always intrigued by my nonsensical concern with picking out a bunch of things that look exactly alike the ones that somehow I feel are the best and belong to me. It’s that same crazy urge or superstition, or whatever it is, that makes me open a Bible in a hotel room, hoping for some great happenstance spiritual word of advice. More often than not, I hit a long passage of begats and begots, which contain little inspiration other than the fact that procreation is the highest aim of life.

  Vincent Price

  Spiritual, Crazy, Inspiration

  Vincent Price (2016). “The Book of Joe: About a Dog and His Man”, p.84, Open Road Media

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• The future could go this way, that way. The future's futures have never looked so rocky. Don't put money on it. Take my advice and stick to the present. It's the real stuff, the only stuff, it's all there is, the present, the panting present.

  Martin Amis

  Real, Stuff, Way

  FaceBook post by Martin Amis from Jun 24, 2013

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• Listen to no one's advice except that of the wind in the trees. That can recount the whole history of mankind.

  Claude Debussy

  Wind, Tree, Mankind

  "The Life of the Creative Spirit". Book by H. Charles Romesburg, 2001.

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• Don't ever write anything you don't like yourself and if you do like it, don't take anyone's advice about changing it. They just don't know.

  Raymond Chandler

  Writing, Like Yourself, Knows

  Raymond Chandler (1987). “Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler”, Delta

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• Let me give you a piece of advice. The handsome young fellow who's trying to rescue you from a hideous fate is never wrong. Not even if he says the sky is purple and made of hedgehogs.

  Cassandra Clare

  Fate, Sky, Purple

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Angel”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• Traditional religions practices are important.They allow us to share with others the communal experience of adoration and prayer,but we must never forget spiritual experience is above all a practical experience of love,and with love,there are no rules some may try to control their emotions and develop strategies for their behavior,others may turn to reading books of advice from "experts" on relationships but this is all folly.The heart decides and what it decides is all that really matters.

  Paulo Coelho

  Spiritual, Prayer, Book

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• All the well-meaning advice in the world won't amount to a hill of beans if we're not even addressing the real problem.

  Stephen Covey

  Real, Effectiveness, World

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.262, Simon and Schuster

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• And my piece of advice is...don't flirt with any of the female instructors. They all have access to weapons bigger than yours.

  Simone Elkeles

  Flirting, Female, Pieces

  Simone Elkeles (2010). “How to Ruin a Summer Vacation”, p.70, North Star Editions, Inc.

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• Write what you know will always be excellent advice for those who ought not to write at all. Write what you think, what you imagine, what you suspect!

  Gore Vidal

  Writing, Thinking, Imagine

  Gore Vidal (1999). “The Essential Gore Vidal”, Random House Incorporated

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• Here's some advice. Stay alive.

  Suzanne Collins

  Alive, Hunger Games Book, Effie Trinket

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.51, Scholastic Inc.

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