Advice Quotes - Page 24

• The only advice I can give you is what you're telling yourself. Only, maybe you're too scared to listen.

  Neil Gaiman

  Giving, Scared, I Can

  Neil Gaiman (2010). “Neverwhere”, p.138, Hachette UK

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• me giving my mom romantic advice is kind of like a goldfish giving a snail advice on how to fly.” -Will Grayson (pg. 66)

  David Levithan

  Mom, Giving, Goldfish

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• Garrett," said Stendahl, "do you know why I've done this to you? Because you burned Mr. Poe's books without really reading them. You took other people's advice that they needed burning. Otherwise you'd have realized what I was going to do to you when we came down here a moment ago. Ignorance is fatal, Mr. Garrett.

  Ray Bradbury

  Book, Reading, Ignorance

  Ray Bradbury (2000). “Bradbury Stories”

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• It is better to have a little than nothing.

  Publilius Syrus

  Littles, Nothingness

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• My advice for aspiring writers is go to New York. And if you can’t go to New York, go to the place that represents New York to you, where the standards for writing are high, there are other people who share your dreams, and where you can talk, talk, talk about your interests. Writing books begins in talking about it, like most human projects, and in being close to those who have already done what you propose to do.

  Walter Kirn

  Dream, New York, Book

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• One last word of advice, though, Mr. Okada, though you may not want to hear this. There are things in this world it is better not to know about. Of course, those are the very things that people most want to know about. It's strange.

  Haruki Murakami

  People, World, May

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• If you are out of trouble, watch for danger.

  Sophocles

  Watches, Trouble, Danger

  David Grene, Sophocles (1959). “Sophocles”, [Chicago] : University of Chicago Press

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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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• A short way into Teen Vogue I realized that teens see it as a guide for their lives and their careers, more than a place to teach them how to get boys. And they don't ask us fashion advice questions; they're too sophisticated. They're inspired by what they see and they think, 'These people at this magazine represent what I want to be, beyond shoes and makeup.'

  Amy Astley

  Fashion, Boys, Makeup

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• Stupid people always ignored good advice

  Johanna Lindsey

  Stupid, People, Ignored

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• A word of advice, Will Henry. When a person of the female gender says she wants to show you something, run the other way. The odds are it is not something you wish to see.

  Rick Yancey

  Running, Odds, Wish

  Rick Yancey (2010). “The Curse of the Wendigo”, p.193, Simon and Schuster

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• The number one piece of advice I would share is to recruit a mentor. Find someone you admire who is at least one generation older, and has no direct authority over you. Lack of context and perspective can cost you months and years--with a bad career choice, an unwise relocation, short-term negotiating posture, and, generally speaking, sophomoric thinking.

  Bing Gordon

  Thinking, Years, Careers

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• What's the basis when rappers don't know the basics?
  Still not takin' advice from those I wouldn't trade places with.

  Skeme

  Rap, Hip Hop, Basics

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• I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Mistake, Bats, Human Bondage

  W. Somerset Maugham (2016). “Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)”, p.352, Diversion Books

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• So there was a constant flow and a thin line there between reality and television and yes, much of what I was experiencing in my real life was also what was going on in the television show to the extent that I had to take writers advice and from the counselors around.

  Alan Thicke

  Real, Television, Lines

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• My personal advice is to go to school first and get a liberal arts education, and then if you want to pursue acting, go to graduate school.

  Jillian Bach

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• A Lincolnesque leader is confident enough to be humble - to not feel the need to bluster or dominate, but to be sufficiently sure of one's own judgment and self-worth to really listen and not be threatened by contrary advice.

  Evan Thomas

  Leadership, Humble, Self Worth

  Evan Thomas, Staff of Newsweek (2009). “A Long Time Coming: The Inspiring, Combative 2008 Campaign and the Historic Election of Barack Obama”, p.186, PublicAffairs

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• Pension reforms, like investment advice and automatic enrollment, will strengthen the ability of Americans to save and invest for retirement.

  Steve Bartlett

  Retirement, Reform, Enrollment

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• Again, men tell us that our preaching should be positive and not negative, that we can preach the truth without attacking error. But if we follow that advice we shall have to close our Bible and desert its teachings. The New Testament is a polemic book almost from beginning to end ... It is when men have felt compelled to take a stand against error that they have risen to the really great heights in the celebration of the truth

  John Gresham Machen

  Book, Teaching, Men

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• When you need advice- do you seek someone who has proven success or do you get advice from people who have never achieved what you desire?

  Robert G. Allen

  Inspirational, Success, People

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• The worst piece of advice I've gotten in my whole career is from somebody who said, Remember, it's all about likeability.

  Clive Owen

  Careers, Pieces, Remember

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• Don't hesitate to seek external help or advice where need be. Sometimes, it takes an external, emotionally unattached individual to detect your business flaws and render unbiased advice.

  Richard Branson

  Survival, Needs, Unbiased

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• Nobody can give you advice after you've been collecting for a while. If you don't enjoy making your own decisions, you're never going to be much of a collector anyway.

  Charles Saatchi

  Giving, Decision, Investing

  Charles Saatchi (2009). “My Name is Charles Saatchi and I Am an Artoholic”, Phaidon Press

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• When we want to do something while unconsciously certain to fail, we seek advice so we can blame someone else for the failure.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Blame Someone, Want, Failing

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.1709, Random House

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• I am reminded, now, of Leonardo's advice to painters: You should fix your eyes, he says, on certain walls stained with damp. You will see in these the likenesses of divine landscapes, adorned with mountains, ruins, rocks, extensive plains; and you will see there battles and strange figures engaged in violent actions. For in such walls the same thing happens as in the sound of church bells, in whose reverberations you may find every word imaginable.

  Ciaran Carson

  Wall, Eye, Church Bells

  Ciaran Carson (2001). “Shamrock Tea”, Granta Books

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