Advice Quotes - Page 25

• Filled with great advice, practical support, and steamy, imaginative suggestions for how to have an exciting, challenging, satisfying sex life.

  Karen X. Tulchinsky

  Sex, Support, Challenges

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• If I had to limit my advice on healthier living to just one tip, it would be simply to learn how to breathe correctly.

  Andrew Weil

  Breathing, Would Be, Limits

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• One Blue Dog Democratic House Member reminded me earlier this month of the saying that 'insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.' He wondered if his fellow Members weren't more in need of advice from psychiatrists than from economists at this point.

  John Fund

  Dog, Blue, House

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• Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Writing, Ironic, Irony

  "Unkempt Thoughts". Book by Stanislaw Jerzy Lec, 1962.

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• Empathy is a respectful understanding of what others are experiencing. Instead of offering empathy, we often have a strong urge to give advice or reassurance and to explain our own position or feeling. Empathy, however, calls upon us to empty our mind and listen to others with our whole being.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Respect, Strong, Offering

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• Who are the people, for example, to whom you go for advice? Not to the hard, practical ones who can tell you exactly what to do, but to the listeners; that is, the kindest, least censorious, least bossy people you know. It is because by pouring out your problem to them, you then know what to do about it yourself.

  Brenda Ueland

  People, Listening, Example

  Brenda Ueland (1993). “Strength to Your Sword Arm: Selected Writings”, Holy Cow Press

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• I have often heard that the outstanding man is he who thinks deeply about a problem, and the next is he who listens carefully to advice.

  Livy

  Men, Thinking, Listening

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• It's very, very hard to speak truth to power when the truth is unpleasant. I think it's one of the toughest things especially a young person has to do and the only way you can do it is if you're willing to walk out the door if he doesn't take your advice. Or if you're willing to walk out the door if he goes over the line.

  David Gergen

  Thinking, Doors, Lines

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• Treat every piece of advice as a gift or a compliment and simply say, “Thank you.

  Marshall Goldsmith

  Pieces, Compliment, Saying Thank You

  Marshall Goldsmith (2008). “What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful”, p.118, Profile Books

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• The darker the night, the brighter the stars.

  Vasily Rozanov

  Life, Good Night, Stars

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• My advice to you is be boring, square, asshole parents... When I have kids, the most recent CD I will own - Phil Collins, No Jacket Required, and I'll rave about it. 'Do you like rock 'n' roll? 'Cause this is rockin' good stuff, kid.'

  Patton Oswalt

  Kids, Squares, Rocks

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• So here's something I know to be true, although it's a little corny, and I don't quite know what to do with it.

  George Saunders

  Littles, Corny, Grad

  George Saunders (2014). “Congratulations, by the way: Some Thoughts on Kindness”, p.17, Random House

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• Now, we don't really believe these things - intellectually we know better - but we believe them viscerally, and live by them, and they cause us to prioritize our own needs over the needs of others, even though what we really want, in our hearts, is to be less selfish, more aware of what's actually happening in the present moment, more open, and more loving.

  George Saunders

  Selfish, Believe, Heart

  "George Saunders’s Advice to Graduates". George Saunders' Speech at Syracuse University for the class of 2013, 6thfloor.blogs.nytimes.com. July 31, 2013.

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• Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns, whoreoscopes, Hollywood gossip, and moral dilemmas on the level of TV soap operas. What litanies the advertisers of the good life chanted at you! What curious catechisms!

  Erica Jong

  Love, Song, Good Life

  Erica Jong (2013). “Fear of Flying: 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.27, Open Road Media

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• If you find yourself talking to the police, my advice is to stay calm but look guilty; it's your safest bet.

  Ben Aaronovitch

  Talking, Police, Finding Yourself

  Ben Aaronovitch (2011). “Midnight Riot”, p.52, Del Rey

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• I don't believe anything really revolutionary has ever been invented by committee... I'm going to give you some advice that might be hard to take. That advice is: Work alone... Not on a committee. Not on a team.

  Steve Wozniak

  Team, Believe, Giving

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• These are all direct quotes, except every time they use a curse word, I'm going to use the name of a famous American poet: 'You Walt Whitman-ing, Edna St. Vincent Millay! Go Emily Dickinson your mom!' 'Thanks for the advice, you pathetic piece of E.E. Cummings, but I think I'm gonna pass.' 'You Robert Frost-ing Nikki Giovanni! Get a life, nerd. You're a virgin.' 'Hey bro, you need to go outside and get some fresh air into you. Or a girlfriend.' I need to get a girlfriend into me? I think that shows a fundamental lack of comprehension about how babies are made.

  John Green

  Mom, Baby, Girlfriend

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• Bountiful is your life, full and complete. Or so you think, until someone comes along and makes you realize what you have been missing all this time. Like a mirror that reflects what is absent rather than present, he shows you the void in your soul—the void you have resisted seeing. That person can be a lover, a friend, or a spiritual master. Sometimes it can be a child to look after. What matters is to find the soul that will complete yours. All the prophets have given the same advice: Find the one who will be your mirror!".

  Elif Safak

  Spiritual, Children, Thinking

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• Here is my advice as we begin the century that will lead to 2081. First, guard the freedom of ideas at all costs. Be alert that dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify. And don't regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of people you disagree with to free, public, unhampered expression.

  Gerard K. O'Neill

  Respect, Freedom, Rights

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• Quietly Sophronia added, "And the soot on my dress, sir?" "I didn't see anything." Professor Braithwope smiled down at her, showing a small hint of fang. Sophronia grinned back. "I'm glad we understand each other, sir." The vampire looked out into the night. "This is the right finishing school for you, isn't it, whot?" "Yes sir, I think it might very well be." "A piece of advice, Miss Temminnick?" "Sir?" "It is a great skill to have friends in low places. They, too, have things to teach you." "Now, sir, I thought you didn't see any soot.

  Gail Carriger

  School, Night, Thinking

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• Let me give you some advice: make friends with a millionaire when he's a friendless sixth-grader.

  Robin Sloan

  Giving, Millionaire, Let Me

  Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore”, p.75, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• If you ever see me getting beaten by the police, put down the video camera and come help me.

  Bobcat Goldthwait

  Funny, Police, Comedian

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• Advice for a human. 81. You can't find happiness looking for the meaning of life. Meaning is only the third most important thing. It comes after loving and being. 82. If you think something is ugly, look harder. Ugliness is just a failure of seeing.

  Matt Haig

  Thinking, Important, Meaning Of Life

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• Advice for a human 86. To like something is to insult it. Love it or hate it. Be passionate. As civilisation advances, so does indifference. It is a disease. Immunize yourself with art. And love.

  Matt Haig

  Art, Hate, And Love

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• There's no such thing as advice to the lovelorn. If they took advice, they wouldn't be lovelorn.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Ifs

  Interview with David Savage, www.indexmagazine.com. 1996.

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