Advice Quotes - Page 32

• If a man knows where to get good advice, it is as though he could supply it himself.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Knows, Ifs

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.94, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• Most men will go farther to give advice than to follow their own opinion.

  Norm MacDonald

  Men, Giving, Opinion

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• The worst advice? 'Don't listen to the critics.' I think that you really ought to listen to the critics, because sometimes they're telling you something is broken that you can fix.

  Stephen King

  Thinking, Broken, Marketing

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• If you are seeking for security, certainty, your eyes will become closed. And you will be less and less surprised and you will lose the capacity to wonder. Once you lose the capacity to wonder, you have lost religion. Religion is the opening of your wondering heart. Religion is a receptivity for the mysterious that surrounds us. Don't seek security; don't seek advice on how to live your life.

  Rajneesh

  Heart, Eye, Live Your Life

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• Never run into debt, not if you can find anything else to run into.

  Josh Billings

  Running, Debt, Ifs

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• If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add: 'All the time.'

  Randy Pausch

  Honesty, Giving, Would Be

  Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The last lecture”, Hyperion Books

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• Nothing goes out of fashion sooner than a long dress with a very low neck.

  Coco Chanel

  Fashion, Long, Dresses

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• At least for the people who send me mail about a new language that they're designing, the general advice is: do it to learn about how to write a compiler

  Dennis Ritchie

  Writing, People, Design

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• We were young, but we had good advice and good ideas and lots of enthusiasm.

  Bill Gates

  Ideas, Entrepreneur, Enthusiasm

  "A candid conversation with the sultan of software about outsmarting his rivals". Interview with David Rensin, tech-insider.org. July 1994.

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• If I'd only followed CNBC's advice, I'd have a million dollars today. Provided I'd started with a hundred million dollars.

  Jon Stewart

  Dollars, Investing, Today

  "Jon Stewart Eviscerates CNBC, Santelli On Daily Show" by Jason Linkins, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 05, 2009.

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• The best advice on writing was given to me by my first editor, Michael Korda, of Simon and Schuster, while writing my first book. 'Finish your first draft and then we'll talk,' he said. It took me a long time to realize how good the advice was. Even if you write it wrong, write and finish your first draft. Only then, when you have a flawed whole, do you know what you have to fix.

  Dominick Dunne

  Book, Writing, Editors

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• Hair is so linked to how we feel and everyone goes for something radical after a break-up, but my advice if you've suffered heartbreak or you’ve broken up with someone is not to touch your hair. It's the first thing women do but you're not in a fit state to make long-term decisions. You'll have to spend four years growing it out. Buy a lipstick instead. Go and kiss loads of other people, but don't f***ing touch your hair.

  Alexa Chung

  Kissing, Hair, Years

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• Expect nothing. Today: that is your life.

  Kurt Tucholsky

  Today, Expect Nothing

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• The advice would be the same for any kind of fiction. Keep writing, and keep sending things out, not to friends and relatives, but to people who have the power to buy. A lot of additional, useful tips could be added, but this is fundamental.

  Fred Saberhagen

  Writing, People, Would Be

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• The only advice that I'm in the mood to give - and that I give regularly - to young people is this: fight for what you believe in. You will lose, just like I have lost, all the battles. But only one you may win. The one that you engage every morning, in front of the mirror.

  Indro Montanelli

  Morning, Believe, Fighting

  "Soltanto un giornalista" by Indro Montanelli, Rizzoli, Milano, 2002.

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• Get the advice of everybody whose advice is worth having - they are very few - and then do what you think best yourself.

  Charles Stewart Parnell

  Thinking

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• If you want to be a writer, I have two pieces of advice. One is to be a reader. I think that's one of the most important parts of learning to write. The other piece of advice is 'Just do it!' Don't think about it, don't agonize, sit down and write.

  S. E. Hinton

  Writing, Thinking, Two

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Listen to the advice of others, but follow only what you understand and can unite in your own feeling. Be firm, be meek, but follow your own convictions. It is better to be nothing than an echo of other painters.

  Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

  Echoes, Feelings, Conviction

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• And with the right mentor, don't be afraid to expose your vulnerabilities. Admit you don't know what you don't know. When you acknowledge your weaknesses and ask for advice, you'll be surprised how much others will help.

  Howard Schultz

  Mentor, Weakness, Helping

  Howard Schultz, Dori Jones Yang (1997). “Pour your heart into it: how Starbucks built a company one cup at a time”

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• It applies in any business. Shoemakers should be run by shoe guys, and software firms by software guys, and supermarkets by supermarket guys. With the advice and support of their bean counters, absolutely, but with the final word going to those who live and breathe the customer experience. Passion and drive for excellence will win over the computer-like, dispassionate, analysis-driven philosophy every time.

  Bob Lutz

  Running, Philosophy, Passion

  Bob Lutz (2011). “Car Guys vs. Bean Counters: The Battle for the Soul of American Business”, p.8, Penguin

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• For someone so conflicted, who am I to give advice to anybody? It’s such a funny, grandiose idea

  Florence Welch

  Ideas, Giving, Grandiose

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• Advice to beginning SF writers? Write a lot, finish what you write, and when it's done, keep sending it out for quite awhile.

  Rudy Rucker

  Writing, Rude, Done

  Interview with Giulio Prisco, giulioprisco.blogspot.ru. August 27, 2002.

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• My advice would be to write -never to stop writing, to keep it up all the time, to be painstaking about it, to write until you begin to write.

  Gabriel Fielding

  Writing, Would Be

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• A student will send me an urgent appeal to hear her, saying she is poor and wants my advice as to whether it is worth while to continue her studies. I invariably refuse such requests.

  Alma Gluck

  Want, Students, Study

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• If the student could give up her work on my advice, she had better give it up without it. One does not study for a goal. The goal is a mere accident.

  Alma Gluck

  Giving Up, Goal, Doe

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