Advice Quotes - Page 34

• People will say you cannot get a job in a down economy. People will say you cannot get a job that you love that will pay you well. People will say you can’t do good and do well. They’re wrong, that’s idiotic advice. People will tell you that you cannot change the world. They’re wrong too.

  Soledad O'Brien

  People, Funny Graduation, Idiotic

  Soledad O’Brien Graduation Speech, gradspeeches.com. May 26, 2012.

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• Clearly, we need to have the very best advice and counsel on what actions can be taken to help lower the cost of gasoline.

  Jeff Bingaman

  Taken, Needs, Cost

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• And that's another piece of advice I'll give junior writers; when you get to the point where they take you to lunch, let the editor suggest where to go.

  Jerry Pournelle

  Editors, Lunch, Giving

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• Think of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I would as soon submit the subject of the equality of a goose to a fox.

  Anna Howard Shaw

  Thinking, Foxes, Politician

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• Everyone, including the Athenians [...] are right to accept advice from anyone, since it is incumbent on everyone to share in that sort of excellence, or else there can be no city at all.

  Protagoras

  Cities, Excellence, Accepting

  "Protagoras". Book by Plato, Oxford University Press, p. 19, 2002.

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• Sorry; I have no space left for advice. Just do it.

  Donald E. Westlake

  Sorry, Space, Left

  The Book Reporter interview, www.bookreporter.com. April 21, 2000.

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• I tell people, Don't take my advice. What do I know?

  Nick Lachey

  People, Knows

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• As far as advice to potential teenage idols, there is no formula.

  Bobby Sherman

  Teenage, Idols, Corny

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• It was not possible to broadcast any of that because of an agreement between Jackson and the family [of the child]. Our legal advice was that we could not broadcast it.

  Martin Bashir

  Agreement, Literature

  "Jackson revelations were surprise, says Bashir". www.theguardian.com. February 13, 2003.

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• I got the best advice I've ever been given; 'Punch him in the face as much as you can.' Keep it simple, so that's what I did.

  Court McGee

  Art, Simple, Faces

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• My Department has already recognised this and has been working specifically on the technical support issue since January and will offer advice to schools during the Autumn term.

  Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley

  School, Autumn, Issues

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• If your best friend's feeling tearful,
  Try not to be too cheerful.
  Just let her fill your ear full
  Of sad tales by the score.
  And when she is through,
  She'll feel as good as.

  Beatrice Schenk de Regniers

  Friendship, Blue, Feelings

  "Week in the Life of Best Friends".

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• The best way to persuade is with your ears.

  Dean Rusk

  Life, Ears, Way

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• We should never use the truth to wound.

  Saint Augustine

  Life, Use, Should

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• You don't have to gaze into a crystal ball when you can read an open book.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Life, Book, Balls

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• A man is not obliged honestly to answer a question which should not properly be put.

  Samuel Johnson

  Life, Men, Answers

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• You may wonder why a question of manners has got me so exercised. It's because I believe in a simple rule. If you see a person you know behave unreasonably to someone else, you can bet your last pound that before long he'll be behaving like that to you.

  Daniel Finkelstein

  Life, Believe, Simple

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• There are days when I'll wake up and think, oh, I've really been something. You know, it won't be the same without me. And then there are days when I wake up and I say, 'Don't kid yourself. Your contribution was minimal. You changed very little. Everything you hated prospered'.

  Norman Mailer

  Life, Kids, Thinking

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• To be human : to strive in the face of the certainty of failure.

  Spider Robinson

  Life, Faces, Strive

  Spider Robinson (2013). “The Crazy Years”, p.148, BenBella Books, Inc.

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• My new catchphrase is: 'Pull yourself together.' I've done the inner child, I've had analysis, I've decided that unless you're mentally ill and need support, it's up to you.

  Sheila Hancock

  Life, Children, Support

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• The secret of good health and happiness is to have rather small illnesses throughout your life which you can rely on to stop you doing anything you don't want to do.

  John Mortimer

  Life, Secret, Want

  "In the Pina Colada zone" by Kathryn Flett, www.theguardian.com. August 7, 2004.

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• In every person there is the capacity to do something really special.

  Colm O'Rourke

  Life, Special, Capacity

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• Seek your happiness in the happiness of all.

  Zoroaster

  Life, Happiness, Inner Peace

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• Don't judge those who try and fail. Judge only those who fail to try.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Life, Judging, Trying

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• If I'd been born in my grandfather's time, I'd have made my grandfather's mistakes. Theres no doubt of it. I just don't want to make my grandfather's mistakes today.

  Frank Herbert

  Life, Mistake, Doubt

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