Advice Quotes - Page 35

• Ah, gentle dames! it gars me greet To think how monie counsels sweet, How monie lengthened sage advices, The husband frae the wife despises.

  Robert Burns

  Sweet, Husband, Thinking

  1790 'Tam o' Shanter. A Tale'.

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• It is expedient to have acquaintance with those who have looked into the world, who know men, understand business, and can give you good intelligence and good advice when they are wanted.

  George Horne

  Business, Men, Giving

  George Horne, William Jones (1831). “The Works of the Right Reverend George Horne ...: To which are Prefixed Memoirs of His Life, Studies, and Writings”, p.33

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• No one's ever really given me any style advice. I wear what I want, and it doesn't matter what other people think.

  David Beckham

  Inspirational, Thinking, People

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• Advice is unfriendly to learning, especially when it is sought. Most of the time when people seek advice, they just want to be heard. Advice at best stops the conversation, definitely inhibits learning, and at worst claims dominance.

  Peter Block

  Learning, Knowledge, People

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• Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

  Horace

  Love, Passion

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• Attractive Etonians who go straight onto the Stock Exchange missing University on their fathers advice: the raw material of the great bores.

  Geoffrey Madan

  Father, Missing, Raw Materials

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• We can see now that we Americans were caught unprepared, because we were ordinary human beings, following the best advice we had at the time. No one would have guessed in 1941 that we would be attacked in such an unsportsmanlike manner as we were. No one could have visualized Pearl Harbor, either out there or in Washington. But if we had known then what we know now, we would have expected an attack in 1941.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Time, Ordinary, Would Be

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1950). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1944-1945, Volume 13”, p.214, Best Books on

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• The game ain't always fair and that's the thing though. You can play your heart out, everyone don't get a ring though.

  Drake

  Life, Heart, Play

  Song: Made

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• Cancer is such a frightening and emotional roller coaster. It's a ride we all want to get off! My best advice is, find the 'glue' that will hold you together - whether it's religion, family, friends, music, yoga, a hobby or a cancer support group. Even our pets can be amazing healers. Be patient and don't give up. Trust me when I say you will come out changed and stronger on the other end of this.

  Brenda Jones

  Giving Up, Cancer, Yoga

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• It's nice that I've grown up with the same friends since I was 12, I have a very close knit set of them... I grew up with a lot of people who a lot of other people regarded as heroes, and no one ever came to me for advice, no one ever came to me for protection, and so I don't ever really think I've been looked at as a hero.

  Robert Pattinson

  Family, Friends, Nice

  "PopSugarUK Meets Remember Me Cast Part One: Robert Pattinson on Fighting, Father Figures and Friends". PopSugarUK interview, www.popsugar.co.uk. March 29, 2010.

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• Use familiar words-words that your readers will understand, and not words they will have to look up. No advice is more elementary, and no advice is more difficult to accept. When we feel an impulse to use a marvelously exotic word, let us lie down until the impulse goes away.

  James J. Kilpatrick

  Lying, Writing, Looks

  James J. Kilpatrick (2010). “The Writer's Art”, p.39, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• I have made three rules of writing for myself that are absolutes: Never take advice. Never show or discuss work in progress. Never answer a critic.

  Raymond Chandler

  Writing, Progress, Three

  Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Gardiner, Kathrine Sorley Walker (1977). “Raymond Chandler Speaking”, p.93, Univ of California Press

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• The best advice on writing I've ever received is to take it seriously, because to do it well is all-consuming.

  David Guterson

  Writing, Wells, Consuming

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• I have never heard a dancer asking for advice about how to stay focused on her footwork, or a painter complaining about the dull day-to-day task of painting. What task worth doing isn't worth daily effort? Do you think Michelangelo was having fun the whole time he was on his back painting the Sistine Chapel's ceiling?

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Fun, Writing, Thinking

  Teenreads Interview, www.teenreads.com. September 2006.

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• If I were to offer any advice to young writers, it would be this: be discriminating and be discerning about the work you set for yourself. That done, be the untutored traveler, the eager reader, the enthusiastic listener. Put what you learn together carefully, and then write thoughtfully, with respect both for the reader and your sources.

  Barry Lopez

  Writing, Together, Young Writers

  FaceBook post by Barry Lopez from Aug 04, 2011

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• It's my experience that very few writers, young or old, are really seeking advice when they give out their work to be read. They want support; they want someone to say, "Good job."

  John Irving

  Jobs, Writing, Giving

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• Never play cards with a man named Doc, and never eat at a place called Mom's.

  John O'Hara

  Mom, Men, Play

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• I listen. I like to give advice. Mostly, Ill just try to listen to my friends, and theyll say the same thing over and over again.

  Amy Sedaris

  Giving, Trying, Ill

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• Don't worry about the future. Or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind, the kind that blindside you at 4 p.m. on some idle Tuesday.

  Mary Schmich

  Real, Worry, Tuesday

  Mary Schmich (2012). “The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary”, p.31, Agate Digital

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• I share the same advice that my mom gave me - stay hydrated and sleep well. And that being a beautiful person on the inside is what really matters.

  Jessica Alba

  Beautiful, Confidence, Mom

  "Salma Hayek Featured On Glam Belleza Latina, Jessica Alba Discusses Beauty And Latina Icons". www.huffingtonpost.com. June 18, 2013.

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• My advice is: learn from the best or teach yourself. And do not bother at all if you do not have an exaggerated sense of curiosity.

  David Hurn

  Photography, Curiosity, Photographer

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• As great a picture can be made as one's mental capacity-no greater. Art cannot be taught; it must be self-inspiration, though the imagination may be fired and the ambition and work directed by the advice and example of others.

  Edward Weston

  Art, Inspiration, Ambition

  Edward Weston, Peter C. Bunnell (1983). “Edward Weston on photography”, Gibbs Smith Publishers

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• It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.

  Jane Austen

  Success, Teaching, Events

  'Persuasion' (1818) ch. 23

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• To give and receive advice - the former with freedom, and yet without bitterness, the latter with patience and without irritation - is peculiarly appropriate to geniune friendship.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Friendship, Irritation, Giving

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pliny (2010). “Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero with His Treatises on Friendship and Old Age; Letters of Pliny the Younger”, p.39, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young.

  Mary Schmich

  Youth, Like You, Young

  "Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young" by Mary Schmich in Chicago Tribune, June 1, 1997.

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