Advice Quotations | Page 2

A pick-up artist gave me a good piece of advice: the three most important things in a relationship are honesty, trust and respect, and if you don't have those, you don't have love.

Unfortunately, I was not wise enough to listen to her advice, and hastily married. In a few weeks, I had occasion to repent of the step I had taken, as the report proved true - a report which I thought justified, and indeed required, our separation.

Never take advice from anyone in a tie. They'll bankrupt you. Don't ask a general for advice on war, and don't ask a broker for advice on money.

If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.

I do not welcome advice from actors; they are here to act.

Along the way, I've had different advice from different music producers. I've been told to tone it down, that the quiet parts of my voice are appealing and there's harshness to the loud part of my voice.

Individual psychotherapy - that is, engaging a distressed fellow human in a disciplined conversation and human relationship - requires that the therapist have the proper temperament and philosophy of life for such work. By that I mean that the therapist must be patient, modest, and a perceptive listener, rather than a talker and advice-giver.

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.

To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.

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

Stop being a critic and be a light; don't be a judge, be a model. I think we are far too critical. I think the best way to correct behavior is to accentuate and affirm positive behavior and to ignore negative behavior. Generally speaking, there is a time to correct, of course; but my biggest advice would be, 'Affirm your child.'

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

As far as advice, that will be in my next book, my next collection. I certainly never like to instruct anyone, but just say as I feel. That's the same as advice, isn't it?

The reason we love our parents is because they loved us first. Every single company should take this advice.

Marriage is too interesting an experiment to be tried only once.

My advice has always been to study the craft of acting if you want to be an actor. There are many great schools that teach acting. NYU being one of them.

My career was quite unusual, so my main advice to someone interested in a career similar to my own is to remain open to change and new opportunities. I like to tell students that the jobs I took after my Ph.D. were not in existence only a few years before.

I'd never be where I am if more successful writers hadn't taken an interest in me and done me a good turn - be it chiming in with constructive criticism or giving me sound advice about my career plan.

I think the best advice I give is to try not to write. Try not to overwrite, try not to make it sound too good. Just use your own voice. Use your own style of putting it down.

My advice to someone to follow in my footsteps is to have patience. I've been doing this for twelve years.

This character in the film, these things that he says which sound like advice and wise things, they are very common for Orientals. It's all the tradition.

If I can give you any advice, it's this: every hour that you spend sat on the couch doing nothing, put it to good use, because when you have kids, an hour is like a lifetime.

These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.

One gets the impression that Elvis Presley does what his business advisors think will be most profitable. My advice to them: Put Elvis Presley in the studio with a bunch of good, contemporary rockers, lock the studio up, and tell him he can't come out until he's done made an album that rocks from beginning to end.

There is a time to provide advice and offer an opinion, and there is a time not to. Don't be too quick to offer unsolicited advice. It certainly will not endear you to people.

The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.

That's my advice for indie filmmakers: Marry a supermodel.

Vilify! Vilify! Some of it will always stick.

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.

It gets really tricky giving advice. The older I get, the less advice I give.

If you aren't rich you should always look useful.

MC Lyte definitely embraces me. Jada Pinkett Smith embraces me. Those are two people that I can call and get advice. Those are two people that will call me to see what I'm doing.

My mother gave lots of good advice and had a lot to say. As you get older, you realize everything she said was true.

I have always said to myself, 'I never want to say I'm leaving a job because I want to spend more time with my family.' I feel sorry for people when they say that. But my advice to them is that you shouldn't have taken the job in the first place.

Each year I host a leadership summit in my district, and my biggest advice to young people is get experience. Get your foot in the door.

However, I think, first of all, that what's happening in Sierra Leone is going to have the great influence on those governments who will be asked to provide forces to the Congo. Second, of course, the Security Council has no professional military advice organized in any way.

Many original occupiers believe the political system has become so corrupt that even participating in it, engaging with it, corrupts the movement. I understand what they are saying. But often, change does come more quickly from the inside rather than the outside. My advice: try both. But don't try violence.

I am always keen to discover something new, but my advice is always to exfoliate. Get rid of those dead, dry cells; then the new skin is ready for moisturising, and you find your inner dewy, youthful glow. Its in there somewhere.

I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.

Meyer and I have a bit in common because we're both left-handed. I think it's great that he seeks out that advice because he's not too cool or too uncomfortable to ask for it.

My advice is keep your lips away from the spinning things.

Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.

The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is don't do it unless you're willing to give your whole life to it. Red wine and garlic also helps.

If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard.

I understand how hard it is to talk to people about MS. You don't want pity or random advice.

I'm not accustomed to giving advice to those who haven't asked for it.

My advice is, if you are going to go on 'X Factor,' you have to know who you are as an artist.

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

I'm afraid the parenting advice to come out of developmental psychology is very boring: pay attention to your kids and love them.

My mother is not a woman of ordinary culture. She knows literature and speaks Spanish better than I do. She even corrected my poems and gave me advice when I was studying rhetoric.

I've received many good pieces of advice throughout my life.

So, my advice to young scientists is, think critically about your work; probably don't blab unnecessarily.

I never help my kids and I never encourage them and I never give them any advice.

The best advice that was given to me was that I had to be 10 times smarter, braver and more polite to be equal. So I did.

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

I guess the best advice I ever got or anyone could get for doing a talk show, though it has not been easy very often, was from Jack Paar, who said, 'Kid, don't make it an interview. Interviews have clipboards, and you're like David Frost. Make it a conversation.'

My advice to new artists is to embrace a broader concept of timelessness than vintage or retro.

I am a big proponent of adopting dogs through shelters and rescue operations. Having dogs in the office might not be right for everyone, but it has certainly worked well for me. My advice to other offices, on the Hill and off, would be to try it out.

You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.

My best advice to actors is if you love acting, do it every chance you get. Success does not mean success. All that matters is whether or not you're doing your best to entertain. The way this business works is all about luck and timing.

If you cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.

The influence of a science adviser is only as good as ears open to that science advice.

Meet some people who care about poetry the way you do. You'll have that readership. Keep going until you know you're doing work that's worthy. And then see what happens. That's my advice.

My advice to young actors is probably to do some theatre; definitely do that. I keep running into these actors who have never been on stage, and it's invaluable for an actor. What you will learn about yourself is huge.

The best fashion advice I'd say would be just to do what makes you comfortable and what makes you feel cute, and that's how you're gonna look your best cause when you feel your best, everybody else can feel it, too.

It's the time of year when the literati give advice on what we should be reading on our summer holidays. These terrifying lists often leave me appalled at my own ignorance, but also suspicious about the pretension of their advocates.

My daughter recently reminded me not to get so busy making a living, I forget to make a life and I'm going to take that advice.

When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.

Be open and honest, but perceptive to your boss's situation. That's my advice to graduates worried about working with a new boss.

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do.

I never know how to give advice to a writer because there's so much you could say, and it's hard to translate your own experience. But of course, I always try. The main thing that I usually end up saying is to read a lot. To read a great deal and to learn from that.

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

The trick is to find the style that is right for you. When it comes to trying new clothes, my advice is not to take it too seriously - it's all about having fun.

The advice I was given was just to make sure you look out of the window occasionally. It's something no astronaut ever gets tired of doing.

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.

Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.

President Obama's decision to bypass the constitutional advice and consent of the Senate is not an isolated incident.

The most helpful piece of advice that I could give to anybody is to select a charity, or create a charity, that you really feel passionate about and if you do, don't give up.

I lost touch with my son in terms of advice early on. Maybe it had to do with being gone so much, doing location films when he was at an age where he needed support and guidance.

I don't think anybody can be told how to act. I think you can give advice. But you have to find your own way through it.

What the poor, the weak, and the inarticulate desperately require is power, organization, and a sense of identity and purpose, not rarefied advice of political scientists.

If I have any advice to give to the Syrian president it is to cooperate for the sake of the investigation or for the sake of uncovering the truth.

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

The president and I sat down in the Oval Office, and he expressed very clearly that what he wants from me is my best professional military advice.

The best advice is to take it easy, respect speed limits and do not try to make up time lost in the tailbacks on the open road.

Being with someone who is smart and gives good advice adds tremendously wonderful elements to your life.

I have one piece of advice for those of you who want to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award: Start early!

Most social problems could be helped or prevented if people had more money and practical advice.

It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.

If you love it enough, anything will talk with you.

My advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they've read it and learnt to understand it, then they must throw it away and never look at it again!

I was a contact hitter my whole career but I learned how to handle the ball inside. And Ted Williams played a big part in that. He gave me the advice on how to handle inside pitches.

I would never offer advice without the person asking for it. I, in general, don't believe in giving advice, actually, as a human being I don't.

Sure, I have advice for people starting to write. Don't. I don't need the competition.

If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role.

Share everything. Don't take things that aren't yours. Put things back where you found them.

Don't give your advice before you are called upon.

I did have reconstructive plastic surgery and a tummy tuck. And from hip to hip, there's a very big scar. It looks better than it did... So I say, if you don't like that skin, have it removed. This is my advice: if you're gonna do it - just go for it.