Advice Quotations

Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.

There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.

You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.

Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike

It's hard to make out the difference between insults and bad advice.

My concept of an advice giver had been a therapist or a know-it-all, and then I realized nobody listens to the know-it-alls. You turn to the people you know, the friend who has been in the thick of it or messed up - and I'm that person for sure.

Show off your own style and uniqueness to stand out. That's the advice I'd give to people getting started online now.

My success was due to good luck, hard work, and support and advice from friends and mentors. But most importantly, it depended on me to keep trying after I had failed.

In life, you need many more things besides talent. Things like good advice and common sense.

All of our affairs, since the union of crowns, have been managed by the advice of English ministers, and the principal offices of the kingdom filled with such men, as the court of England knew would be subservient to their designs.

I have advice for people - period - who are in unhealthy relationships: Follow your heart. It will get you to where you need to be. Sometimes it's hard, sometimes it's easy, the places that your heart takes you. But continue to follow it. Where the train leads you - you'll get there.

I imagine 'Daily Grace' as, like, your awkward older sister who tries to give you advice.

To offer a man unsolicited advice is to presume that he doesn't know what to do or that he can't do it on his own.

The most important advice I can offer is that writing is a craft that you can learn by practicing. If you keep writing, you will improve.

My dad said to me, 'Work hard and be patient.' It was the best advice he ever gave me. You have to put the hours in.

All the pre-made sauces in a jar, and frozen and canned vegetables, processed meats, and cheeses which are loaded with artificial ingredients and sodium can get in the way of a healthy diet. My number one advice is to eat fresh, and seasonally.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

Fans will praise you, scold you, and offer helpful advice. Fans will also defend you.

When I read commentary about suggestions for where C should go, I often think back and give thanks that it wasn't developed under the advice of a worldwide crowd.

Good advice is one of those injuries which a good man ought, if possible, to forgive, but at all events to forget at once

Who writes poetry imbibes honey from the poisoned lips of life.

The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.

The people sensible enough to give good advice are usually sensible enough to give none.

The best money advice ever given me was from my father. When I was a little girl, he told me, 'Don't spend anything unless you have to.'

If I'm in a slump, I ask myself for advice.

My advice: Take a second out of the day today and be thankful for your family.

Sometimes the best coaching advice you can get is simple acknowledgement that theres nothing else you could have done.

It is very kind of you to consider the possibility of my working in Pasadena, an idea which certainly is attractive, especially since it would hold out the prospect of your cooperation or advice.

His advice to me is basically to just love what you do and don't let the fear of failure stop you.

When you have an attorney giving you advice, it would be nice to know what their financial relationship is to the advice.

My biggest advice for girls - and this is something that I wish I could have known when I was younger - is to have thick skin. It's something that you definitely develop when you get older, but when I first started, I was so obsessed with pleasing everybody. I wanted everybody to like me and to like my songs.

Small businesses, you can give them capital, but what they often need as much is mentoring, advice and help with their business plan.

I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing over whether it is true or not.

I don't turn to greeting cards for wisdom and advice, but they are a fine reflection of the general drift of the culture.

Charge forward with hope and get the best medical advice you can. Talk to your friends, neighbors, family, and together you attack it. We can't always control what happens to us, but we can always control how we react to it.

Recently my publicist asked me for a college photo, and I realize how chubby I looked. I know this sounds totally shallow, but my advice is don't fall prey to the freshmen fifteen!

Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.

Lots of people will give you advice... and depending upon how well they know you, the advice might be valid or not so valid.

I have been trying to point out that in our lives chance may have an astonishing influence and, if I may offer advice to the young laboratory worker, it would be this-never neglect an extraordinary appearance or happening. It may be-usually is, in fact-a false alarm that leads to nothing, but may on the other hand be the clue provided by fate to lead you to some important advance.

If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.

To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.

My mentors in life are much older than me and have been through life. They can actually give me some sound advice on what I'm going through.

The most inspiring piece of advice I've gotten is simply to persevere. My mom taught me to always keep going no matter what from an early age. When it feels too difficult to push forward, I always remind myself, 'This too shall pass,' and then I redouble my efforts.

Listen to people and treat people as you find them. There's an inherent goodness in most people. Don't pre-judge people - that was me Mam's advice anyway.

Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous that takes some talent.

Never feel that a piece of criticism or advice is too much trouble to give, or that it exceeds your province.

The wisest advice I ever received regarding the kitchen came from my mother: 'Do the dishes while you're cooking.

Four years ago, I felt the importance of the Olympics and how it is different from other events. It's a completely different atmosphere. The main advice I can give my teammates is to try to enjoy the experience.

Know when to speak - for many times it brings danger, to give the best advice to kings.

There's always a miasma of misinformation emerging from the higher education sector as to which are the 'best' courses to take. My advice would always be to ignore the perceived wisdom and look for the most reliable evidence on the ground.

Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.

I've always had the greatest respect for and listened to both my father and my mother. I've always tried to follow my parents' advice because these are people who want the best for me.

I don't want to give advice to people about their religious beliefs, but I do think that it's not smart to bet against the power of science to figure out the natural world. It used to be, a thousand years ago, that if you wanted to explain why the moon moved through the sky, you needed to invoke God.

When I meet with the founders of a new company, my advice is almost always, ‘Do fewer things.’ It’s true of partnerships, marketing opportunities, anything that’s taking up your time. The vast majority of things are distractions, and very few really matter to your success.

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

Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice.

Economists have allowed themselves to walk into a trap where we say we can forecast, but no serious economist thinks we can. You don't expect dentists to be able to forecast how many teeth you'll have when you're 80. You expect them to give good advice and fix problems.

I'm not an actor who appears on the stage and gives people advice on how to live or what to do and entertains them. It is not my specialty.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Once I was in a cafe in Portland and the woman at the next table and I began chatting and in the course of our conversation she strongly recommend I visit this web site called 'The Rumpus' so I could read this advice column called 'Dear Sugar.' It was so painful not to tell her that in fact I was Sugar, but I didn't.

The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone’s advice.

If I could have anyone on speed dial it would be George Clooney. He seems like a cool guy who would give good advice.

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

The best advice I've received is to be yourself. The best artists do that.

One piece of advice that always stuck in my mind is that people should be respected and trusted as people, not because of their position or title.

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing slowly... very slowly.

He read his mind. He's a strange sort of man, isn't he? It's not just the advice and the wisdom that he has.

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.

The best piece of advice that my mother gave me is to never have a plan B. She told me to stick to plan A because if you have a plan B you will inevitably fall back on it.

Some of the best advice I got from a close friend is marriage is always looked at from the world as 50/50 as to working together to make that 100 percent.

I received the best advice for running I ever heard: 'You're not going to win, so just relax. If it feels like work, you're running too hard.

My advice to young film-makers is this: don't follow trends, start them!

My advice is: if you've got to be miserable to write great music, then drive a truck.

There's never a bad time to put earplugs in. They're the kind of thing you can reject as a bit lame, but somebody told me to do start wearing earplugs and it turned out to be great advice.

The best piece of advice someone has ever given me was 'do it scared.' And no matter if you're scared, just go ahead and do it anyway because you might as well do it scared, so it will get done and you will feel so much better if you step out of your comfort zone.

I can't remember a time where I really battled with my body, but I can remember being asked to lose weight and battling with the advice. It hurt me. Especially as my baby fat naturally melted away as I got older.

I've been trying to keep the private life private. Not being savvy or trained on how to do good interviews like a politician, I thought it was wiser to follow my mother's advice: If you have nothing good to say, don't say anything at all.

The best founders are extremely thoughtful and have an eye for quality. I don't know if there's any generic advice here that would be helpful. Startup knowledge is a moving target.

If I had to give one piece of advice to incoming college freshmen, I'd say always be true to yourself.

As far as we were concerned, we were operators, we were administrators. I don't ever recall going to Dean Acheson and asking for any counsel or advice on administration, but I had the greatest respect for him, as I have today.

The best advice I can give women at all levels is increase training. There are still areas where we have to break through that glass ceiling.

A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well.

Advice to persons about to marry - don't

My own perception of that is somewhat colored by where people ask my advice, which is still, of course, about changes to Python internals or at least standard libraries.

My advice, Be healthy, reach your own goals and don't be afraid to impersonate a SNL star.

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery.

If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.

People used to ask me for advice, and I'd say, 'Please, don't ask me!' Yes, I did economics at Oxford, but that's not the same as having a broad knowledge of personal finance

It is not unprofessional to give free legal advice, but advertising that the first visit will be free is a bit like a fox telling chickens he will not bite them until they cross the threshold of the hen house.

You know, I hate to give advice because my life has been so odd that almost nothing that's happened to me can apply.

My mum's advice is never to whine to my friends, so they never see the other side of me. I save all my problems for my mother.

Some of the best advice I've had comes from junior officers and enlisted men.

April is tax month. If you are having trouble filing your taxes, then you should hire an accountant. They'll give you the same advice that they've given hundreds of corporations - taxes are for douche bags.

The literature of menopause is the saddest, the most awful, and the most medical of all genres. You're sleepless, you're anxious, you're fat, you're depressed - and the advice is always the same: take more walks, eat some kale, and drink lots of water. It didn't help.

As for advice for aspiring authors, the best I can give is to be brave. It sounds like a simple enough thing, but it's not. Rejection is such an integral part of this journey, and it never goes away.

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.

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

Best advice that I ever got is to do whatever it takes to make myself happy, so that I'll be able to make others happy. If I'm not happy, I can't make other people happy.

I haven't looked to my peers for advice because we're all going through the same thing. How do you ask your friends for advice when they're going through the exact same thing?