Advice Quotes

I would say that when you have a big dream or you're trying to solve a big problem, there will always be people who tell you that you can't. Here's my advice: don't listen.

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.

Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else. This is not advice, it is merely custom.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Women don't like advice. They don't want you to fix their problems, they just want you to listen.

The best advice I ever received was to not rush time. Things will present themselves when the time is right.

Don't listen to other people's advice unless it is rooted in irrepressible enthusiasm (e.g., "Be afraid but do it anyway"), or about the importance of being a good colleague.

An expert is somebody who is more than 50 miles from home, has no responsibility for implementing the advice he gives, and shows slides.

I'm not sure I can take your advice. You are dealing with English Gentlemen. We are dealing with monsters.

Leadership starts with understanding responsibility, not ability. Leadership is a Stewardship, not a show.

Taking risks in older age is more courageous because you have more to lose. When you have nothing, you have nothing to lose.

Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you

Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.

Giving advice isn't as risky as people say. Few ever take it anyway.

No good sensible working bee listens to the advice of a bedbug on the subject of business.

Play every day. I don't know. I'm not sure what kind of advice I would give. You just have to do it every second that you can.

When I had all the answers, the questions changed.

My number one advice to high school girls is birth control. You want to keep all your options open for as long as possible? Birth control.

We older women who know we aren't heroines can offer our younger sisters, at the very least, an honest report of what we have learned and how we have grown.

Try any goddam thing you like, no matter how boringly normal or outrageous. If it works, fine. If it doesn't, toss it. Toss it even if you love it.

When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.

Girls, if a boy says something that isn't funny, you don't have to laugh.

Sometimes not much is just enough.

I need voices of reason and of hysteria and of empathy. I need to have an Alanis moment. I need advice from Elizabeth Bennett. I need Tim Tams and comfort food.

Remember this. We are always looking for problems to solve, and to solve problems we need to be ready for clues. And you will never be in the receiving frame of mind if you – never – shut - up!

Men constantly miscalculate what they can do in a day, and grossly underestimate what can be achieved in a year.

Stay cool, and wait for opportunity.

Proper lighting is everything, Julianna.

Love will hurt. If it doesn't hurt you are not doing it right. To truly love someone you must open yourself up to the pain that would be losing them.

No man ever listened himself out of a job.

All the well-meaning advice in the world won't amount to a hill of beans if we're not even addressing the real problem.

Control yourself, it is not worth it. You will regret your rudeness afterwards, your sensitive nature will be troubled

Really, he thought, if you couldn't trust a poet to offer sensible advice, who could you trust?

Plans are easy to make, dreams are easy to dream. But putting your back into it? A little bit of hard graft and discipline? That is just too scary and far too much effort for the masses

Don't argue about the difficulties. The difficulties will argue for themselves.

You either have to write or you shouldn't be writing. That's all.

Writers often torture themselves trying to get the words right. Sometimes you must lower your expectations and just finish it.

The fiction writer has to engage in a continual examination of conscience. He has to be aware of the freak in himself.

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

Principles are the simplicity on the far side of complexity.

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

Writing is the act of discovery.

Don't start an argument with somebody who has a microphone when you don't. They'll make you look like chopped liver.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

You cannot borrow half of who you are from someone else, yet people try to do it all of the time, they just call it a relationship!

For me and most of the other writers I know, writing is not rapturous. In fact, the only way I can get anything written at all is to write really, really shitty first drafts.

If things are really overwhelming and you need to talk, you can give me a call at 347-273-2044.

I don't think anybody should read anything except for fun because you won't learn anything unless you enjoy it.

The pride of men will not often suffer reason to have scope until it can be no longer of service.

Any given generation gives the next generation advice that the given generation should have been given by the previous generation but now it's too late.