Advice Quotes
Perception number one, how you want people to think about you when you arrive and perception number two, how you want them to talk about you once you have left.
In short, the difference between you and your doctor is that he has a well-designed reputation and you do not.
Young man, your problem and the reason so many like you fail, is simply because you allow yourself to give up far too early.
Fascinatingly resilient the tenacity of a child. Not yet conditioned by society to give up when instructed to do so.
The malpractice for advice-giving is like five times as much as a craniotomy.
And so it must be with the energy you muster for your own work. Get out there and convert the unconverted. Save them all from the charlatans and the nearly-men.
It has nothing to do with the time being right or wrong. Storms just happen.
You can’t plough a field by turning it over in your mind. Either you get out there and plough it or it doesn’t get done.
You see continuous movement is the important thing here. Those who remain in one position and then lie to themselves about their progress are the ones in real trouble.
Currently, you are approaching each opportunity with a single possible outcome and when that doesn't happen you fool yourself that there was nothing more that you could have done.
The future is a fabulous place to bury your success.
Don't allow your imagination to colour events as lesser men would, and see movement in motionless things.
Until you take the first step forward, failure remains reassuringly impossible.
It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.
Perhaps you should put your head down.” I knew this was the thing to do, although I’ve never fainted and I don’t intend to.
I will ask questions that are so wide and open they will feel the need to speak for a week. Then from the information that they give to me, I will mould solutions designed specifically for them.
Only something extremely dire and disabling will ever stop a real writer from writing. Retirement is never an option.
No real lady would let a dress that might have been worn by a stranger touch her skin.
Never take advice about never taking advice. That is an old vice of men - to dish it out without being able to take it - the blind leading the blind into more blindness.
Be willing to die for your beliefs, or computer printouts of your beliefs.
If you wish to sell to anyone you must earn the right to do so.
Never ask while you are doing it if what you are doing is fun. Don't introduce even your most reliably witty acquaintance as someone who will set the table on a roar.
Find out what people want to do, then tell them to do it. They'll think you're a genius.
If you want the law to leave you alone, keep your hair trimmed and your boots shined.
But without a need, even the finest piece of beef is merely a piece of dead bull is it not?
Why do so many salespeople talk to customers about the product and not the result?
My father always told me: 'Give somebody a hand and he'll take an arm.
When I am grown up I shall carry a notebook—a fat book with many pages, methodically lettered. I shall enter my phrases.
Walk with care in dark places, and do not put your faith in anyone who promises you the forgiveness of the Lord or a certain place in Paradise.
Talk is free but the wise man chooses when to spend his words.
At the end of the day, we all live in this world together and to practice bringing peace onto social media is a huge step into bringing peace into our world.
But if you don't understand that story is character and not just idea, you will not be able to breathe life into even the most intriguing flash of inspiration.
Shakespeare had it right all along: Love will kill you in the end.
What we find to love or to hate comes to us as a substitute for something else.
You may forsake a person, a family, some location of the heart, but scars and memories cannot be discarded like used clothing.
I'm told there's no going back. So I'm choosing forward.
I know that if you don't look for an alternative, Sophos, you certainly won't find one.
Rule of life. If you bother to ask someone’s advice, then bother to listen to it.
