Advice Quotes

Don’t waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.

I don't want advice.' 'Nobody does. It's a giver's present.

Quidquid praecipies, esto brevis.(Whatever advice you give, be brief.)

You are not listening to a word I am saying . . . and I am making the most delightful plans for your future.

In Buddhism we would say that you are lazy... Despising yourself, thinking you are no good, saying 'I can't do this.' This is the mind of weakness. You must work to overcome it .

... good advice was sometimes easier to give than receive.

No counsel is more sincere than that given on ships which are in danger.

Fine gold is recognized when it is tested.

Lord Henry smiled. "He gives you good advice, I suppose. People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves.

Send me all the advice you like. I'll use as much as I can.

Advice is what we ask for when we already knew the answer but wish we didn't.

You need the devotion to your work that a priest of God has for his.

Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.

Up in that room I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about. I was trying to do this all the time I was writing, and it was good and severe discipline.

Maugham then offers the greatest advice anyone could give to a young author: "At the end of an interrogation sentence, place a question mark. You'd be surprised how effective it can be.

The closest to perfection people ever come is when they write their resumes .

But if you needed to HAVE AN IDEA, boredom could be to a roadblocked novel what chemotherapy was to a cancer patient.

If you truly love someone, have the faith to 'let them go.' Encourage them to be the fullest measure of themselves, and you will be overwhelmed by the love that your spouse returns to you.

I don't want to see him alone. He says things that annoy me. He gives me good advice.

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration.

Don't let yourself slip and get any perfect characters... keep them people, people, people, and don't let them get to be symbols.

But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure to go wrong.

Trying to write something of permanent value is a full-time job.

I do a lot of rewriting. It’s very painful.

You need to take out the stuff that’s just sitting there and doing nothing. No slackers allowed! All meat, no filler!

... when editors were flattered, they would sometimes give in on some of their mad ideas.

Once in a rare lifetime have you ever been in a roomful of people who only helped you when you looked at them, listened to them. this was one of those magic times. I knew it.

Only God gets it right the first time and only a slob says, "Oh well, let it go, that's what copyeditors are for.

What you don't write is often more important than what you do

Use what you stand for and what you oppose as a foundation to write great content that resonates with readers and creates a ripple effect.

Suit the action to the word, theWord to the action.

Sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an imagined person-and write to that one.

Be Fearful When Others Are Greedy and Greedy When Others Are Fearful

Reprove your friend in secret and praise him in public.

Let your peace be a victory!

You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out.

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

Simplicity simplicity simplicity. I say let your affairs be as two or three and not a hundred or a thousand instead of a million count half a dozen and keep your accounts on your thumbnail.

Never miss a good chance to shut up.

To be a writer, you must write. To be a published writer you must finish what you write and then get what you've written in front of the outside world.

Remember: we’re drowning in information, but we’re starving for wisdom.

Have more than thou showest Speak less than thou knowest.

Fewer things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.

Put all thine eggs in one basket and - watch that basket.

Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.

Saepa stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint scripturas. (Turn the stylus [to erase] often if you would write something worthy of being reread.)

If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. Be water, my friend.