Advice Quotes - Page 27

• It doesn't look like Michelle Obama follows her own nutritionary dietary advice. And then we hear that she's out eating ribs at 1500 calories a serving with 141 grams of fat ... No, I'm trying to say that our first lady does not project the image of women that you might see on the cover of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue or of a woman Alex Rodriguez might date every six months or what have you.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Sports, Stupid, Issues

  "Does Rush Limbaugh's Criticism Of First Lady Cross The Line?". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. February 24, 2011.

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• By the data to date, there is only one animal in the Galaxy dangerous to man -- man himself. So he must supply his own indispensable competition. He has no enemy to help him.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Life, Animal, Men

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.221, Penguin

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• Enjoy what you can, endure what you must.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Enjoy, Endure

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• Sometimes, even if there was no useful advice to give, I saw that listening still helped.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Giving, Listening, Saws

  Sonia Sotomayor (2013). “My Beloved World”, p.67, Vintage

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• My mother always told me,”hide your face- people are looking at you”. I would reply,”It does not matter; I am also looking at them.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Life, Mother, Work

  Malala Yousafzai (2013). “I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World (Young Readers Edition)”, p.116, Hachette UK

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• Steven Erikson is an extraordinary writer. I read Gardens of the Moon with great pleasure. And now that I have read it, I would be hard pressed to decide what I enjoyed more: the richly and ominously magical world of Malaz and Genabackis; the large cast of sympathetically-rendered characters; or the way the story accumulates to a climax that hits like machinegun fire. My advice to anyone who might listen to me is, Treat yourself to Gardens of the Moon. And my entirely selfish advice to Steven Erikson is, write faster.

  Stephen R. Donaldson

  Selfish, Writing, Character

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• If you can't laugh at yourself, make fun of other people.

  Bobby Slayton

  Fun, People, Laughing

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• If I were to give advice to young people, high-achieving young people for example, I’d have to say, don’t neglect your family. Politics is important, sitting at the head table is glamorous. Traveling around the world, trying to do something for world peace was wonderful. But family and friends and faith are what really matter in life. And I know that. I see it so clearly now.

  George H. W. Bush

  Faith, Peace, People

  "Patriarch of a Political Dynasty". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 2, 1995.

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• We are met today in a general conference. Sometimes, I hear, the people feel, some of them, that perhaps we are not quite as "peppy" as we ought to be. But this is not a Church convention. This is a general conference where we meet for general counsel and advice. It is a place to which we come for the results of the reflective operations of our minds.

  J. Reuben Clark

  People, Mind, Church

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• Be sure to wear a good cologne, a nice aftershave lotion, and a strong underarm deodorant. And it might be a good idea to wear some clothes, too.

  George Burns

  Strong, Nice, Ideas

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• Dress simply. If you wear a dinner jacket, don't wear anything else on it ... like lunch or dinner.

  George Burns

  Lunch, Dresses, Dinner

  George Burns, Hal Goldman (1992). “Wisdom of the 90s”, Perigee Books

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• I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.

  Adela Rogers St. Johns

  Husband, Women, Thinking

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• If it has tires or testicles, you're going to have trouble with it.

  Linda J. Furney

  Trouble, Tire, Testicles

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• If your eyes hurt after you drink coffee, you have to take the spoon out of the cup.

  Norm Crosby

  Hurt, Coffee, Eye

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• Don't get mad. Don't get even. Just get elected, then get even.

  James Carville

  Mad

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• Advice: It's more fun to give than to receive.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Fun, Giving

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• When you counsel someone, you should appear to be reminding him of something he had forgotten, not of the light he was unable to see.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Light, Forgotten, Should

  "The Art of Worldly Wisdom". Book by Baltasar Gracián. Maxim 7, 1647.

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• Advice: The suggestions you give someone else which you hope will work for your benefit.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Giving, Suggestions, Benefits

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• What you do not use yourself, do not give to others. For example, advice.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Giving, Example, Use

  "Meditations: Food For The Soul". Book by Sri Chinmoy, 1970.

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• Censure is willingly indulged, because it always implies some superiority: men please themselves with imagining that they have made a deeper search, or wider survey than others, and detected faults and follies which escape vulgar observation.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Faults, Made

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.3

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• It is not indeed certain, that the most refined caution will find a proper time for bringing a man to the knowledge of his own failing, or the most zealous benevolence reconcile him to that judgment by which they are detected; but he who endeavours only the happiness of him whom he reproves will always have either the satisfaction of obtaining or deserving kindness; if he succeeds, he benefits his friend; and if he fails, he has at least the consciousness that he suffers for only doing well.

  Samuel Johnson

  Kindness, Men, Suffering

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1857). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.74

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• Few things are so liberally bestowed, or squandered with so little effect, as good advice.

  Samuel Johnson

  Littles, Good Advice, Effects

  Samuel Johnson (1848). “The Wisdom of the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler”, p.201

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• Little would be wanting to the happiness of life, if every man could conform to the right as soon as he was shown it.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Would Be, Littles

  Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.172

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• If we consider the manner in which those who assume the office of directing the conduct of others execute their undertaking, it will not be very wonderful that their labours, however zealous or affectionate, are frequently useless. For what is the advice that is commonly given? A few general maxims, enforced with vehemence, and inculcated with importunity, but failing for want of particular reference and immediate application.

  Samuel Johnson

  Office, Vehemence, Zealous

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1834). “Murphy's essay. The rambler. The adventurer. The idler. Rasselas. Tales of the imagination. Letters. Irene. Miscellaneous poems”, p.139

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• Advice, as it always gives a temporary appearance of superiority, can never be very grateful, even when it is most necessary or most judicious. But for the same reason everyone is eager to instruct his neighbours. To be wise or to be virtuous is to buy dignity and importance at a high price; but when nothing is necessary to elevation but detection of the follies or faults of others, no man is so insensible to the voice of fame as to linger on the ground.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wise, Grateful, Men

  The Rambler, No 87, January 15, 1751.

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