Advice Quotes - Page 29

• What's the basis when rappers don't know the basics?
  Still not takin' advice from those I wouldn't trade places with.

  Skeme

  Rap, Hip Hop, Basics

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• You could either ignore this advice, or take it from me:
  Be too nice, and people take you for a dummy.

  Daniel Dumile

  Nice, Rap, People

  Song: Deep Fried Frenz, 2004

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• It is well to lie fallow for a while.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Lying, Vacancy, Leisure

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1849). “Poetical works”, p.71

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• Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.

  Doris Lessing

  Inspirational, Creativity, Thinking

  "Grande dame of letters who’s not going quietly". Interview with Amanda Craig, www.thetimes.co.uk. November 23, 2003.

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• I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Mistake, Bats, Human Bondage

  W. Somerset Maugham (2016). “Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)”, p.352, Diversion Books

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• So there was a constant flow and a thin line there between reality and television and yes, much of what I was experiencing in my real life was also what was going on in the television show to the extent that I had to take writers advice and from the counselors around.

  Alan Thicke

  Real, Television, Lines

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• And I agree that the Democratic legislators in Massachusetts might have given some advice to Republicans in Congress about how to cooperate, but the fact of the matter is we used the same advisers and they say it's the same plan.

  Barack Obama

  Presidential, Massachusetts, Might

  First presidential Obama-Romney debate at the University of Denver, Colorado, www.npr.org. October 3, 2012.

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• My personal advice is to go to school first and get a liberal arts education, and then if you want to pursue acting, go to graduate school.

  Jillian Bach

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• A Lincolnesque leader is confident enough to be humble - to not feel the need to bluster or dominate, but to be sufficiently sure of one's own judgment and self-worth to really listen and not be threatened by contrary advice.

  Evan Thomas

  Leadership, Humble, Self Worth

  Evan Thomas, Staff of Newsweek (2009). “A Long Time Coming: The Inspiring, Combative 2008 Campaign and the Historic Election of Barack Obama”, p.186, PublicAffairs

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• Keep up appearances whatever you do.

  Charles Dickens

  Political, Politics, Appearance

  Martin Chuzzlewit ch. 11 (1844)

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• Pension reforms, like investment advice and automatic enrollment, will strengthen the ability of Americans to save and invest for retirement.

  Steve Bartlett

  Retirement, Reform, Enrollment

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• Again, men tell us that our preaching should be positive and not negative, that we can preach the truth without attacking error. But if we follow that advice we shall have to close our Bible and desert its teachings. The New Testament is a polemic book almost from beginning to end ... It is when men have felt compelled to take a stand against error that they have risen to the really great heights in the celebration of the truth

  John Gresham Machen

  Book, Teaching, Men

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• When you need advice- do you seek someone who has proven success or do you get advice from people who have never achieved what you desire?

  Robert G. Allen

  Inspirational, Success, People

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• Stubbornness destroys good advice.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Wise, Wisdom, Insightful

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• People ask me what advice I have for a married couple struggling in their relationship. I always answer: pray and forgive. And to young people from violent homes, I say: pray and forgive. And again, even to the single mother with no family support: pray and forgive.

  Mother Teresa

  Mother, Prayer, Couple

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• The worst piece of advice I've gotten in my whole career is from somebody who said, Remember, it's all about likeability.

  Clive Owen

  Careers, Pieces, Remember

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• Don't hesitate to seek external help or advice where need be. Sometimes, it takes an external, emotionally unattached individual to detect your business flaws and render unbiased advice.

  Richard Branson

  Survival, Needs, Unbiased

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• Nobody can give you advice after you've been collecting for a while. If you don't enjoy making your own decisions, you're never going to be much of a collector anyway.

  Charles Saatchi

  Giving, Decision, Investing

  Charles Saatchi (2009). “My Name is Charles Saatchi and I Am an Artoholic”, Phaidon Press

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• Living in a house where domestic violence goes on every day never feels like home. You don't have to suffer in silence. I'm giving my full support to this website as it will give proper and practical advice about what to do if you feel afraid. Remember, you're not alone.

  Beverley Knight

  Home, Remember You, Remembers You

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• A Warrior also knows that the fool who gives advice about someone else's garden is not tending his own plants.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Warrior, Garden

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• When we want to do something while unconsciously certain to fail, we seek advice so we can blame someone else for the failure.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Blame Someone, Want, Failing

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.1709, Random House

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• I am reminded, now, of Leonardo's advice to painters: You should fix your eyes, he says, on certain walls stained with damp. You will see in these the likenesses of divine landscapes, adorned with mountains, ruins, rocks, extensive plains; and you will see there battles and strange figures engaged in violent actions. For in such walls the same thing happens as in the sound of church bells, in whose reverberations you may find every word imaginable.

  Ciaran Carson

  Wall, Eye, Church Bells

  Ciaran Carson (2001). “Shamrock Tea”, Granta Books

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• My characters surprise me constantly. My characters are like my friends - I can give them advice, but they don't have to take it. If your characters are real, then they surprise you, just like real people

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Real, Writing, Character

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• Always ask for advice but never take it.

  Gustav Holst

  Asks

  Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gustav Holst (1959). “Heirs and rebels: letters written to each other and occasional writings on music”

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• Listen carefully, my child, to your master's precepts, and incline the ear of your heart. Receive willingly and carry out effectively your loving father's advice, that by the labor of obedience you may return to Him from whom you had departed by the sloth of disobedience.

  Benedict of Nursia

  Children, Father, Heart

  "Rule of St. Benedict". Book by Benedict of Nursia, c. AD 480–550.

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