Advice Quotes - Page 31

• Still, accomplishment is unreliable. "Succeeding," whatever that might mean to you, is hard, and the need to do so constantly renews itself (success is like a mountain that keeps growing ahead of you as you hike it), and there's the very real danger that "succeeding" will take up your whole life, while the big questions go untended.

  George Saunders

  Real, Mean, Accomplishment

  George Saunders (2014). “Congratulations, by the Way: Some Thoughts on Kindness”, p.48, A&C Black

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• Since, according to me, your life is going to be a gradual process of becoming kinder and more loving: Hurry up. Speed it along. Start right now. There’s a confusion in each of us, a sickness, really: selfishness. But there’s also a cure. So be a good and proactive and even somewhat desperate patient on your own behalf - seek out the most efficacious anti-selfishness medicines, energetically, for the rest of your life.

  George Saunders

  Medicine, Confusion, Selfishness

  George Saunders’ Commencement Address at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York, 6thfloor.blogs.nytimes.com. July 31, 2013.

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• Every young artist has to do it one way, his [or her] way, and the hell with patterns. Remember who you are and where you are and what you are doing.... And never take advice, including this.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Artist, Creative, Way

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• My advice to the reader approaching a poem is to make the mind still and blank. Let the poem speak. This charged quiet mimics the blank space ringing the printed poem, the nothing out of which something takes shape.

  Camille Paglia

  Space, Mind, Shapes

  Camille Paglia (2007). “Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-three of the World's Best Poems”, p.16, Vintage

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• Had I mentioned to someone around 1795 that I planned to write, anyone with any sense would have told me to write for two hours every day, with or without inspiration. Their advice would have enabled me to benefit from the ten years of my life I totally wasted waiting for inspiration.

  Enrique Vila-Matas

  Inspiration, Writing, Years

  Enrique Vila-Matas (2007). “Bartleby & Co.”, p.31, New Directions Publishing

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• When I was younger, Jackie Joyner-Kersee was a mentor to me and gave me great advice. The best was to 'work 100 percent, but enjoy every moment along the way.' Sometimes you get so in the zone, you forget to enjoy your passions. I love running—but I also love the movies, relaxing on the beach, shopping and spending time with my friends. Enjoying my life helps me enjoy my running.

  Allyson Felix

  Running, Beach, Passion

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• The church has lost her testimony. She has no longer anything to say to the world. Her once robust shout of assurance has faded away to an apologetic whisper. She who one time went out to declare now goes out to inquire. Her dogmatic declaration has become a respectful suggestion, a word of religious advice, given with the understanding that it is after all only an opinion and not meant to sound bigoted. Pure Christianity, instead of being shaped by its culture, actually stands in sharp opposition to it.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Religious, Understanding, Church

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• Advice to Young Journal Keepers. Be lenient with yourself. Conceal your worst faults, leave out your most shameful thoughts, actions, and temptations. Give yourself all the good and interesting qualities you want and haven't got. If you should die young, what comfort would it be to your relatives to read the truth and have to say: It is not a pearl we have lost, but a swine?

  Rosamond Lehmann

  Giving, Interesting, Temptation

  Rosamond Lehmann (2012). “Invitation To The Waltz”, p.55, Hachette UK

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• When you hear that something can’t be done, ignore that advice and push forward.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Motivational, Moving On, Success

  Twitter post from Feb 17, 2017

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• The simple reason that most people fail financially is not because of the lack of a plan, it’s not because of good advice, it’s not even because of a lack of capital. It is for one reason—they attach more pain to the idea of having money, than NOT having it.

  Tony Robbins

  Pain, Simple, Ideas

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• Big ideas are so hard to recognize, so fragile, so easy to kill. don't forget that, all of you who don't have them.

  John Elliott

  Ideas, Advertising, Forget

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• When you're traveling, ask the traveler for advice / not someone whose lameness keeps him in one place.

  Rumi

  Travel, Asks, Traveler

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• I don't have a mentor in the strict definition. I take as much advice and inspiration as I can from the people I am close to.

  Natalie Massenet

  Inspiration, People, Mentor

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• Ask before offering advice or reassurance.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Offering, Reassurance

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• When it comes to giving advice, never do so unless you've first received a request in writing, signed by a lawyer.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Writing, Giving

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• What I've learned is not to take anybody's advice. If you rely solely on your fans, it sets you up for the downfall
  on the industry side and if you rely on what your label is saying, it will disconnect you from your fans.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Fans, Labels, Sides

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• The only really good piece of advice I have for my students is, 'Write something you'd never show your mother or father. And you know what they say? I could never do that!'

  Lorrie Moore

  Mother, Father, Writing

  FaceBook post by Lorrie Moore from Aug 27, 2012

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• My advice to you is not to undertake the spiritual path. It is too difficult, too long, and is too demanding. I suggest you ask for your money back, and go home. This is not a picnic. It is really going to ask everything of you. So, it is best not to begin. However, if you do begin, it is best to finish.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Spiritual, Home, Long

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• Who you spend your life with-much more so than how you choose to spend it-is the most important decision you can make. Do it right. That's the best advice I can give you.

  Eli Broad

  Giving, Decision, Important

  Eli Broad (2012). “The Art of Being Unreasonable: Lessons in Unconventional Thinking”, p.165, John Wiley & Sons

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• 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.

  Herb Kelleher

  People, Mind, Titles

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• I don’t think of work as work and play as play. It’s all living.

  Richard Branson

  Life, Money, Thinking

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• You shouldn’t blindly accept a leader’s advice. You’ve got to question leaders on occasion.

  Richard Branson

  Leadership, Accepting, Occasions

  Richard Branson (2010). “Business Stripped Bare: Adventures of a Global Entrepreneur”, Virgin

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• It is plain that, when it comes to inferior officers, Congress itself can pass a law sending these nominees to the President with him having the authority to put them on the bench without the advice and consent of the Senate.

  John Jay Hooker

  Law, President, Benches

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• The Constitution gives the president the power to appoint, upon the advice and consent of a majority of the Senate, and it plainly does not give a minority of senators any right to interfere with that process.

  John Jay Hooker

  Giving, President, Minorities

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• I feel that Im not losing the game for our team. Im trying to give us the best opportunity to win the football game. I did everything I could to lose the Jets game but we won. And the Patriots game, I didnt play well. I think that this year, I just come out and play smart football. I got some good advice the other day (from CBS Sports Dan Dierdorf): Every drive that ends in a kick is a good drive.

  Ben Roethlisberger

  Sports, Football, Smart

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