Advice Quotes - Page 33

• We were young, but we had good advice and good ideas and lots of enthusiasm.

  Bill Gates

  Ideas, Entrepreneur, Enthusiasm

  "A candid conversation with the sultan of software about outsmarting his rivals". Interview with David Rensin, tech-insider.org. July 1994.

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• If I'd only followed CNBC's advice, I'd have a million dollars today. Provided I'd started with a hundred million dollars.

  Jon Stewart

  Dollars, Investing, Today

  "Jon Stewart Eviscerates CNBC, Santelli On Daily Show" by Jason Linkins, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 05, 2009.

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• And now, advice for beginning mystics. Be sober, be intelligent, be educated, rely on the tangible reality as long as you can. Remember that the act of writing is a tiny part of a bigger something. Defend the value of the spiritual experience and if somebody tells you it's an old fashioned notion, laugh loudly and serenely.

  Adam Zagajewski

  Spiritual, Attitude, Writing

  Interview with Anna Maria Hong, www.pw.org. August 13, 2004.

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• The best advice on writing was given to me by my first editor, Michael Korda, of Simon and Schuster, while writing my first book. 'Finish your first draft and then we'll talk,' he said. It took me a long time to realize how good the advice was. Even if you write it wrong, write and finish your first draft. Only then, when you have a flawed whole, do you know what you have to fix.

  Dominick Dunne

  Book, Writing, Editors

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• As long as you live, it is never too late to make amends. Take my advice, child. Don't waste your precious life with regrets and sorrow. Find a way to make right what was wrong, and then move on.

  Karen Hesse

  Regret, Children, Moving

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• Hair is so linked to how we feel and everyone goes for something radical after a break-up, but my advice if you've suffered heartbreak or you’ve broken up with someone is not to touch your hair. It's the first thing women do but you're not in a fit state to make long-term decisions. You'll have to spend four years growing it out. Buy a lipstick instead. Go and kiss loads of other people, but don't f***ing touch your hair.

  Alexa Chung

  Kissing, Hair, Years

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• Expect nothing. Today: that is your life.

  Kurt Tucholsky

  Today, Expect Nothing

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• The advice would be the same for any kind of fiction. Keep writing, and keep sending things out, not to friends and relatives, but to people who have the power to buy. A lot of additional, useful tips could be added, but this is fundamental.

  Fred Saberhagen

  Writing, People, Would Be

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• The only advice that I'm in the mood to give - and that I give regularly - to young people is this: fight for what you believe in. You will lose, just like I have lost, all the battles. But only one you may win. The one that you engage every morning, in front of the mirror.

  Indro Montanelli

  Morning, Believe, Fighting

  "Soltanto un giornalista" by Indro Montanelli, Rizzoli, Milano, 2002.

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• Get the advice of everybody whose advice is worth having - they are very few - and then do what you think best yourself.

  Charles Stewart Parnell

  Thinking

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• If you want to be a writer, I have two pieces of advice. One is to be a reader. I think that's one of the most important parts of learning to write. The other piece of advice is 'Just do it!' Don't think about it, don't agonize, sit down and write.

  S. E. Hinton

  Writing, Thinking, Two

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Listen to the advice of others, but follow only what you understand and can unite in your own feeling. Be firm, be meek, but follow your own convictions. It is better to be nothing than an echo of other painters.

  Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

  Echoes, Feelings, Conviction

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• And with the right mentor, don't be afraid to expose your vulnerabilities. Admit you don't know what you don't know. When you acknowledge your weaknesses and ask for advice, you'll be surprised how much others will help.

  Howard Schultz

  Mentor, Weakness, Helping

  Howard Schultz, Dori Jones Yang (1997). “Pour your heart into it: how Starbucks built a company one cup at a time”

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• Give assistance, not advice, in a crisis.

  Aesop

  Giving, Crisis, Assistance

  Aesop, General Press (2016). “Aesop's Fables: A collection of 284 moral stories”, p.64, GENERAL PRESS

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• It applies in any business. Shoemakers should be run by shoe guys, and software firms by software guys, and supermarkets by supermarket guys. With the advice and support of their bean counters, absolutely, but with the final word going to those who live and breathe the customer experience. Passion and drive for excellence will win over the computer-like, dispassionate, analysis-driven philosophy every time.

  Bob Lutz

  Running, Philosophy, Passion

  Bob Lutz (2011). “Car Guys vs. Bean Counters: The Battle for the Soul of American Business”, p.8, Penguin

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• For someone so conflicted, who am I to give advice to anybody? It’s such a funny, grandiose idea

  Florence Welch

  Ideas, Giving, Grandiose

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• Advice to beginning SF writers? Write a lot, finish what you write, and when it's done, keep sending it out for quite awhile.

  Rudy Rucker

  Writing, Rude, Done

  Interview with Giulio Prisco, giulioprisco.blogspot.ru. August 27, 2002.

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• It's the oldest, corniest piece of advice in the world but it still works. The strongest networks are built on friendship. Be a friend not only to the people in your network, but to the people who matter the most to the people in your network.

  Harvey Mackay

  People, Pieces, World

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• We only make a dupe of the friend whose advice we ask, for we never tell him all; and it is usually what we have left unsaid that decides our conduct.

  Diane de Poitiers

  Dupes, Unsaid, Left

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• My advice would be to write -never to stop writing, to keep it up all the time, to be painstaking about it, to write until you begin to write.

  Gabriel Fielding

  Writing, Would Be

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• In parting, I would like to give you one small piece of advice to keep in your heart. You may have heard me say this before, but it is the key point of the entire path, so it bears repeating: All that we are looking for in life — all the happiness, contentment, and peace of mind — is right here in the present moment. Our very own awareness is itself fundamentally pure and good. The only problem is that we get so caught up in the ups and downs of life that we don’t take the time to pause and notice what we already have.

  Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

  Heart, Keys, Giving

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• A student will send me an urgent appeal to hear her, saying she is poor and wants my advice as to whether it is worth while to continue her studies. I invariably refuse such requests.

  Alma Gluck

  Want, Students, Study

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• If the student could give up her work on my advice, she had better give it up without it. One does not study for a goal. The goal is a mere accident.

  Alma Gluck

  Giving Up, Goal, Doe

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• If you go to most third world countries, the older woman dispenses advice to the arguing couple while other members of the family, or even the village, sit around and listen. It is no big deal.

  Trisha Goddard

  Country, Couple, Village

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• The best advice I got throughout my career was understanding what my current managers' pains and challenges are - it's not always just about hitting the number.

  Jim McDonough

  Pain, Careers, Numbers

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