Advice Quotes - Page 35

• When a psychiatrist writes a bestseller, he is then urged to write a book of advice. But I think our culture's awash in advice. The problem is we don't know whether it applies to us or whether we're an exception.

  Peter D. Kramer

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• Now I usually try not to give advice. Information, yes, advice, no. But, what has worked for me may not work for you. Well, take for instance what has worked for me. Wigs. Tight clothes. Push up bras.

  Dolly Parton

  Clothes, Funny Graduation, Giving

  "Puff Daddy Delivers Howard University Commencement Speech, But How Does It Rank?" by Emma Goddard, www.bustle.com. May 11, 2014.

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• People will say you cannot get a job in a down economy. People will say you cannot get a job that you love that will pay you well. People will say you can’t do good and do well. They’re wrong, that’s idiotic advice. People will tell you that you cannot change the world. They’re wrong too.

  Soledad O'Brien

  People, Funny Graduation, Idiotic

  Soledad O’Brien Graduation Speech, gradspeeches.com. May 26, 2012.

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• Clearly, we need to have the very best advice and counsel on what actions can be taken to help lower the cost of gasoline.

  Jeff Bingaman

  Taken, Needs, Cost

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• I guess I had it made. My mother gave me advice - she taught me that women like to be looked in the eye - and my grandmother gave me condoms.

  Usher

  Mother, Eye, Taught

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• And that's another piece of advice I'll give junior writers; when you get to the point where they take you to lunch, let the editor suggest where to go.

  Jerry Pournelle

  Editors, Lunch, Giving

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• Think of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I would as soon submit the subject of the equality of a goose to a fox.

  Anna Howard Shaw

  Thinking, Foxes, Politician

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• I used to take five or six books away and bring five or six books back. Nobody gave me direction or advice and I read much in the way that a boy might watch television.

  John McGahern

  Book, Boys, Television

  "The whole world in a community". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. January 5, 2002.

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• Everyone, including the Athenians [...] are right to accept advice from anyone, since it is incumbent on everyone to share in that sort of excellence, or else there can be no city at all.

  Protagoras

  Cities, Excellence, Accepting

  "Protagoras". Book by Plato, Oxford University Press, p. 19, 2002.

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• Sorry; I have no space left for advice. Just do it.

  Donald E. Westlake

  Sorry, Space, Left

  The Book Reporter interview, www.bookreporter.com. April 21, 2000.

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• I tell people, Don't take my advice. What do I know?

  Nick Lachey

  People, Knows

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• As far as advice to potential teenage idols, there is no formula.

  Bobby Sherman

  Teenage, Idols, Corny

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• It was not possible to broadcast any of that because of an agreement between Jackson and the family [of the child]. Our legal advice was that we could not broadcast it.

  Martin Bashir

  Agreement, Literature

  "Jackson revelations were surprise, says Bashir". www.theguardian.com. February 13, 2003.

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• I got the best advice I've ever been given; 'Punch him in the face as much as you can.' Keep it simple, so that's what I did.

  Court McGee

  Art, Simple, Faces

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• The man who does not learn to wait upon the Lord and have his thoughts molded by Him will never possess that steady purpose and calm trust, which is essential to the exercise of wise influence upon others, in times of crisis and difficulty.

  Dixon Edward Hoste

  Trust, Wise, Christian

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• My Department has already recognised this and has been working specifically on the technical support issue since January and will offer advice to schools during the Autumn term.

  Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley

  School, Autumn, Issues

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• If your best friend's feeling tearful,
  Try not to be too cheerful.
  Just let her fill your ear full
  Of sad tales by the score.
  And when she is through,
  She'll feel as good as.

  Beatrice Schenk de Regniers

  Friendship, Blue, Feelings

  "Week in the Life of Best Friends".

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• The best way to persuade is with your ears.

  Dean Rusk

  Life, Ears, Way

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• We are usually undone by our lack of understanding of ourselves.

  Julian Fellowes

  Life, Understanding, Undone

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• We should never use the truth to wound.

  Saint Augustine

  Life, Use, Should

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• You don't have to gaze into a crystal ball when you can read an open book.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Life, Book, Balls

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• A man is not obliged honestly to answer a question which should not properly be put.

  Samuel Johnson

  Life, Men, Answers

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• You may wonder why a question of manners has got me so exercised. It's because I believe in a simple rule. If you see a person you know behave unreasonably to someone else, you can bet your last pound that before long he'll be behaving like that to you.

  Daniel Finkelstein

  Life, Believe, Simple

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• A man with his heart in his profession imagines and finds resources where the worthless and lazy despair.

  Frederick The Great

  Life, Heart, Men

  Frederick the Great (2012). “Instructions for His Generals”, p.44, Courier Corporation

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• I am as fond of colorful language as anyone, but I try not to inflict it upon strangers. I suspect many people sense they should have better manners, and need only a nudge. In high school, I was addressed for the first time in my life as "Mister Ebert" by Stanley Hynes, an English teacher, and his formality transformed his classroom into a place where a certain courtliness prevailed.

  Roger Ebert

  Life, Teacher, School

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