Advice Quotes - Page 37

• The key is to be true to your community's norms and values. You can't just force yourself on people and try to sell them something they don't want - that's good advice for marketers generally, but particularly on community-driven sites like MySpace. You have to find ways to add value to your members' lives while being consistent with your brand's identity.

  Chris DeWolfe

  Business, Keys, People

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• It is expedient to have acquaintance with those who have looked into the world, who know men, understand business, and can give you good intelligence and good advice when they are wanted.

  George Horne

  Business, Men, Giving

  George Horne, William Jones (1831). “The Works of the Right Reverend George Horne ...: To which are Prefixed Memoirs of His Life, Studies, and Writings”, p.33

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• No one's ever really given me any style advice. I wear what I want, and it doesn't matter what other people think.

  David Beckham

  Inspirational, Thinking, People

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• Advice is unfriendly to learning, especially when it is sought. Most of the time when people seek advice, they just want to be heard. Advice at best stops the conversation, definitely inhibits learning, and at worst claims dominance.

  Peter Block

  Learning, Knowledge, People

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• Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

  Horace

  Love, Passion

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• Once a man and woman have married, the only thing they should receive from their parents is advice and counsel, and then only when they ask for it. Parents should not offer opinions or advice without being asked.

  Myles Munroe

  Relationship, Marriage, Men

  Myles Munroe (2005). “The Purpose and Power of Love & Marriage”, p.75, Destiny Image Publishers

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• We can see now that we Americans were caught unprepared, because we were ordinary human beings, following the best advice we had at the time. No one would have guessed in 1941 that we would be attacked in such an unsportsmanlike manner as we were. No one could have visualized Pearl Harbor, either out there or in Washington. But if we had known then what we know now, we would have expected an attack in 1941.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Time, Ordinary, Would Be

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1950). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1944-1945, Volume 13”, p.214, Best Books on

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• I don't know what I would do in the world without [female friends] for advice, for comfort, for simply knowing that there is someone out there who knows me as I am, and loves me despite and because of it.

  Anna Quindlen

  Mom, Knowing, World

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• With infinite life comes an infinite list of relatives. Grandparents never die, nor do great grandparents, great-aunts…and so on, back through the generations, all alive and offering advice. Sons never escape from the shadows of their fathers. Nor do daughters of their mothers. No one ever comes into his own…Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free.

  Alan Lightman

  Daughter, Mother, Courage

  "Einstein's Dreams". Book by Alan Lightman, 1992.

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• The lesson here, and my advice for other developers, is to find a way that you can quantify for people what your product is worth. We were leery to do it ourselves, but being near Vetro when they did, the auction was a good technique for that. No one wants to be first, and the auction proved to people that others were buying and gave them that boost of confidence they needed.

  Bob Horner

  People, Technique, Auctions

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• Never play cards with a man named Doc, and never eat at a place called Mom's.

  John O'Hara

  Mom, Men, Play

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• I listen. I like to give advice. Mostly, Ill just try to listen to my friends, and theyll say the same thing over and over again.

  Amy Sedaris

  Giving, Trying, Ill

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• Don't worry about the future. Or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind, the kind that blindside you at 4 p.m. on some idle Tuesday.

  Mary Schmich

  Real, Worry, Tuesday

  Mary Schmich (2012). “The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary”, p.31, Agate Digital

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• Do one thing every day that scares you... Enjoy your body. Use it every way you can. Don't be afraid of it or of what other people think of it. It's the greatest instrument you'll ever own... Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia. Dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it's worth.

  Mary Schmich

  Thinking, Past, Fishing

  "The greatest commencement speech ever" by Valerie Strauss, www.washingtonpost.com. May 17, 2014.

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• Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young.

  Mary Schmich

  Youth, Like You, Young

  "Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young" by Mary Schmich in Chicago Tribune, June 1, 1997.

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• Don’t feel guilty if you don’t know what you want to do with your life…the most interesting people I know didn’t know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives, some of the most interesting 40 year olds I know still don’t.

  Mary Schmich

  Years, People, Interesting

  Mary Schmich (2012). “The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary”, p.59, Agate Digital

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• Best advice that I ever got is to do whatever it takes to make myself happy, so that I'll be able to make others happy. If I'm not happy, I can't make other people happy.

  Flavor Flav

  Make Others Happy, People, Able

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• Advice is like cooking-you should try it before you feed it to others.

  Croft M. Pentz

  Cooking, Trying, Should

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• The trouble with good advice is that it usually interferes with our plans.

  Croft M. Pentz

  Trouble, Plans, Interfere

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• If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Serious, Persuasion, Appeals

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• In my vast experience, I've found it always wiser to go along with female advice... First, you make them happy by doing what they tell you. That's the main thing. Let them think they're in control. They love it. Then, if it turns out they were right, everything's cool. If it turns out they were wrong... then you have the pleasure of basking in the glow of superiority.

  Richard Laymon

  Thinking, Female, Firsts

  "The Stake".

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• You must grow like a tree, not like a mushroom

  Janet Erskine Stuart

  Mushrooms, Tree, Grows

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• Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Motivational, Struggle, Expensive

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• An actor knows two important things - to be honest in what he is doing and to be in touch with the audience. That's not bad advice for a politician either.

  Ronald Reagan

  Two, Important, Theatre

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• He who is surety is never sure himself. Take advice, and never be security for more than you are quite willing to lose. Remember the word of the wise man: He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it; and he that hateth suretyship is sure.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Wise, Smart, Men

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