Bad Advice Quotes - Page 2

• 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, Advice, Important

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

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• But I don't think people take bad advice. They've got intuition too, you know. In fact I'd be surprised if they take any advice at all.

  Anne Tyler

  Thinking, People, Advice

  Anne Tyler (1991). “Anne Tyler: a new collection : three complete novels”, Outlet

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• The Russian myth that they broadcast to the world, and have their various surrogates in the West repeat, is that somehow the West took advantage of them, that we were mean to them. That writes out of history everything Strobe Talbott and Bill Clinton tried to do with Boris Yeltsin. Strobe Talbott leaned forward doing everything he could to help the Russians, and frankly, I have little patience for the notion that we gave them nothing but bad advice.

  Daniel Fried

  Writing, Mean, Advice

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Sometimes economists in official positions give bad advice; sometimes they give very, very bad advice; and sometimes they work at the OECD.

  Paul Krugman

  Giving, Advice, Sometimes

  "The Beatings Must Continue" by Paul Krugman, krugman.blogs.nytimes.com. April 30, 2013.

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• Seeking an acquisition from the start is more than just bad advice for an entrepreneur. For the entrepreneur it leads to short term tactical decisions rather than company-building decisions and in my view often reduces the probability of success.

  Vinod Khosla

  Views, Entrepreneur, Decision

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• The connoisseur of painting gives only bad advice to the painter. For that reason I have given up trying to judge myself.

  Pablo Picasso

  Giving, Judging, Advice

  Pablo Picasso (1972*). “Picasso: 90 Drawings and Works in Colour”

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• That's because Tod never brings anything but death and bad advice," I snapped. "That's not true." Tod tried to grin, "Sometimes I bring pizza.

  Rachel Vincent

  Advice, Sometimes, Pizza

  Rachel Vincent (2013). “Soul Screamers Volume Three: If I Die\Never to Sleep\Before I Wake”, p.22, Harlequin

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• There's a saying - "Write what you know." It's bad advice if you take it as an unbreakable rule, but good advice if you use it as a foundation.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Advice, Use

  Interview with Catherine Elsworth, www.goodreads.com. November 2014.

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• There is a little bit of that schoolyard attitude of, it's one thing for a guy your own size to mouth off to you, but if there's a little guy, you should just smack him around. And it's probably bad advice in the schoolyard. It's certainly not a good way to run a foreign policy because even when you are dealing with a non-peer, militarily, war is complicated.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Attitude, War

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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