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There are as many forms of advice as there are colors of the rainbow. Remember that good advice can come from bad people and bad advice from good people. The important thing about advice is that it is simply that. Advice.
Al FrankenWhen the economy was going up, [Milton Friedman and I] both gave the same advice, and when the economy was going down, we gave the same advice. But in between he didn't change his advice at all.
Paul SamuelsonI was never given this advice, people aren't given this advice, focus on growing and maintaining relationships for your network, and that's key. And most of the advice tends to be, you know, discover your strengths, build up your resume, get a title, all of that stuff pales in comparison.
Reid HoffmanWhoever gives advice to the sick gains a sense of superiority over them, no matter whether his advice is accepted or rejected. That is why sick people who are sensitive and proud hate their advisors even more than their illnesses.
Friedrich NietzscheMy brother gave me some good advice. He said, "What do you want to do? Do that because there are no rules when it comes to love. There are absolutely no rules. Do what you want to do." I think that was the most liberating piece of advice, because love really is unpredictable. There's trap doors, all kinds of scary stuff, caves and bears... You never know what's going to happen so you just have to do what you feel is right in the end.
Taylor SwiftThe best advice I can give is to ignore advice. Life is too short to be distracted by the opinions of others.
Russell EdsonSeek other people's advice, but don't take orders. And don't take 100% of anyone's advice. Make sure every decision you make is a product of your own conclusion. Be a student, not a disciple.
Jim RohnA good man giving bad advice is more dangerous than a nasty man giving bad advice.
Conor Cruise O'BrienObama is clearly a narcissist in the non-scientific use of the word. He is so self-involved, you see it from his rise.Thereโs not anyone of independent stature around him. There was in the first term, because he needed them to prop him up. But now that he entered a second term, heโs the master of the universe, so thereโs nobody around him. He is impervious to outside advice, real advice that he takes.
Charles KrauthammerNever give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.
Francois de La RochefoucauldAdvice ... is a habit-forming drug. You give a dear friend a bit of advice today, and next week you find yourself advising two or three friends, and the week after, a dozen, and the week following, crowds!
Carolyn WellsThe only advice ... that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions.
Virginia WoolfWhen you have an attorney giving you advice, it would be nice to know what their financial relationship is to the advice.
Lowell BergmanI've always been the go-to girl for all of my girlfriends in terms of relationship advice or clothing advice.
Molly RingwaldWhen you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.
Al FrankenI got so much advice; I just started tuning it out. If one more person told me what I had to do when the baby comes, I was going to shoot 'em.
Kate HudsonPlay the open variation of the Ruy is my advice to all ordinary club players, and I recently even wrote a book about it, seen from Black's point of view. Why does everybody try to copy the grandmasters' strange positional maneuvers in the 5. ... B-K2 variation, instead of fighting for the in intiative?
Bent LarsenMy advice is really this: what we hear the philosophers saying and what we find in their writings should be applied in our pursuit of the happy life. We should hunt out the helpful pieces of teaching and the spirited and noble-minded sayings which are capable of immediate practical application-not far far-fetched or archaic expressions or extravagant metaphors and figures of speech-and learn them so well that words become works.
Seneca the YoungerMy advice to you, if you should ever be in a hold up, is to line up with the cowards and save your bravery for an occasion when it may be of some benefit to you.
O. HenryThe 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 FriedThe advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.
Samuel JohnsonForcing your employees to follow required steps only prevents customer dissatisfaction. If your goal is truly to satisfy, to create advocates, then the step-by-step approach alone cannot get you there. Instead, you must select employees who have the talent to listen and to teach, and then you must focus them toward simple emotional outcomes like partnership and advice....Identify a person's strenths. Define outcomes that play to those strengths. Find a way to count, rate or rank those outcomes. And then let the person run.
Marcus BuckinghamMy advice: Don't quit. When I got to New York City, I lived so far below the poverty line, because I didn't give in and get a job at 7-Eleven. I think you can thrive in misery.
Rob ZombieWe need to tell people not to be helpful. Trying to be helpful and giving advise are really ways to control others. ... Advice, recommendations, and obvious actions are exactly what increase the likelihood that tomorrow will be just like yesterday.
Peter BlockThe Constitution says the President shall nominate, not maybe he could, maybe he can't, he shall nominate. Implicit in the Constitution is that the Senate will act on its constitutional responsibility and give its advice and consent. No one is required to vote for the nominee.
Joe BidenIt's a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.
Aldous HuxleyNobody is defeated until he starts blaming somebody else. My advice to you is don't fix the blame. Fix the problem.
John WoodenI would give female filmmakers the same advice Iโd give any filmmaker; believe in your vision, believe in your team, believe in yourself.
Leanne PooleyAs much as my parents are part of Hollywood, I have no recollection of them giving me advice about it.
Rashida JonesBooks are totally useless unless you take their advice. If you just keep reading them, thinking "that's so insightful! that changes everything," but never actually doing anything different, then pretty quickly the feeling will wear off and you'll start searching for another book to fill the void.
Aaron SwartzFresh from a costume fitting, where I had been posing in front of the mirror assuming what I thought was a strong position - arms folded, butch-looking...you know - I met with the woman in charge of Holloway police station. She gave me the most invaluable advice: never let them see you cry, and never cross your arms. When I asked why, she said 'because it is a defensive action and therefore weak.
Helen MirrenThe quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead.
Douglas AdamsNo engineer can go upon a new work and not find something peculiar, that will demand his careful reflection, and the deliberate consideration of any advice that he may receive; and nothing so fully reveals his incapacity as a pretentious assumption of knowledge, claiming to understand everything.
John B. JervisI am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
StendhalI've always believed that you should stick as closely to the science as possible. And my biggest advice to reporters has been, if you're doing a climate story, talk to climate scientists. The best climate stories are done by the people who talk to climate scientists.
Joseph J. RommMy advice to aspiring writers of fantasy trilogies or series is that each book needs two main plots. There's the 'big story', the over-arching grand plot of the entire series, and there is the complete-in-itself, one-book plot.
Juliet MarillierI allowed myself to be taken in by the intellectuals. I believed too much in the Polish intellectuals and followed their advice.
Lech WalesaWhen brides ask me, "What's the best advice you can give me on my wedding day?" I always have the same answer: "Be yourself." Someone's marrying you, they love you for who you are, and they don't want you to be someone else.
Vera WangI don't do anything that would ever come across as advice or suggestion, but it's just part of a debate. Like, "I would like to try this," or "Let me do another one with more stillness, let me emphasize that." Rather than "I think you should emphasize this, I think" - you know, I don't impose choices.
Ben KingsleyNeophyte, n. There are millions upon millions of people who have been through this before-- why is it that no one can give my good advice?
David LevithanPhysically abusive and verbally abuse marriages are very, very difficult situations. I fully understand people in those kinds of marriages who think there is no hope. I also know that the advice that is given by most people is simply... get out of there as fast as you can.
Gary Chapman