advice Quotes

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.

My advice to those who which to learn the art of scientific prophesy is not to rely on abstract reason, but to decipher the secret language of Nature from Nature's documents: the facts of experience.

Being listened to should be sufficiently gratifying in itself, whether or not the advice is followed.

You cannot beat the clock. My advice is to grab your moments of grace and enjoy them while they last.

Unsolicited advice is always self-serving.

\'Don't be stupid!\' is excellent advice.

When we give children advice or instant solutions, we deprive them of the experience that comes from wrestling with their own problems.

Advice to a new writer: There are no rules in this profession. Do what is good for you. Read books and watch films that stimulate your writing. In your writing, go where the pain is; go where the pleasure is; go where the excitement is. Believe in your own original approach, voice, characters, story. Ignore critics. Have nerve. Be stubborn.

Good advice is never as helpful as an interest-free loan.

So my advice to startups in this particular category is if you're going to put your product in beta - put your business model in beta with it. Far too often we are too product focused and not business-model focused. That's one thing I definitely would have done differently with JotSpot.

My advice is don't keep asking yourself if you can do something. Just get out there and do it. You can really surprise yourself.

I bought it, I read it, and I heeded its advice. I remain unabducted.

My 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.

It is said that dispensing advice is easy. What is difficult is getting anyone to listen to it.

The advice nearest to my heart and deepest in my convictions is that the union of the states be cherished and perpetuated. Let the open enemy to it be regarded as a Pandora with her box opened, and the disguised one as the serpent creeping with his deadly wiles into paradise.

It has been well observed that few are better qualified to give others advice than those who have taken the least of it themselves.

That's one of the privileges of old age - you can give plenty of advice 'cause most folks think that's all you got left anyway.

Why, when the economist gives advice to his society, is he so often cooly ignored? He never ceases to preach free trade, and protectionism is growing in the United States. He deplores the perverse effects of minimum wage laws, and the legal minimum is regularly raised each 3 or 5 years. He brands usury laws as a medieval superstition, but no state hurries to repeal its law.

Ask for what you want.Ask for help,ask for input,ask for advice and ideas- but be afraid to ask.

Print neatly. That's the kind of advice that the IRS considers a \'dynamite\' tax tip. If you ask them a real tax question, such as how you can cheat, they're useless.

To give and receive advice - the former with freedom, and yet without bitterness, the latter with patience and without irritation - is peculiarly appropriate to geniune friendship.

It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.

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

Sure, I could give advice; I could, say, travel the world, listen to music. But all I can really say is do something you want to do and do it well. And if you want to be a choreographer, then you have to make dances.

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

Advice ... 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!

how could advice be successful? If it turns out right, the adviser is ignored and the advisee takes all the credit. If it proves mistaken, the adviser receives all the blame.

Insistent advice may develop into interference, and interference, someone has said, is the hind hoof of the devil.

Vanity is so frequently the apparent motive of advice, that we, for the most part, summon our powers to oppose it without any very accurate inquiry whether it is right.

Advice, as it always gives a temporary appearance of superiority, can never be very grateful, even when it is most necessary or most judicious; but, for the same reason, every one is eager to instruct his neighbors.