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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.

It is a weak thing to tell half your story, and then ask your friend's advice-a still weaker thing to take it.

Asking for advice is an act of humility.... The act alone says, \'I need you.\' The decision maker and the adviser are pushed into a closer relationship.

I first met Hanson over in Japan and they gave me some great advice about the fans and they seem real down to earth. They're great.

A financial plan is a way to take all of the money advice you come across and figure out how it applies to your specific financial situation.

The best advice that I can offer is that being proactive and a careful planner is key. Think about the major things that could shake up your financial life, and Ill bet there are some great ways to protect yourself.

Complaisance, though in itself it be scarce reckoned in the number of moral virtues, is that which gives a lustre to every talent a man can be possessed of. It was Plato's advice to an unpolished writer that he should sacrifice to the graces. In the same manner I would advise every man of learning, who would not appear in the world a mere scholar or philosopher, to make himself master of the social virtue which I have here mentioned.

The best advice I can give you about falling is to never land.

Nothing is so beneficial to a young author as the advice of a man whose judgment stands constitutionally at the freezing-point.

Any one can give advice, such as it is, but only a wise man knows how to profit by it.

When I was 16 years old, my brother Frank said, 'You'd better become a catcher, because you're too big and fat to do anything else.' Well, I took his advice. It was a quick way to get to the big leagues, and I've never regretted it.

MC Lyte definitely embraces me. Jada Pinkett Smith embraces me. Those are two people that I can call and get advice. Those are two people that will call me to see what I'm doing.

When you have an attorney giving you advice, it would be nice to know what their financial relationship is to the advice.

My best advice to you Ђ' shut up.

Broke people giving financial advice is like a shop teacher with missing fingers.

We must be very careful when we give advice to younger people: sometimes they follow it!

But I try not to become preoccupied with that because with whatever direction I follow, with whatever advice I've followed or not followed, It's landed me in New York, in a very beautiful hotel, talking to people about something that I love. So I ain't that far off.

I'm gonna give them the advice that I always took myself, that it's better to get to know somebody before you jump into the sack with them. Because then if you jump into the sack and fall in love, and you liked them already, you're home free.

His advice to me is basically to just love what you do and don't let the fear of failure stop you.

People do not want advice - they want corroboration.

Good Advice 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 new. Now you'll be feeling blue. But that's what friends are for!

Advice is sought to confirm a position already taken.

When I began my physical studies [in Munich in 1874] and sought advice from my venerable teacher Philipp von Jolly...he portrayed to me physics as a highly developed, almost fully matured science...Possibly in one or another nook there would perhaps be a dust particle or a small bubble to be examined and classified, but the system as a whole stood there fairly secured, and theoretical physics approached visibly that degree of perfection which, for example, geometry has had already for centuries.

I had neither expert aid nor advice. I studied no courses in writing; until a year or so ago, I never read a book by anybody advising writers how to write.

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If I wanted to become a tramp, I would seek information and advice from the most successful tramp I could find. If I wanted to become a failure, I would seek advice from people who have never succeeded. If I wanted to succeed in all things, I would look around me for those who are succeeding, and do as they have done.

I forget whether advice be among the lost things which Ariosto says are to be found in the moon: that and time ought to have been there.

Superfluous advice is not retained by the full mind.

I do not like giving advice: it is incurring an unnecessary responsibility.

A Protestant, if he wants aid or advice on any matter, can only go to his solicitor.