advice Quotes

I'm telling you, if you want to have good advice, never pay any attention to the camera guys because they will tell you over and over something is wrong and let's reshoot it, let's do this and let's do that. Hey, just do it.

Jewish women are very exciting, as exciting sexually as any other group. Even so, my advice to a young man marrying a Jewish girl would be to have three and a half years of foreplay. Of course, most girls in every group are reserved about getting down to it. They don't usually do it right away. But once they do it, women are bananas. They don't wanna do it, you can't make them do it, there's no way they'll do it - but once they do it, they don't let you alone.

Advice is like rain that soaks everything without being sought.

An old medical friend gave me some excellent practical advice. He said: \'You will have for some time to go much oftener down steps than up steps. Never mind! win the good opinions of washerwomen and such like, and in time you will hear of their recommendations of you to the wealthier families by whom they are employed.\' I did so, and found it succeed as predicted.

Here's my advice to you: don't marry until you can tell yourself that you've done all you could, and until you've stopped loving the women you've chosen, until you see her clearly, otherwise you'll be cruelly and irremediably mistaken. Marry when you're old and good for nothing...Otherwise all that's good and lofty in you will be lost.

As a general rule...people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.

I'm in no position to hand down any advice,\' he said, \'but there's a rule I follow when I don't know what to do.\' \'A rule?\' \'If you have to choose between something that has form and something that doesn't, go for the one without form. That's my rule. Whenever I run into a wall I follow that rule, and it always works out. Even if it's hard going at the time.

What does it mean to be yourself?Ђќ he asked. 'If it means to do what you think you ought to do, then you're doing that already. If it means to act like you're exempt from society's influence, that's the worst advice in the world; you would probably stop bathing and wearing clothes. The advice to 'be yourself' is obviously nonsense. But our brains accept this tripe as wisdom because it is more comfortable to believe we have a strategy for life than to believe we have no idea how to behave.

I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing over whether it is true or not.

I asked people who have already finished books for advice, which is akin to asking a mother with a four-year-old what childbirth is like.

Create some psychological space between you and your project by imagining you're doing it for someone else or contemplating what advice you'd give to another person in your predicament.

I've been polite and I've always shown up. Somebody asked me if I had any advice for young people entering the business. I said: \'Yeah, show up.

Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble.

I know that I personally have felt quite happy because I've done what I wanted to do. I pursued my interests and have thus managed to combine my business with lots of fun. I guess my only advice is to do what you enjoy, and try to do your best with it.

Let every student enter the school with this advice. No matter how good the school is, his education is in his own hands. All education must be self education.

The Muslim leaders swallow the advice of the Western powers and bodies like the IMF and World Bank, even when it is bad for their countries and they know this.

The advice we give others is the advice that we ourselves need.

Bertie,\' he said, \'I want your advice.\' \'Carry on.\' \'At least, not your advice, because that wouldn't be much good to anybody. I mean, you're a pretty consummate old [prat], aren't you? Not that I want to hurt your feelings, of course.\' \'No, no, I see that.\' \'What I wish you to do is put the whole thing to that fellow Jeeves of yours, and see what he suggests.

But in general, take my advice, when you meet anything that is going to be Human and isn't yet, or used to be Human once and isn't now, or ought to be Human and isn't, you keep your eyes on it and feel for your hatchet.

He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.

Many years ago a very wise man named Bernard Baruch took me aside and put his arm around my shoulder. \'Harpo my boy,\' he said, \'I'm going to give you three pieces of advice, three things you should always remember.\' My heart jumped and I glowed with expectation. I was going to hear the magic password to a rich, full life from the master himself. \'Yes sir?\' I said. And he told me the three things. I regret that I've forgotten what they were.

My advice is that going to the Olympics and winning a gold medal are great goals, but the real goal should be to be the best that you can be.

I trust that whoever leads the Conservative Party actually pays regard to my advice on how we should conduct ourselves and I personally will obviously support whoever eventually wins.

Hazard not your wealth on a poor man's advice.

Advice, First Law of: The correct advice to give is the advice that is desired.

Abrams's Advice: When eating an elephant, take one bite at a time.

I met a young woman the other day, and she said, what advice would you have for a writer, and I said it would be to work every day... Your job is to write. The rest of it will take care of itself. But, generally, it seems ... you know how that is, you meet people and they have a talent for self-promotion. Those are the pushy people. And you know their writing's not going to be any good, because that's not their talent.

One day Boudin said to me, 'Learn to draw well and appreciate the sea, the light, the blue sky.' I took his advice.

I am of use to the younger artists through the advice and criticism which I give them.

Recently a young mother asked for advice. What, she wanted to know, was she to do with a 7-year-old who was obstreperous, outspoken, and inconveniently willful? \'Keep her,\' I replied.... The suffragettes refused to be polite in demanding what they wanted or grateful for getting what they deserved. Works for me.