advice Quotes

Get the advice of everybody whose advice is worth having - they are very few - and then do what you think best yourself.

The best advice that was given to me was that I had to be 10 times smarter, braver and more polite to be equal. So I did.

My advice is: if you've got to be miserable to write great music, then drive a truck.

It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from 'Dear Abby' instead of going to Mom and Dad.

When I was a prosecutor in San Francisco I would get advice on trying cases from public defenders and defense attorneys.

The only advice that I'm in the mood to give - and that I give regularly - to young people is this: fight for what you believe in. You will lose, just like I have lost, all the battles. But only one you may win. The one that you engage every morning, in front of the mirror.

The advice would be the same for any kind of fiction. Keep writing, and keep sending things out, not to friends and relatives, but to people who have the power to buy. A lot of additional, useful tips could be added, but this is fundamental.

Hair is so linked to how we feel and everyone goes for something radical after a break-up, but my advice if you've suffered heartbreak or you've broken up with someone is not to touch your hair. It's the first thing women do but you're not in a fit state to make long-term decisions. You'll have to spend four years growing it out. Buy a lipstick instead. Go and kiss loads of other people, but don't f***ing touch your hair.

As long as you live, it is never too late to make amends. Take my advice, child. Don't waste your precious life with regrets and sorrow. Find a way to make right what was wrong, and then move on.

Never give advice in a crowd.

The best advice on writing was given to me by my first editor, Michael Korda, of Simon and Schuster, while writing my first book. 'Finish your first draft and then we'll talk,' he said. It took me a long time to realize how good the advice was. Even if you write it wrong, write and finish your first draft. Only then, when you have a flawed whole, do you know what you have to fix.

The worst advice in golf is, 'Keep your head down.'

They keep telling me don't save you. If I ignore all that advice and something isn't right then who will I complain to?

I enjoyed every bit of my swimming career. I think that's the most important advice - to enjoy what you do

This is what I tell young women who ask me for career advice. People are going to try to trick you. To make you feel that you are in competition with one another. You're up for a promotion. If they go for a woman, it'll be between you and Barbara. Don't be fooled. You're not in competition with other women. You're in competition with everyone.

Unruly ambition is deaf, not only to the advice of friends, but to the counsels and monitions of reason itself.

And now, advice for beginning mystics. Be sober, be intelligent, be educated, rely on the tangible reality as long as you can. Remember that the act of writing is a tiny part of a bigger something. Defend the value of the spiritual experience and if somebody tells you it's an old fashioned notion, laugh loudly and serenely.

The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.

I am dismayed to realize that much of the advice I used to parcel out to aspiring writers has passed its sell-by date.

I don't turn to greeting cards for wisdom and advice, but they are a fine reflection of the general drift of the culture.

I don't take investment advice from wealth managers. I have grown several businesses from scratch and amassed many millions from my publishing empire - why would I take advice from someone who has never experienced that?

Before I started chemotherapy treatments, I wrote down the best advice from doctors, family, friends, books, and survivors and created an 'Owner's Manual' to help me take care of myself. It would remind me that cancer is doable.

My Advice is: You always have to keep persevering.

If I needed advice from my caddie, he'd be hitting the shots and I'd be carrying the bag.

My advice to you... is to start drinking heavily.

If I'd only followed CNBC's advice, I'd have a million dollars today. Provided I'd started with a hundred million dollars.

Trying to keep up with health advice can feel like surfing the Net for weather forecasts: what you find is always changing, often contradictory and rarely encouraging.

It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.

Writers and artists never pay attention to advice given by their elders, quite rightly. The only worthwhile advice is the most general: 'Keep trying, don't give up, don't be discouraged, don't pay attention to detractors.' Everyone knows this.

We were young, but we had good advice and good ideas and lots of enthusiasm.