Advice Quotes - Page 14

Never eat anything at one sitting that you can't lift.

There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business.

One bit of advice: it is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree - make sure you understand the fundamental principles, ie the trunk and big branches, before you get into the leaves/details or there is nothing for them to hang on to.

My best advice for someone considering adopting a pet is to take the time to really consider your lifestyle, home environment and personal preferences.

When you talk to the half-wise, twaddle; when you talk to the ignorant, brag; when you talk to the sagacious, look very humble and ask their opinion.

Think of me as a fellow patient in the same hospital who, having been admitted a little earlier could give some advice.

I'm sure you have some cosmic rationale, but here you are with your faith and your Peter Pan advice.

Know how to use evasion. That is how smart people get out of difficulties.

Study the world's skin before you set out to look for its heart.

My best life advice:Take the high road.No matter how much stress, or strain, or consternation you are facing, take the high road.You will never regret it.

You make more money selling advice than following it. It's one of the things we count on in the magazine business -- along with the short memory of our readers.

Best advice I've ever received: Finish.

We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.

We advise others better than ourselves.

. . . for when women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do. Then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it. If it fails, they generously give her the whole.

I 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.

There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.

I mean, I try to say the right things and give the right advice. But still, I'm only a person.

I have never yet figured out what to do about good advice that you get, and that you know right away would help you, but that you cannot follow.

The supply of interpretations, like that of advice, greatly exceeds the need for them.

You have only one life, and no one else will live it for you. Shouldn't you take the time right now to figure out what that life is all about?

My advice to any young person at the beginning of their career is to try to look for the mere outlines of big things with their fresh, untrained and unprejudiced mind.

The best advice I've been given is kind of the "dance with the one who brought you" thing. You got here on what you do so don't change that.

I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor. "Never worry about your heart till it stops beating.

Never take advice from anyone with no investment in the outcome.