Advice Quotes - Page 26

It occurs to me,Jim,that you spend too much time trying to be interesting. Why don't you invest more time being interested?" Collin's advice from John Gardner that he took to heart.

When asked for advice by beginners. Know your ending, I say, or the river of your story may finally sink into the desert sands and never reach the sea.

I have been told that a young would-be composer wrote to Mozart asking advice about how to compose a symphony. Mozart responded that a symphony was a complex and demanding form and it would be better to start with something simpler. The young man protested, 'But, Herr Mozart, you wrote symphonies when you were younger than I am now.' Mozart replied, 'I never asked how.

Advice is priceless: when it becomes interference it is preposterous.

One piece of advice that always stuck in my mind is that people should be respected and trusted as people, not because of their position or title.

Surround yourself with people that you know will take care of you. It's not so much a mistake advice - it's just advice advice.

Write what you know will always be excellent advice for those who ought not to write at all. Write what you think, what you imagine, what you suspect!

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

Advice is one thing that is freely given away, but watch that you only take what is worth having.

Seek advice from those who are competent through their own experience and success to give it.

My advice: Just keep movin' straight ahead. Every now and then you find yourself in a different place.

I’ve learned the most from Randy Harrison. Because of his fantastic imaginary world filled with bizarre friends. He is constantly giving us good advice.

Most of my life, I wanted to be a therapist, but then I just decided that I didn't want to be in charge of giving people advice. I want to know everything there is to know about psychology. But a therapist? No.

Don't be shy. Go for it and ask your crush out.

It is often wise to reveal that which cannot be concealed for long.

It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.

We must not forget that … monetary policy all over the world has followed the advice of the stabilizers. It is high time that their influence, which has already done harm enough, should be overthrown.

We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.

I am very handy with my advice and then when anybody appears to be following it, I get frantic.

Marriage is something that needs to be worked on every day. I don't know if I'm the one to give marital advice since I've only been married for a little over a year, but marriage is certainly easier if you are open, trusting and loving.

If you are in doubt whether to write a letter or not, don't. And the advice applies to many doubts in life besides that of letter writing.

On the one hand, I have wanted to supply documentation on myself by including material relevant to my emotions and ideas in my youth; and, on the other, not to let myself down by publishing inferior material. My poetry comes under the latter head. My only advice to the reader is to skip any verse that he sees coming.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Just remember who you are... The world will try to change you into someone else. Don't let them. That's the best advice anyone can give you.

The best advice I've gotten in terms of that was someone who said, "People will surprise you if you let them."