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Advice Quotes - Page 37

Above all avoid taking the advice of men who have no brains and do not know what they are talking about.

Above all avoid taking the advice of men who have no brains and do not know what they are talking about.

Sherwood Anderson (1953). “Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout”

Vanity is so frequently the apparent motive of advice, that we, for the most part, summon our powers to oppose it without any very accurate inquiry whether it is right.

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1834). “Murphy's essay. The rambler. The adventurer. The idler. Rasselas. Tales of the imagination. Letters. Irene. Miscellaneous poems”, p.139

Advice is offensive, it shows us that we are known to others as well as to ourselves.

Samuel Johnson (1848). “The Wisdom of the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler”, p.97

Any given generation gives the next generation advice that the given generation should have been given by the previous generation but now it's too late.

Roy Blount, Jr. (2009). “Alphabet Juice: The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words, and Combinations Thereof; Their Roots, Bones, Innards, Piths, Pips, and Secret Parts, Tinctures, Tonics, and Essences; With Examples of Their Usage Foul and Savory”, p.27, Macmillan

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

Sir Roger L'Estrange (1738). “Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists: With Morals and Reflections”, p.239

Let me give you some advice: make friends with a millionaire when he's a friendless sixth-grader.

Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore”, p.75, Atlantic Books Ltd

Listen to the advice from the one who's already achieved your goal

FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from Aug 10, 2012

Know when to speak - for many times it brings danger, to give the best advice to kings.

Robert Herrick (1852). “Hesperides; or, Works both human and divine”

Share everything. Don't take things that aren't yours. Put things back where you found them.

Robert Fulghum, “All I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten”

I think it's important we continue to find new ways for start-up businesses to get access to funding, mentorship and business advice.

"'Our obsession with ownership is at a tipping point': As he gives £1m to UK start-ups Richard Branson reveals why he's backing the sharing economy". Interview with Eleanor Lawrie, www.dailymail.co.uk. June 30, 2016.

I have made three rules of writing for myself that are absolutes: Never take advice. Never show or discuss work in progress. Never answer a critic.

Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Gardiner, Kathrine Sorley Walker (1977). “Raymond Chandler Speaking”, p.93, Univ of California Press

Advice is very easy to give, and even easier not to follow, so I don't fool with it.

"Oh, The Places You’ll Go, Part 2" by Ian Crouch, www.newyorker.com. June 21, 2010.