Advice Quotes - Page 42

The best writing advice I had was [in] ‘Heinlein’s Rules for Writers’ by (American science fiction author) Robert A. Heinlein. His first rule is that you must write, and I was already doing that, but his second rule is, ‘You must finish what you write,’ and that had a big impact on me.

Unlike Churchill, I have no plans to shape history. . . . Socrates gave advice

'T was good advice, and meant, my son, Be good.

Best advice, bro: Think big. Don't think small. If you think small, then you're going to stay small. Think (about) the broad scope.

The best advice bro: is think big, as big as you can possibly think, and shoot for that. The bigger you aim for, the bigger you're going to be. Set the standards for yourself as high as you possibly can and also surround yourself with people who have the same visions you have.

The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.

Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.

Το know how to profit by good advice, requires nearly as much ability as to know how to act for one'self.

We give advice, we do not inspire conduct.

My advice to writers is: READ! A lot. Then read some more. read, read, read, read!

As far as advice, that will be in my next book, my next collection. I certainly never like to instruct anyone, but just say as I feel. That's the same as advice, isn't it?

My father and I were never intimate in the sense of my coming to him with confidences or seeking advice. Our relationship was rather that of host and guest. Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.

If someone gives you a piece of advice that sounds right and feels right, use it. If someone gives you a piece of advice that sounds right and feels wrong, don’t waste so much as a single second on it. It may be fine for someone else, but not for you.

Few influential people involved with the Internet claim that it is a good in and of itself. It is a powerful tool for solving social problems, just as it is a tool for making money, finding lost relatives, receiving medical advice, or, come to that, trading instructions for making bombs.

The walls have ears, ears that hear each little sound you make every time you stamp, throw a lamp.

Don't try to touch my heart, it's darker than you think. And don't try to read my mind, because it's full of disappearing ink.

The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.

Counsel and conversation is a good second education, that improves all the virtue and corrects all the vice of the former, and of nature itself.

He who calls in the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own; and he who profits by a superior understanding raises his powers to a level with the height of the superior standing he unites with.

The pride of men will not often suffer reason to have scope until it can be no longer of service.

The secret is to follow the advice the masters give you in their works while doing something different from them.

When a man tells you what people are saying about you, tell him what people are saying about him; that will immediately take his mind off your troubles.

Young girls come up to me all the time to ask for advice. They see me as a survivor.

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?

Should they whisper false of you, Never trouble to deny; Should the words they say be true, Weep and storm and say they lie.