Advice Quotes - Page 43

I think the most important advice is, a person doesn't have to find out right away. It's not like their first attempt at finding a profession is the only one they're going to find. I might well have gone down other paths, and it still might have been okay. But if you find something that you love, and if it keeps deepening with each new experience, then just stay with it.

Authors of so-called 'literary' fiction insist that action, like plot, is vulgar and unworthy of a true artist. Don't pay any attention to misguided advice of that sort. If you do, you will very likely starve trying to live on your writing income. Besides, the only writers who survive the ages are those who understand the need for action in a novel.

It's very, very hard to speak truth to power when the truth is unpleasant. I think it's one of the toughest things especially a young person has to do and the only way you can do it is if you're willing to walk out the door if he doesn't take your advice. Or if you're willing to walk out the door if he goes over the line.

The one piece of advice I would give to any actor is, if you want to go out on the street without being recognised, without even being looked at, go out with a 6ft 8in beautiful transsexual. No one gives you a second glance. Especially when you're 5ft 5in.

Advice is like cooking-you should try it before you feed it to others.

Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.

President Obama's decision to bypass the constitutional advice and consent of the Senate is not an isolated incident.

My advice to someone to follow in my footsteps is to have patience. I've been doing this for twelve years.

I think Joan's advice would be: always know more than anyone else, always be discreet as possible. And never cry at work.

Giving advice is like playing pinball: only by pushing and pulling can you encourage the ball to go in a new direction and increase your score. But too much pushing and pulling can cause a tilt and stop the game.

The best putting advice I ever received was make sure you concentrate real hard on keeping that darn ball real low

It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.

The trouble with advice is that it's usually something you don't want to hear.

When we feel a strong desire to thrust our advice upon others, it is usually because we suspect their weakness; but we ought rather to suspect our own.

When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, and make an immediate application of it, as we would of the advice of a friend whom we have purposely consulted.

My advice to you is please don't ever sit in your room and lock yourself away because you don't think you're good enough.

Honor thy error as a hidden intention.

As you become more proficient, fewer people can offer you advice, although in truth, that's when you need it the most because the stakes just keep getting higher and higher.

Worship your heroes from afar; contact withers them.

Advice? I don't offer advice. Not my business. Your life is what you make it.

Advice I would give to anyone trying to find their own personal style: don't copy anybody, just be yourself, and make your own trends.

We are all prone to the malady of the introvert who with the manifold spectacle of the world spread out before him, turns away and gazes only upon the emptiness within.

Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee.

Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her.

It is funny, I don't feel old enough to give advice... But with the advisers you trust, you better listen to them. It may be bad news but that's the only way you're going to improve.