Advice Quotes - Page 67

The way of a fool seems right to him, but a wise man listens to advice.

Usually I don't get specific advice from certain actors or actresses I work with.

We can speculate. Last time I checked, the future doesn't take my advice.

My advice to aspiring writers of fantasy trilogies or series is that each book needs two main plots. There's the 'big story', the over-arching grand plot of the entire series, and there is the complete-in-itself, one-book plot.

Don't chew gum at an audition and wear really bad clothes. That doesn't work. You need to hear that! You need to hear practical advice.

We are usually undone by our lack of understanding of ourselves.

It is said that dispensing advice is easy. What is difficult is getting anyone to listen to it.

Being listened to should be sufficiently gratifying in itself, whether or not the advice is followed.

You can read all the books you want, watch all the movies and get all of the advice, but until you're actually in directing, in the hot seat, that's when you find out what you're made of. Also, you just learn so much from doing.

When the president offered me this job, he told me that if there were situations in which I needed to speak to him or I needed his advice or I needed to ask him a question, that I could go into the Oval Office and I could ask him.

Advice can be like cod liver oil, easy enough to administer but not so pleasant to take for anybody.

I've always believed that you should stick as closely to the science as possible. And my biggest advice to reporters has been, if you're doing a climate story, talk to climate scientists. The best climate stories are done by the people who talk to climate scientists.

The pirate he will sink you with a kiss, he'll steal your heart and sail away.

One of my favorite pieces of advice about being a writer came from a very formative teacher I had as an undergraduate, named John Hersey. On our last day of class together, which was also John Hersey last day before retirement, he said, "Remember, the world doesn't need any new writers." Which at first didn't seem like great advice, but when you unpacked it, it was really that it's not enough to be confident in what you do; be conscious of bringing something to the world of readers and writers that it hasn't seen before. Something idiosyncratic.

Novelists may be able to seek advice from readers and editors, but in the end, it is up to them to get the book right.

One gets the impression that Elvis Presley does what his business advisors think will be most profitable. My advice to them: Put Elvis Presley in the studio with a bunch of good, contemporary rockers, lock the studio up, and tell him he can't come out until he's done made an album that rocks from beginning to end.

I'm very hands-on. I was very hands-on with talking to individuals. That's very important, whether it be someone giving me advice or trying to find out some type of information. If I have additional questions, I always get behind-the-scenes and dig in and talk to individuals.

Nobody is defeated until he starts blaming somebody else. My advice to you is don't fix the blame. Fix the problem.

I've never directed anything before 'Mad Men,' so I don't feel I have any advice for the other directors.

You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.

It is a foolish sheep that makes the wolf his counselor.

I used to take five or six books away and bring five or six books back. Nobody gave me direction or advice and I read much in the way that a boy might watch television.

Three may keep counsel, if two be away.

At some point, I realized I was Kaitlyning the encounter, so I decided to text Kaitlyn and ask for some advice.

You don't want romantic advice from me, you want romantic advice from Edward Cullen. I completely understand but he is completely unavailable right now and I'll tell you why. He doesn't exist.