Advice Quotes

She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

The worst advice I ever received from my dad was to play by the book.

Ask Mother for advice on breaking into show business.

Be careful about the advice you give, especially to your children.

Tranquilizers work only if you follow the advice on the bottle - keep away from children.

Anyone who reads advice books about romance has one problem to begin with: bad taste in literature.

Perhaps one of the only positive pieces of advice that I was ever given was that supplied by an old courtier who observed: Only two rules really count. Never miss an opportunity to relieve yourself; never miss a chance to sit down and rest your feet.

Great advice comes from people that have been around a lot longer than you.

That is where the irony of the film comes off, in terms of the language it employs - where he tries desperately to be a 'TV Dad,' to give advice and it's so pat it becomes ridiculous.

With Twitter and other social networking tools, you can get a lot of advice from great people. I learn more from Twitter than any survey or discussion with a big company.

Don't give your advice before you are called upon.

My advice has always been to study the craft of acting if you want to be an actor. There are many great schools that teach acting. NYU being one of them.

Sandler's always good. Tom Hanks gave me some good advice.

The influence of a science adviser is only as good as ears open to that science advice.

My advice is, if you are going to go on 'X Factor,' you have to know who you are as an artist.

If someone gives you so-called good advice, do the opposite; you can be sure it will be the right thing nine out of 10 times.

Saul Bellow never took my advice when he was my friend.

Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

If I can give you any advice, it's this: every hour that you spend sat on the couch doing nothing, put it to good use, because when you have kids, an hour is like a lifetime.

I understand how hard it is to talk to people about MS. You don't want pity or random advice.

Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.

I haven't been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.

I lost touch with my son in terms of advice early on. Maybe it had to do with being gone so much, doing location films when he was at an age where he needed support and guidance.

Listen to advice. You don't know how many writer's conferences I've taught at where at least half the audience fights all the conventions of the field.

I give opinions, not advice.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Advice and consent does not mean rubber stamp in the Senate.

Acting advice is a bit like your parents teaching you how to drive a car. You know they're right, but you still kind of want them to shut up a bit.

I feel arrogant trying to give people advice.

My advice is: if you've got to be miserable to write great music, then drive a truck.

The best advice that was given to me was that I had to be 10 times smarter, braver and more polite to be equal. So I did.

His track record of pragmatism, depth and candor all speak to a person who would find the Tea Party simplistic, opportunistic and misguided. Reagan was surrounded by some very smart people who gave him very sound advice. They were not wondering where certain countries are on the map.

I don't think a reporter should give advice or make predictions.

The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.

I've had a lot of really influential people in my life, like my grandmother M. J., who have helped me along the way. But there are so many of us girls in my family, and even though they're all so open and honest, who I seek advice from depends on what aspect of life I'm dealing with.

So here is what my advice would be: If God has given you a dream, you'd better get cracking because He wants you to use it. That's why He gives them to us in the first place.

I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both.

I tell people, Don't take my advice. What do I know?

I always feel stupid giving advice since I've been married, what, a year? I can say this: Be in it for the long haul and just know there are going to be rough patches. No two people are the same, there are going to be areas where you just don't click.

You never find friends them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own.

The president took the advice of my East Texas grandmother: If you can skin a cat without getting the room all bloody, why not do it that way?

Know when to tune out, if you listen to too much advice you may wind up making other peoples mistakes.

It is very kind of you to consider the possibility of my working in Pasadena, an idea which certainly is attractive, especially since it would hold out the prospect of your cooperation or advice.

When advice is freely given, the receiver is free to use it as he or she sees fit.

There is a time to provide advice and offer an opinion, and there is a time not to. Don't be too quick to offer unsolicited advice. It certainly will not endear you to people.

I actually have, in all seriousness, in the back of my mind someday to write a book, the title of which would be 'Quit Now and Other Practical Advice for the Aspiring Actor.'

Advice is such a tricky thing when you're young.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.

I hate giving advice, because people won't take it.

I'll tell you one thing: Don't ever give anybody your best advice, because they're not going to follow it.

Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.

That's my advice to all homosexuals, whether they're in the Boy Scouts, or in the Army or in high school: Shut up, don't tell anybody what you do, your life will be a lot easier.

The reason people need advice on using social media is that they're a much more complex and nuanced way to communicate than a conversation or email.

Now that it's officially summer, here's my advice to parents who want to continue teaching their kids during the next two months and learn something themselves: visit Civil War battlefields.

Who would you want to be giving you advice? Somebody who doesn't have any money?

The only place that the left hasn't placed the blame is on their agenda, so some advice for our friends on that side of the aisle: that's where you've gotta look because that's what got you into this mess.

I can give advice to anyone interested in writing in one word: Read! I think it's much more important to be a reader than to be a writer!

Sure, I have advice for people starting to write. Don't. I don't need the competition.

My advice is this. For Christ's sake, don't write a book that is suitable for a kid of 12 years old, because the kids who read who are 12 years old are reading books for adults. I read all of the James Bond books when I was about 11, which was approximately the right time to read James Bond books.

The history of the last century shows, as we shall see later, that the advice given to governments by bankers, like the advice they gave to industrialists, was consistently good for bankers, but was often disastrous for governments, businessmen, and the people generally.

I'm often asked how I write books, but I don't think my approach is suitable for everyone. If I walked into a creative writing class, all I could say to them was 'I tend to make it up as I go along.' I'm not sure that's brilliant advice.

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

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

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

There is nothing men are so generous of as advice.

My first book was published without any editorial advice. Nobody said, 'You might do this or that,' or 'Why don't we see more of this.' I merely took the book and published it.

Being on stage is a seductive lifestyle. My advice to aspiring actors is think twice. People sometimes go into acting for the wrong reasons - as a shortcut to fame and fortune. If these goals are not attained, they feel a bitter disappointment.

We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do.

It's hard to give advice. There are so many people, how do you give major advice to a group of people, it's very presumptuous.