Quotes About Advice

The great correspondent of the seventeenth century Madame de Sevigne counseled, Take chocolate in order that even the most tireome company seem acceptable to you, which is also sound advice today!

Porta-Potty Tip: Breathe through your mouth. AND DON'T LOOK DOWN.

remember Stephen King's First Rule of Writers and Agents, learned by bitter personal experience: You don't need one until you're making enough for someone to steal ... and if you're making that much, you'll be able to take your pick of good agents.

I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs, and I will shout it from the rooftops.

In the mid-1950s Winston Churchill advised his American friends to recognize that Ho Chi Minh was unbeatable, accept his victory, and try to make the best of it. This the Dulles brothers could not do—because they were Americans.

The most familiar of all advice on writing is the old classroom cliché "Write what you know." It is very much a cliché, and it is going to get rather rough treatment over the course of this book. Yet, like most clichés, it has the residual virtue of being a halftruth.

He'd actually had parents contact him to ask if there was anything their kids in grammar school should be doing to get ready for applying to college. Looking for sane parents was what he wanted to tell them.

All the well-meaning advice in the world won't amount to a hill of beans if we're not even addressing the real problem.

captain then called to the signalman, "Signal that ship: We are on a collision course, advise you change

Unless you're influenced by my uniqueness, I'm not going to be influenced by your advice. So if you want to be really effective in the habit of interpersonal communication, you cannot do it with technique alone. You have to build the skills of empathic listening on a base of character that inspires openness and trust. And you have to build the Emotional Bank Accounts that create a commerce between hearts.

To relate effectively with a wife, a husband, children, friends, or working associates, we must learn to listen. And this requires emotional strength. Listening involves patience, openness, and the desire to understand—highly developed qualities of character. It's so much easier to operate from a low emotional level and to give high-level advice.

Point out the potential failure paths, what not to do, but don't tell them what to do.

we must learn to listen. And this requires emotional strength. Listening involves patience, openness, and the desire to understand—highly developed qualities of character. It's so much easier to operate from a low emotional level and to give high-level advice.

How do you do it? Teach me the techniques." What they're really saying is, "Give me some quick fix advice or solution that will relieve the pain in my own situation.

Listening involves patience, openness, and the desire to understand—highly developed qualities of character. It's so much easier to operate from a low emotional level and to give high-level advice.

It's so much easier to operate from a low emotional level and to give high-level advice.

And their immediate request is very revealing of their basic paradigm. "How do you do it? Teach me the techniques." What they're really saying is, "Give me some quick fix advice or solution that will relieve the pain in my own situation.

El consejo es lo que pedimos cuando ya sabemos la respuesta, pero desearíamos no saberla. ERICA JONG MANN, ESCRITORA

His stomach bubbled with anxiety. He'd waited a long time for this. Camp by the riverside. Advice he'd received years ago—and as true as ever. If you waited by the river long enough, eventually your enemies would float by.

They told me to just act like myself. When I said, How do I do that? they said to just have fun with it, but I'm not sure what they meant.

In software, consultants sometimes tell you to buy into certain software-development methods to the exclusion of other methods. That's unfortunate because if you buy into any single methodology 100 percent, you'll see the whole world in terms of that methodology. In some instances, you'll miss opportunities to use other methods better suited to your current problem.

And now Dr. Phil's latest book, Here's Some More Advice I Pulled Out of My Ass. —David Letterman

If you ask an Irishman for directions, he might be quick to answer, Well if I were going there, I would not start here.

The takeaway here is simple but powerful: just because you're great at something doesn't mean you're good at everything. Unfortunately, this fact is routinely ignored by those who engage in—take a deep breath—ultracrepidarianism, or "the habit of giving opinions and advice on matters outside of one's knowledge or competence.