Quotes About Advice

One of the best pieces of advice I've received for writing was a mantra: "Two crappy pages per day.

Cuál es el peor consejo que ves u oyes dar en tu entorno?

he is the author of Anything You Want, a collection of short life lessons that I've read at least a dozen times.

What advice would you give to a smart, driven college student about to enter the "real world"? Most of the game is about persistence. It is the most important trait. Sure, when you get an opportunity, you have to perform and you have to exceed beyond all expectations, but getting that chance is the hardest part. So keep the vision clear in your head and every day refuse all obstacles to get to the goal.

Cuál es el peor consejo que oyes dar a menudo?

my advice to my 30-year-old self is, don't be a donkey. You can do everything you want to do. You just need foresight and patience.

The books Superforecasting (by Philip E. Tetlock and Dan Gardner) and How to Measure Anything (by Douglas W. Hubbard) have some good advice on how to improve your ability to make accurate predictions. And Decisive (by Chip Heath and Dan Heath) explains four of the biggest judgment errors (like framing your decision too narrowly, or letting temporary emotions cloud your judgment) and gives tips for combating them.

Cuál es el peor consejo que ves u oyes dar en tu sector o área de conocimiento?

Durante una excursión por San Francisco, Matt me recomendó leer «La última parte» de Tim Urban en el blog Wait But Why (si sólo vas a leer un artículo este mes, que sea éste).

PICK THE RIGHT AUDIENCE TO SUCK IN FRONT OF "If anybody is going to go out and pitch investors, my advice is to make your first 10 meetings with investors that you don't really want funding from, because you're probably going to suck in the beginning. I sucked for a really long time." TF:

If you get stuck and things don't improve, be willing to get outside help.

En la vida siempre se presenta una buena oportunidad. El problema radica en saberla reconocer y eso, a menudo, no es tan sencillo. La mía, sin ir más lejos, tenía todo el aspecto de ser una maldición. Un adivino me dijo: "¡Atención! En 1993 correrás un enorme riesgo de muerte. No vueles durante todo ese año. No tomes ningún vuelo".

Douglas Stone and his colleagues give excellent advice on how to deal with some of the most challenging workplace encounters.

I don't offer advice to actors only because I've seen actors become successful through ways that would never even occur to me or that wouldn't work for me.

I don't offer advice to actors only because I've seen actors become successful through ways that would never even occur to me or that wouldn't work for me. But this has worked for me: Never memorizing a scene.

To this day, I haven't seen 'Jaws.' Because I was always in the ocean, when I was a kid, my mom said, 'See the movies that you want to, but I'm telling you, do not ever see Jaws.'

My parents encourage me to save, but I do buy the odd thing that I wouldn't tell them about.

If it is a first offense, you ground them and have a talk. The second offense would call for counseling.

I would never offer advice without the person asking for it. I, in general, don't believe in giving advice, actually, as a human being I don't.

If someone needs help, I can offer advice. I'm not always right and people don't always listen.

Like any good lawyer, I'm going to maintain a confidentiality of advice offered in confidence.

I can't say there were parts I was offered and turned down, but there were meetings for parts that I didn't go to, meetings I should have gone to, meetings I was advised against going to. I listened to that advice.

1977 is the year I made my first movie. Shortly after, I was offered quite nice roles in television. The general consensus among everyone was that I'd be out of my mind to do that.

So, I've learned - as a young Democrat, I've learned to think cautiously before offering advice to Nancy Pelosi.