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Quotes About Advice

My dad knows the business, and he tells me I've got to do what's best for me.
~ Jamie Redknapp
My dad always, he helped me by not helping me. He always said, being a producer, it was all about conviction.
~ Thomas Langmann
I ask for a lot of advice from different fathers - all kinds of dads.
~ Hank Azaria
I never take it as any real pressure. It's like my son. I only gave him one lesson. When I went to give him the second one he said, 'Oh, I can do that dad.' I said, 'Now you're on your own.'
~ Ringo Starr
He was the kind of boy any young girl should date while she's still able to recover.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Maybe you should call him,' Simon suggested, trying not to think too hard about how weird it was to be giving a demon hunter advice about possibly dating a warlock.
~ Cassandra Clare
I tried to think of what my father would tell me. 'Don't let any boy give you shit.' But he'd never said how we should go about preventing this.
~ Unknown
If you want an enemy, the soul (nafs) is sufficient. If you want advice, death is sufficient.
~ Said Nursi
My Gran said put a thimble on your finger and it helps you in case you slip with the needle and it goes up, into the brain, and death.
~ Eddie Izzard
I would quit while you're ahead. Really, it's an awful field. Just torture. Awful. You write and write, and you have to throw almost all of it away because it's not any good. I would say just stop now. You don't want to do this to yourself. That's my advice to you.
~ Philip Roth
Be a wife of whom he can make no complaint, Margaret. That is the best advice I can give to you. You will be his wife; that is to be his servant, his possession. He will be your master. You had better please him.
~ Philippa Gregory
My advice to you, as you go to your husband, is never to trust him and never love him more than he loves you.
~ Philippa Gregory
The baby should always be saved in preference to the mother. That is the advice of the Holy Church, you know that. I was only reminding women of their duty. There is no need to make everything so personal, Margaret. You make everything into your own tragedy.
~ Philippa Gregory
My advice to you is to guard yourself as you rise and destroy your enemies as you fall.
~ Philippa Gregory
But don't run too fast," my sister warned. "Remember he has to catch you.
~ Philippa Gregory
They just won't listen," and
~ Phillip C. McGraw
There is nothing which for my part I like better, Cephalus, than conversing with aged men; for I regard them as travellers who have gone a journey which I too may have to go, and of whom I ought to inquire, whether the way is smooth and easy, or rugged and difficult.
~ Plato
me complace conversar con las personas de mucha edad, pues me parece que es conveniente aprender de ellos, ya que han recorrido un camino que también nosotros deberemos recorrer de igual modo, de qué condición es: áspero y difícil o fácil y cómodo.
~ Plato
Un buen consejo viene de la ciencia y no de las riquezas.
~ Plato
NICIAS: To that I quite agree, if Socrates is willing to take them under his charge. I should not wish for any one else to be the tutor of Niceratus. But I observe that when I mention the matter to him he recommends to me some other tutor and refuses himself. Perhaps he may be more ready to listen to you, Lysimachus.
~ Plato
But I cannot advise that we remain as we are. And if any one laughs at us for going to school at our age, I would quote to them the authority of Homer, who says, that 'Modesty is not good for a needy man.' Let us then, regardless of what may be said of us, make the education of the youths our own education.
~ Plato
Yes; the meaning is only too clear. But, oh! my beloved Socrates, let me entreat you once more to take my advice and escape.
~ Plato
Practice yourself what you preach.
~ Plautus
I don't think it is possible to give tips for finding one's voice; it's one of those things for which there aren't really any tricks or shortcuts, or even any advice that necessarily translates from writer to writer. All I can tell you is to write as much as possible.
~ Poppy Z. Brite