Quotes About Advice

Be like father, but don't do like father

I suppose she only wanted what she couldn't have. Well, people were that way. To hell with people. The Catholic Church had an awfully good way of handling all that. Good advice, anyways. Not to think about it. Oh, it was swell advice. Try and take it sometime. Try and take it.

I suppose she only wanted what she couldn't have. Well, people were that way. To hell with people. The Catholic Church had an awfully good way of handling all that. Good advice, anyway. Not to think about it. Oh, it was swell advice. Try and take it sometime. Try and take it.

For a man to take it at thirty-four as a guide-book to what life holds is about as safe as it would be for a man of the same age to enter Wall Street direct from a French convent, equipped with a complete set of the more practical Alger books.

Write the truest sentence you know. Then write another. -- Hemingway's advice to other young writers in A Moveable Feast.

Look, if you can't write why don't you learn to write criticism?

No seas idiota —dijo en voz alta—. Y no te duermas. Gobierna tu bote.

Bana bak, Billy, bir s?r vereyim sana. Ne varsa çarÅŸaflarda var, Billy. Kad?nlardan uzak dur, atlardan uzak dur, sonra durdu, kartallardan uzak dur, Billy. Atlar? seven atlar? bulur, kartallar? seven kartallar? bulur. Durdu, ba??n? çarÅŸaf?n alt?na soktu. Gitmem gerekiyor dedi Uçan Billy Turner. Kad?nlar? seven içkiyi bulur dedi William Campbell. Atlar? seven...

His father, who ran his life more disastrously than any man that he had ever know, gave marvelous advice. He distilled it out of the bitter mash of all his previous mistakes with the freshening additions of the new mistakes he was about to make and he gave it with an accuracy and precision that carried the authority of a man who had heard all the more grisly provisions of his sentence and gave it no more importance than he had given to the fine print on a transatlantic steamship ticket.

My six words of advice to writers are: Read, read, read, write, write, write.

És fàcil, per al qui es troba lliure de penes, donar consell i fer avertiments als qui pateixen.

Clyman trying to warn Reed about the desolation he had just seen in the Great Salt Lake Desert. Remembering the conversation years later, Clyman said he told Reed to "take the regular wagon track, and never leave it—it is barely possible to get through if you follow it, and it may be impossible if you don't.

Don't ever let this husband of yours, whoever he is, know you can cook, Dabney Fairchild, or you'll spend the rest of your life in the kitchen. That's the first thing I want to tell you.

So it is that much homiletical advice tends to function in reverse—that is, it works reasonably well in evaluating a sermon already formed, but provides very little help en route!

She believes that I love her!" cried the King. "What a fatal mistake! What is to be done to undeceive her?" "You know best," answered the Mermaid, smiling kindly at him. "When people are as much in love with one another as you two are, they don't need advice from anyone else.

A man must himself be cleansed, before cleansing others: himself become wise, that he may make others wise; become light, and then give light: draw near to God, and so bring others near; be hallowed, then hallow them; be possessed of hands to lead others by the hand, of wisdom to give advice. Gregory of Nazianzus, Oration 2.71

The temptation to tell a chief in a great position the things he most likes to hear is one of the commonest explanations of mistaken policy,' he had written.

In his last letter to Hitler, on December 1941, Gandhi praised the Führer's 'bravery [and] devotion to your Fatherland . . . Nor do we believe that you are the monster described by your opponents.'82 Gandhi was fortunate that it was the Viceroy who ruled India rather than Hitler; the Führer's advice to Lord Halifax when they met at Berchtesgaden in 1937 had been 'Shoot Gandhi.

To me, Madam Yennefer, wisdom includes the ability to turn a deaf ear to foolish or insincere advice.

Ignorance is no justification for ill-conceived actions. When one doesn't know or has doubts it's best to seek advice.

Ignorance"—Regis smiled—"is no justification for ill-conceived actions. When one doesn't know or has doubts it's best to seek advice…

Neznanje - nasmeši se Regis - nije opravdanje za nepromišljeno delanje. Kad se nešto ne zna, kad ?ovek sumnja, onda je dobro da se posavetuje...

L'ignoranza non costituisce una giustificazione per gli atti sconsiderati. Quando non si sa, quando si hanno dei dubbi, è bene chiedere consiglio.

One of the primary reasons we don't seek counsel from the wise people around us is that we already know what we are going to hear--and we just don't want to hear it.