Carolyn Wells Quotes
how could advice be successful? If it turns out right, the adviser is ignored and the advisee takes all the credit. If it proves mistaken, the adviser receives all the blame.
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If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.
Jack Adams
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Psychologically, it's always more pleasurable to blame others for our problems than it is to acknowledge our own responsibility.
Barry Eisler
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The idea of 'advice,' in terms of telling people advice or asking people for advice, has become not comprehensible to me, to a certain degree, due to feeling, like, for something to be accurately defined as 'good' or 'bad,' I would want to know the context, goal, perspective for it.
Tao Lin
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People don't blame the act of driving for auto accidents.
Nancy Gibbs
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I'm honored and blessed by God to be in the sport I love, and I want to accomplish all the goals I set in the sport of boxing - to be successful and make history.
Canelo Alvarez
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To be honest, I've made a game out of trying to live through my James Dean, Janis Joplin, Freddie Prinze, Jim Morrison period, those demons that we all have that we're either successful or not at making work for us rather than destroy us.
Patrick Swayze
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The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.
Samuel Johnson
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It's good to fight with your brothers, and it's good to tease them to give them advice.
Malala Yousafzai
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We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.
Felix Frankfurter
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Almost inevitably there are tensions in the picture, tensions between the outside world and the inside world. For me, a successful picture resolves these tensions without eliminating them.
Aaron Siskind
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A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
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A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down her sceptre until she is placed on the bier.
Edith Evans
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Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.
Vernor Vinge
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'3 Idiots' was remade in various languages down south, but it wasn't successful anywhere because the magic was created by Aamir Khan and Rajkumar Hirani.
Ram Charan
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Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.
Napoleon Hill
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I've reached the age where young people frequently ask for my advice. All I can really say is that electronics is a fascinating field that I continue to find fulfilling. The field is still growing rapidly, and the opportunities that are ahead are at least as great as they were when I graduated from college. My advice is to get involved and get started.
Jack Kilby
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Delivering advice assumes that our cognitive apparatus rather than our emotional machinery exerts some meaningful control over our actions.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one's children has led to a whole library of books offering advice on how to raise them.
Bruno Bettelheim
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My advice is to give up stevia, aspartame, sucralose, sugar alcohols like xylitol and malitol, and all of the other heavily-used and marketed sweeteners unless you want to slow down your metabolism, gain weight, and become an addict.
Mark Hyman
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Whether we realize it or not, we automatically copy the facial expressions we see..
Barbara Pease
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My parents were divorced when I was young. I was really brought up by my mother's side of the family.
Bill de Blasio
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I think the problem with President Obama - and I like him personally, I came into the Senate with him - is his agenda.
John Thune
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I was coming after him because he already had his homer tonight.
Bob Wickman
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how could advice be successful? If it turns out right, the adviser is ignored and the advisee takes all the credit. If it proves mistaken, the adviser receives all the blame.
Carolyn Wells