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.

Carolyn Wells

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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
  • Free
  • You
  • Advice

• Psychologically, it's always more pleasurable to blame others for our problems than it is to acknowledge our own responsibility.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Responsibility
  • Own
  • Blame

• People don't blame the act of driving for auto accidents.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • People
  • Driving
  • Blame

• 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
  • God
  • Blessed
  • Successful

• It's good to fight with your brothers, and it's good to tease them to give them advice.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Good
  • Advice
  • Fight

• A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Responsibility
  • Successful

• 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
  • Work
  • She
  • Artist

• Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Research
  • Ignored
  • Proposing

• 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
  • People
  • Great
  • Age

• Delivering advice assumes that our cognitive apparatus rather than our emotional machinery exerts some meaningful control over our actions.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Control
  • Emotional
  • Advice

• 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
  • Great
  • Children
  • Fear

• I have been listening to people's advice. Being a parent, you need all the advice you can get.

  

  Katherine Kelly
  • People
  • Listening
  • Advice

• I have this blanket thing about giving parenting advice to parents, and that's: 'Don't take other people's advice on parenting.'

  

  Drew Lachey
  • People
  • Parents
  • Giving

• Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

  

  Plautus
  • Life
  • Friend
  • Wise

• My view is, the most important thing as prime minister is trying to make the right judgments. In order to make good judgments, you need good advice; you need good principles, and you need a clear head, and you need to have a sense of equilibrium.

  

  David Cameron
  • Good
  • Important
  • Trying

• My parents raised me and my siblings in an armor of advice, an ocean of alarm bells so someone wouldn't steal the breath from our lungs, so that they wouldn't make a memory of this skin.

  

  Clint Smith
  • Parents
  • Advice
  • Ocean

• When I was a prosecutor in San Francisco I would get advice on trying cases from public defenders and defense attorneys.

  

  Christine Pelosi
  • Trying
  • Advice

• There are many people I admire and seek advice from, but for the most part, I just follow my gut instead of trying to mimic someone else's leadership style.

  

  Lauren Bush
  • People
  • Trying
  • Style

• My advice to an aspiring actor would be to never stop learning or working for what you want. Nothing comes easy, ever, if you want something, you have to work for it. By working for it I mean work on your craft, learn from people who have something to teach. It's just like anything else, practice makes perfect.

  

  James Lafferty
  • People
  • Work
  • Stop

• My own advice to people who would be in office for two or three terms is that they must accept democratic rotation: ideally, not put themselves up for re-election and allow the system to work.

  

  Kofi Annan
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• More and more, our clients expect not only relevant advice, not only setting a road map or helping them plan, but being committed to business results.

  

  Pierre Nanterme
  • Business
  • Road
  • Advice

• I meditate. I breathe out what I can't control and focus on the positives.

  

  Deepika Padukone
  • Control
  • Focus
  • Breathe

• You have to create something from nothing.

  

  Ralph Lauren
  • You
  • Nothing
  • Create

• 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
  • Advice
  • Successful
  • Blame