Advice Quotes
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An agency once gave me great advice. They said: ‘Your website is important, but if we want to hire you, we are going to look at your blog.‘ And they were right. They want to know who YOU are. They want to know who we are as people, because they want to spend time with you.
Chris Burkard
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My athletes always follow my advice... unless it conflicts with what that they want to do.
Lou Holtz
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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
Erica Jong
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You know, I hate to give advice because my life has been so odd that almost nothing that's happened to me can apply.
William Joyce
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If a man knows where to get good advice, it is as though he could supply it himself.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Often, what I tell a new CEO asking for advice, or one of my own new leaders, is the two most important decisions that your team is going to watch is the first person you hire and the first person you promote - because you are saying that's the type of person I want.
John T. Chambers
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Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns, whoreoscopes, Hollywood gossip, and moral dilemmas on the level of TV soap operas. What litanies the advertisers of the good life chanted at you! What curious catechisms!
Erica Jong
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The only advice [for new writers and poets] I can offer is to be yourself: not the self someone else wants you to be, but the self you are. Enjoy yourself and your life. But most of all travel and eat. That's how we learn.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
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In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I don't think people realize how much pressure is on her. She has a lot of people around her, but I'll be there for her if she ever needs advice.
Cristie Kerr
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Economists' advice is something like patent medicine - people know it is largely manufactured by quacks and that a good percentage of the time it won't work, but they continue to buy the brand whose flavor they like.
Barbara Bergmann
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Careful with fire is good advice we know. Careful with words is ten times doubly so.
William Carleton
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People do ask me for advice for some reason. And I'll just kind of pose it back to them and let them answer on their own. I never like to give my advice 'cause I don't want them to come back and 'You were wrong! You ruined my life!' so it's more about 'Hey, this is what you just told me. What does that sound like to you?'
Craig Robinson
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My advice is to go for the messes - that's where the action is.
Steven Weinberg
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I've been exploring what works for me, and what I enjoy. It's about diet for me as well as training.And so finding something you enjoy, making sure it works for you and sticking at it would be my advice.
Nick Youngquest
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I've got no business giving advice to anyone. Even a fictional character.
Lisa Lutz
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My only advice is to try to get the job that's most like the job you want, rather than the one that's more prestigious. Always try to be the talent.
Ezra Klein
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My advice would be, if you love the sport, just play it.
Zion Williamson
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My advice to singers is always the same: 'Don't sing the song, sing the lyric.'
Mitch Leigh
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If I were to give one piece of advice, I would say to never accept anything that you hear or see at face value. As a general rule of thumb, then the more you question, the better.
Ernest Gaines
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I don't profess to know anything about marriage that anybody else doesn't know, or how to make it right. I don't want to read about somebody who's giving me relationship advice. So I try to keep some things for myself, to have a private life.
Scarlett Johansson
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Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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When we give children advice or instant solutions, we deprive them of the experience that comes from wrestling with their own problems.
Adele Faber
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I think that artists, at a certain point, can either become defiant and say that the audience is wrong, readers don't get them, and they're going to keep doing it their own way, or they can listen to the criticism - and not necessarily blindly follow the audience's requests and advice.
Adrian Tomine