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I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you.
Novelists may be able to seek advice from readers and editors, but in the end, it is up to them to get the book right.
Sometimes the best coaching advice you can get is simple acknowledgement that theres nothing else you could have done.
Here's my advice: Go ahead and be whacky. Get into a crazy frame of mind and ask what's funny about what you're doing.
If I had to limit my advice on healthier living to just one tip, it would be simply to learn how to breathe correctly.
Steve Jobs once asked me for some advice about retail, but I said, 'I am not sure at all we are in the same business.'
My advice to first time filmmakers is believe in yourself and the message you want to give in the film you are making.
Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice.
I've gotten a lot of good advice from my parents. Probably the best advice I've ever gotten from my mom is 'Let it go.'
They keep telling me don't save you. If I ignore all that advice and something isn't right then who will I complain to?
Sometimes the best coaching advice you can get is simple acknowledgement that there's nothing else you could have done.
Think of me as a fellow patient in the same hospital who, having been admitted a little earlier could give some advice.
All the well-meaning advice in the world won't amount to a hill of beans if we're not even addressing the real problem.
When you say Yes, say it quickly. But always take a half hour to say No, so you can understand the other fellow's side.
Get the advice of everybody whose advice is worth having - they are very few - and then do what you think best yourself.
If anybody said that I should die if I did not take beef-tea or mutton, even under medical advice, I would prefer death.
Listen soberly: Just be 'I Am'; just stay here! ... There's nothing that can stop you from following this simple advice.
A girl's got to be fun. It's the one bit of advice I always give to friends of mine who are thinking of getting married.
I don't know that I'm in a position to give campaign advice to Donald Trump, given that he just whipped me in a primary.
When I was a prosecutor in San Francisco I would get advice on trying cases from public defenders and defense attorneys.
I asked [Donald Trump] if he had any advice for Charles Foster Kane and he said, "Yeah, get yourself a different woman."
In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.
A man who works evil against another works it really against himself, and bad advice is worst for the one who devised it
I don't think anybody can be told how to act. I think you can give advice. But you have to find your own way through it.
My advice for writers is to get a good day job. It takes the pressure off writing if you have a job that pays the bills.
Good places for aphorisms: in fortune cookies, on bumper stickers, and on banners flying over the Palace of Free Advice.
And Finally I put down the last and the best advice I knew, on growing older. 'Stand up straight and try not to get fat.
I'm the wrong person to ask for advice when it comes to losing weight because I've never been on that side of the fence.
me giving my mom romantic advice is kind of like a goldfish giving a snail advice on how to fly.” -Will Grayson (pg. 66)
The Christian message is not an exhortation - "try hard to be good." Good advice, but there is no saving gospel in that.
The best advice that was given to me was that I had to be 10 times smarter, braver and more polite to be equal. So I did.
I think Joan's advice would be: always know more than anyone else, always be discreet as possible. And never cry at work.
Take my advice and live for a long, long time. Because the maddest thing a man can do is this life is to let himself die.
The worst piece of advice I've gotten in my whole career is from somebody who said, Remember, it's all about likeability.
When you have an attorney giving you advice, it would be nice to know what their financial relationship is to the advice.
I disagree with the advice of 'write about what you know.' Write about what you need to know, in an effort to understand.
Advice to aspiring ministers: Get in the Word. Stay in the Word. Master the Word. And for heaven's sake, preach the Word!
My advice to you is please don't ever sit in your room and lock yourself away because you don't think you're good enough.
I don't turn to greeting cards for wisdom and advice, but they are a fine reflection of the general drift of the culture.
It is a happy circumstance in human affairs that evils which are not cured in one way will cure themselves in some other.
I took William Zinsser's advice that you write to yourself and you hope that there are people out there who are like you.
My dad told me when I was very young, that I should not get married before 30. His only advice to me was to live my life.
One of the pieces of advice that we give at YC is: try to work together on a project rather than just doing an interview.
Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous that takes some talent.
The connoisseur of painting gives only bad advice to the painter. For that reason I have given up trying to judge myself.
Clearly, we need to have the very best advice and counsel on what actions can be taken to help lower the cost of gasoline.
I know of no other advice than this: Go within and scale the depths of your being from which your very life springs forth.
...Seek counsel of very pious, disinterested persons, and follow the call of O[ur] L[ord] and the advice of those persons.
Do not advise too much: do the job yourself. This is the only advice you can give to others. Do it and others will follow.
If I'd only followed CNBC's advice, I'd have a million dollars today. Provided I'd started with a hundred million dollars.