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Advice Quotes
"When you seek advice, do not withhold any facts from the person whose advice you seek."
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"She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it)."
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"Mark it, nuncle.Have more than thou showest,Speak less than thou knowest,Lend less than thou owest,Ride more than thou goest,Learn more than thou trowest,Set less than thou throwest,Leave thy drink and thy whoreAnd keep in-a-door,And thou shalt have moreThan two tens to a score."
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"Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least."
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"It is easy to give advice from a port of safety."
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"Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least."
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"If anybody seeks your advice, offer right and sincere advice."
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"Stay away from negative people. They have a problem for every solution."
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"When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand."
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"First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging!"
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"I have been trying to point out that in our lives chance may have an astonishing influence and, if I may offer advice to the young laboratory worker, it would be this - never to neglect an extraordinary appearance or happening."
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"Know when to tune out, if you listen to too much advice you may wind up making other peoples mistakes."
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"The most consistent gift and burden of motherhood is advice."
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"He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other."
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"When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice."
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"My advice to young film-makers is this: don't follow trends, start them!"
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"There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be good advice."
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"I'm certainly the last person to give advice on, well, anything."
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"Don't trust your head, Samwise, it is not the best part of you."
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"I advise keeping four feet on the floor and all hands on deck."
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"It is a good thing to follow the First Law of Holes: if you are in one, stop digging."
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"The best careers advice to give to the young is 'Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.'"
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"Listen to advice. You don't know how many writer's conferences I've taught at where at least half the audience fights all the conventions of the field."
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"The best advice he gave me was to carry on. It would have been difficult to set foot back inside a TV studio if I hadn't carried on - I don't know if I would have ever gone back in."
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"If I had to give one piece of advice to incoming college freshmen, I'd say always be true to yourself."
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"My Department has already recognised this and has been working specifically on the technical support issue since January and will offer advice to schools during the Autumn term."
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"I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both."
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"Advice and consent does not mean rubber stamp in the Senate."
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"You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board."
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"Meyer and I have a bit in common because we're both left-handed. I think it's great that he seeks out that advice because he's not too cool or too uncomfortable to ask for it."
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"Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present."
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