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Advice Quotes
"However, I think, first of all, that what's happening in Sierra Leone is going to have the great influence on those governments who will be asked to provide forces to the Congo. Second, of course, the Security Council has no professional military advice organized in any way."
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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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"In those days he was wiser than he is now - he used frequently to take my advice."
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"When I read commentary about suggestions for where C should go, I often think back and give thanks that it wasn't developed under the advice of a worldwide crowd."
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"Advice and consent does not mean rubber stamp in the Senate."
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"I advise keeping four feet on the floor and all hands on deck."
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"An extreme optimist is a man who believes that humanity will probably survive even if it doesn't take his advice."
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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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"Try to meet as many authors, agents, and editors as you can."
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"When the outlook is bright, bring it before their eyes; but tell them nothing when the situation is gloomy."
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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."
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"One of the advantages of being a captain is being able to ask for advice without necessarily having to take it."
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"Sometimes the best way is to get out of your own way."
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"I once said the Queen of England could use some fashion advice."
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"When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both."
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"Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present."
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"Mean girls go far in high school. Kind women go far in LIFE."
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"Stephanie had no problem doing what shewas told, just so long as she was given a good reason why sheshould."
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"If you're given a dirty look, wash it and give it back."
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"And that's another piece of advice I'll give junior writers; when you get to the point where they take you to lunch, let the editor suggest where to go."
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"My advice is keep your lips away from the spinning things."
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"The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice."
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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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"Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro."
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"He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it."
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"Remember what I used to tel you when you were a little girl? 'A fool and her money soon part.' Current-day translation? Stop pissing away your assets at Bloomingdale's."
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"Quit now, you'll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you'll be halfway there."
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"I never take advice from anyone more messed up than I am."
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"Read the folklore masters. Go to galleries. Walk in the woods. That's what you need to be an artist or storyteller."
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"I used to take five or six books away and bring five or six books back. Nobody gave me direction or advice and I read much in the way that a boy might watch television."
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"When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him."
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"I'll tell you one thing: Don't ever give anybody your best advice, because they're not going to follow it."
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"When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles 'em."
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