Advice Quotes

I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of the conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing on whether it is true or not.

~ Peter Medawar

The best way in the world for breaking up a writer's block is to write a lot.

~ John Gardner

I will call bullshit on that so many times that the word bullshit will lose all meaning. -Milo

~ Cora Carmack

Having bad experiences sometimes helps; it makes it clearer what it is youshould be doing. I know that sounds very Pollyannaish but it’s true. People who have had only good experiences aren’t very interesting. They may be content, and happy after a fashion, but they aren’t very deep. It may seem a misfortune now, and it makes things difficult, but well—it’s easy to feel all the happy, simple stuff. Not that happiness is necessarily simple. But I don’t think you’re going to have a life like that, and I think you’ll be the better for it. The difficult thing is to not be overwhelmed by the bad patches. You mustn’t let them defeat you. You must see them as a gift—a cruel gift, but a gift nonetheless.

~ Peter Cameron

Write down what your reader needs, no more, no less. Reading should be textured, but not obscure. Henry James could make an entire paragraph out of a single sentence. The reader is completely sensory deprived of the story until the words show the way. If a reader were practiced, then James’ prose could be followed and appreciated for its economy and elegance.

~ Christopher T. Garry

Writing is a profession that has no real career structure and your best advice when you hit a difficulty is probably going to come from another writer one or two rungs on the career ladder ahead of you.

~ Sara Sheridan

Theoretically there's no reason one should get [writer's block], if one understands that writing, after all, is only writing, neither something one ought to feel deeply guilty about nor something one ought to be inordinately proud of.

~ John Gardner

You can make it right, just faith the future and work towards it

~ Oladosu Feyikogbon

whenthings turns upside down, think it over and let new come apace

~ Oladosu Feyikogbon

This is not a meritocracy.

~ Sallie Tisdale

We've got this heat going on, that's all. If it's all the same to you, I'd rather not go into that end ofthings.Oh, it's all the same to me. You're both adults and you got two working brains between you. Bothof you were raised right, so what you do is your own business. Next time, though, lock the damn doorfirst.

~ Nora Roberts

Erase the parts that make me unhappy. I guess that means emphasizing the parts that do.

~ Cassie Mae

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

My best advice is to first write for yourself and stay in your story and just pour all of your good stuff and bad stuff into it. By 'stuff,' I mean all the experiences and pleasures and little hurts that make up a life. Because even (and especially) the really hard experiences are worth having, if you can channel those emotions into something beautiful.

~ Jenny Han

It seems that many of us have the goal of making other people conform to our desires and expectations, whether or not we would admit to such a thing. We see this especially in parents who get upset because their children don’t conform to their expectations, but instead follow a pattern of development that is unique and individual. We often use language with peers and colleagues that encourages them to change their ways of doing things to our ways of doing things: “You should” and “You ought to” are usually presented as advice, but in the end they really are about changing someone else’s ways of doing things. And we may offer this “advice” in a spirit of love and helpfulness, but we can be much more helpful when we help them to find their own ways of changing things. It can be incredibly freeing to spend an entire day not looking to try to change the behaviors, beliefs, or attitudes of other human beings. If we approach life in this way, we may learn much about the other people in our lives instead of trying to make them be like us.

~ Tom Walsh

The longer you wait for the future, the shorter it will be.

~ Loesje

Always know what they want to hear - not just what everyone knew they wanted to hear but what they didn't even dare name to themselves. Show them the pattern. Give them permission to do what they wanted all along.

~ Nicola Griffith

I'm none too big on giving advice,' Aunt Al said. 'Most times when folks ask for advice, they already know what they should do. They just want to hear it from someone else.

~ Jeannette Walls

I’m doing what I’ve always done. Learning from the mistakes of others who take my advice.

~ Nitya Prakash

When someone gives you advice, just ask them to give it in writing and they will either keep mum or will run from there.

~ Amit Kalantri

Albeit i may die sleep not in the coffen of gold and even beer no fruit, but my impact after depart is my particular to paradise.

~ Oladosu Feyikogbon

No engineer can go upon a new work and not find something peculiar, that will demand his careful reflection, and the deliberate consideration of any advice that he may receive; and nothing so fully reveals his incapacity as a pretentious assumption of knowledge, claiming to understand everything.

~ John Bloomfield Jervis

The hardest lesson you will ever learn will be to love yourself. But you can do it. There will always be days when you hate yourself, days when you wish you had never been born. But darling, you are beautiful, and if Shakespeare had met you, you would've inspired his 18th sonnet, and if Monet had known you, he would've given up painting water lilies and chosen to paint you instead. I know it’s hard to love yourself, but sometimes it’s okay to be a little selfish with your love..When you begin to feel worthless, remember that the stars died for you. You are made of elements that are thousands of years old, elements that make up every atom of your being. When you want to cut your wrists, remember that the souls of stars live in your veins. Don’t kill them.Live for the life you always wanted but were too scared to pursue.Live for you. Live for me. Live for every person who has ever loved you, for the people who have come before you, so that you may be here today.Live for the fire that burns in your soul, that tells you: keep going, you’re almost there, just a little farther. Because when Rome burned down the emperor didn't run away, he stayed and he sang for his people. Stay. Sing for your people. Sing for us.

~ M.k.

Just do what makes sense.

~ Jill Telford

Sometimes advises from others are more difficult to bear with than even slang.

~ Amit Kalantri

Life is war, war is game so life is game. Either lose or win. Know it earlier

~ Oladosu Feyikogbon

I cannot stress this enough: do not take powerful hallucinogens before going to a Holocaust memorial.

~ Nathan Rabin

I thought of a sign I had seen... another scary time, when I was two hundred feet up in a giant karri tree in South West Australia. At the point where the precarious spiral ladder grew even steeper and narrower to reach the fire-watch platform atop the tree, the sign said: 'Reassess Your Situation Now: Turn Back if You Are Not Comfortable'. Then, as now, that seemed like damn good advice.

~ Robert Michael Pyle

I may die young, but at least I'll die smart.... If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart...Best advice I can ever give you.

~ Ziad K. Abdelnour

sometimes you gotta Run before you can Walk.

~ Tony Stark

People need to learn the art of making an argument. Often there is no right or wrong. It's just your opinion vs someone else's opinion. How you deliver that opinion could make the difference between opening a mind, changing an opinion or shutting the door. Sometimes folk just don't know when they've argued enough. Learn when to shut up.

~ J'son M. Lee

It just seemed to me, that if you valued a thing, you found ways to keep it from being compromised.

~ R.k. Lilley

To give advice to a man who asks what to do with his life implies something very close to egomania. To presume to point a man to the right and ultimate goal — to point with a trembling finger in the RIGHT direction is something only a fool would take upon himself.

~ Hunter S. Thompson

Treat your advices like your money, don't give it to others unless they ask for it.

~ Amit Kalantri

I speak less because my words are precious and my advices are priceless.

~ Amit Kalantri

Richard Feynman was fond of giving the following advice on how to be a genius. You have to keep a dozen of your favorite problems constantly present in your mind, although by and large they will lay in a dormant state. Every time you hear or read a new trick or a new result, test it against each of your twelve problems to see whether it helps. Every once in a while there will be a hit, and people will say, 'How did he do it? He must be a genius!

~ Gian-Carlo Rota

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.

~ Samuel Smiles

Don't bother to ring a bell in the ear that doesn't listen. Move to another ear, and if he doesn't listen to your bell, sit back and listen to his nemesis.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

My father told me that it is only a mad man that keeps bushy hairs. I asked him, what about the great men with bushy hairs?. He replied, education had made them mad, so study to be wise and sane.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

The only people that should be in your life are ones that make you smile.

~ Christine Minasian