Advice Quotes

Women who seek advice from single women about getting a man is like asking a homeless man how to be rich.

~ Habeeb Akande

[What Rushdie took away from reading Gunter Grass's The Tin Drum]: Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin talking. Aim for the stars. Keep grinning. Be ruthless. Argue with the world. And never forget that writing is as close as we get to keeping a hold on the thousand and one things--childhood, certainties, cities, doubts, dreams, instants, phrases, parents, loves--that go on slipping like sand, through our fingers.

~ Salman Rushdie

Ignoring your intuition telling you this person is not for you will likely lead to more time wasted and more disappointments along the way.

~ Stephan Labossiere

In the end I chose the names I still liked after repeating then 100 times. It's a foolproof test. You repeat something 100 times and if you still like it it's because it's good. This doesn't just work for names, it works for anything, food or people.

~ Juan Pablo Villalobos

To be a better cook, cook more. To be a better writer, read more.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

You say you've a life, but i see it as movie being directed by someone else, being edited often here and there. life is when you've the remote control of it, and its been controled by the person you love.

~ Yaqub Khan

Ellis,” he said. “You’re watchin’ a miracle right under your nose.” He gave a few of the seeds to Ellis and let him drop them into the hole he had already made. “In each of them little things, God put life. Now you take care with it, and you feed it with water and sunlight. And, most important of all of ’em, put it in good ground, and that life is gonna sprout right out.

~ Tracy Winegar

Choose the things that matter to God. See things as He sees them. Whatever results, that is the best way.

~ Jason M. Steffens

Saepa stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint scripturas. (Turn the stylus [to erase] often if you would write something worthy of being reread.)

~ Horace

Go for your goal, be ambitious. Do what you dream, unlock your wishes.

~ Aaron David

Take it from an old cadaver. Let go of the past.

~ David S.e. Zapanta

Just do it. Now.

~ M. Yeats

If you dont speak, they will know you know more than you're telling them. And if they know that, they'll find a way to get what you know out of you. Believe me, they'll get everything out, Willie. Don't have any qualms about it -- make your story good and make it believable. Silence won't work! This was an expert giving me the best advice she could. From that point on, I worked hard not to remember the people I loved, to try instead to create another life, a false life...I tried to become a person concerned only with very simple things -- and scared. I tried to become the woman I needed to be in order to live.

~ Diet Eman

The point is , if i'd known all this years earlier, maybe I would have put some thought into how I actually wanted to dress, look and behave because I would have understood that I didn't need to be constrained to playing the part of the platonic, misunderstood friend. Unlike Ryder, I wasn't actually cast in that part by anyone, other than myself.

~ Hadley Freeman

When facing unbeatable odds, just think of yourself as unbeatably odd. (The Hero's Guide to Being a Hero)

~ Christopher Healy

Sometimes not much is just enough.

~ John O'callaghan

First we form habits, then they form us.

~ Mark Matteson

People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living isn't complicated enough

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Remember, you are the same today as you will be in five years, except for two things: the people you meet and the books you read. Choose both carefully.

~ Charlie Tremendous Jones

He’s mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf, a horse’s health, a boy’s love, or a whore’s oath.

~ William Shakespeare

If the music is amazing, you can get away with anything.

~ Brian Logan Dales

Lesson learned: If a guy tells you you’re his second choice, don’t make him your first.

~ Kate Madison

Most of us would rather risk a catastrophe than read the instructions.

~ Mignon Mclaughlin

Mom lies down next to me and we both stare at the ceiling in complete silence. “Boys are like candy,” she suddenly says. I grin. “Really, Mom? That’s your advice? Boys are like candy. What is that? Forrest Gump on teens?

~ Rucy Ban

Wanna know the fastest way to unhappiness? Spend your time judging other people's reasons for happiness! That way, you'll quickly lose your own! The next time you look back at yourself (when you've taken a break from judging others) you'll think Oh! Where did MY happiness go? because you were too busy thinking that gay people shouldn't be happy... or, you know, something like that.

~ C. Joybell C.

Most of us are searching-consciously or unconsciously- for a degree of internal balance and harmony between ourselves and the outside world, and if we happen to become aware-like Stravinsky- of a volcano within us, we will compensate by urging restraint. By that same token, someone who bore a glacier within them might urge passionate abandon. The danger is, as Bergman points out, that a glacial personality in need of passionate abandon may read Stravinsky and apply restraint instead.

~ Walter Murch

Good habits are hard to form and easy to live with. Bad habits are easy to form and hard to live with. Pay attention. Be aware . If we don't consciously form good ones, we will unconsciously form bad ones.

~ Mark Matteson

Sometimes life gets weird. Hang in there, it gets better.

~ Tanner Patrick

Do you know your Bible?''Uh, not very well.''It merits study, it contains very practical advice for most emergencies.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

It’s often mistaken for good advice, but wisdom cannot be imparted to someone. Wisdom can only be earned; it’s a by-product of experience, not necessarily knowledge, otherwise I would be stalking Oprah right now, begging for a transfusion.

~ Renee Carlino

At last the gardener arrived, mumbling something about rascals and country bumpkins, and took me out into the park, giving me a lengthy lecture as he did so. I was instructed to be sober and industrious, and not to wander about aimlessly or waste my time in unproductive activities: if I heeded this counsel, he said, I might in time achieve something. He gave me much other useful and well-phrased advice too, but I have since forgotten almost all of it.

~ Joseph Von Eichendorff

Never trust anyone Daniel, especially the people you admire

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Avoid transgression. How's that for advice.

~ Marilynne Robinson

Million dollar ideas are a dime a dozen. The determination to see the idea through is what's priceless.

~ Robert Dieffenbach

Never put off until tomorrow that which may be avoided entirely.

~ Bill Mckean

If you have a story to tell, put it out there. Get the thing done. No excuses. No procrastinating. No apologies. It will never be as good as you want it to be, so forget about perfection. Just be satisfied that you've done the best work you can do at this stage in your life as an author. Then roll the rocket onto the launch pad and fire it off. After that, write another story. Always keep going. Move fast. Stay one step ahead of the forces of distraction and self-doubt. Love your characters enough to give them a good home. Love your readers enough to give them a place of refuge from life's tragedies, big and small. And love the world you live in enough to make it the world of your dreams.

~ James Hampton

Opportunities happen when timing, connects, and personalities converge.

~ Joel T. Mcgrath

No one is normal. Everyone is just pretending to be normal.

~ Alessandra Torre

To all the talented young men who wander about feeling that there is nothing in the world for them to do, I should say: 'Give up trying to write, and, instead, try not to write. Go out into the world; become a pirate, a king in Borneo, a labourer in Soviet Russia; give yourself an existence in which the satisfaction of elementary physical needs will occupy almost all your energies.' I do not recommend this course of action to everyone, but only to those who suffer from the disease which Mr Krutch diagnoses. I believe that, after some years of such an existence, the ex-intellectual will fin that in spite of is efforts he can no longer refrain from writing, and when this time comes his writing will not seem to him futile.

~ Bertrand Russell

You cannot convince someone to see something that they do not want to see, no matter how much you know it would improve their lives. You have to love and accept them exactly as they are today. If you cannot do that, you have to let them go and find their own way, in their own time, if they ever choose to do so.Otherwise, you'll be giving them the power over your happiness, too.

~ Doe Zantamata