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Remember: when people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for them, they are almost always ri...

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In the shower today I tried to think about the best advice I'd ever been given by another writer. Th...

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Now go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. B...

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Talk is free but the wise man chooses when to spend his words.

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Neil GaimanOdd and the Frost Giants

Really, he thought, if you couldn't trust a poet to offer sensible advice, who could you trust?

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Neil GaimanThe Graveyard Book

I'm often asked by parents what advice can I give them to help get kids interested in science? And I...

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The lessons my parents taught are still with me. I keep a tighter leash when raising my kids than my...

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Nicholas SparksThree Weeks With My Brother

Good advice I always hated, but lookin back it made me greater.

The malpractice for advice-giving is like five times as much as a craniotomy.

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Nicole KraussMan Walks Into a Room

From then on, I was terrified that I or one of my parents were going to die. My mother worried me th...

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To keep your marriage brimming,With love in the loving cup,Whenever you're wrong, admit it;Whenever ...

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I think that when you invite people to your home, you invite them to yourself.

Your motivation has to be rock solid. You have to want it so bad that even th threat of death won't ...

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As a child of privilege, no one is your friend. They will claim to be your friends, they will laugh ...

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The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

You are not listening to a word I am saying . . . and I am making the most delightful plans for your...

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People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of g...

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Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray

Lord Henry smiled. "He gives you good advice, I suppose. People are very fond of giving away what th...

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Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray

Never ask another person's advice about anything God makes you decide before Him.

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Oswald ChambersMy Utmost for His Highest

I always advise people never to give advice.

A writer or any artist can’t expect to be embraced by the people. I've done records where it seemed ...

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Don’t waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.

Finally there are those who saw at once that the question was a trap. There is no answer. Instead of...

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Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should...

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One cannot expect positive results from an educational or political action program which fails to re...

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I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of the conviction that...

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Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.

There is nothing which for my part I like better, Cephalus, than conversing with aged men; for I reg...

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If you can quit, then quit. If you can't quit, you're a writer.

so much is happening now; you must be patient like someone who is sick, and confident like someone w...

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It's a thrill to fulfill your own childhood dreams, but as you get older, you may find that enabling...

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We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.

...we ought not meanwhile to make use of doubt in the conduct of life.

What you learn from others you can use to follow.What you learn for yourself you can use to lead.

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Richard HammingThe Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn

The best advice I've ever received is, 'No one else knows what they're doing either.

I could never give relationship advice to anybody!

I'm always suspicious of disinterested interest.

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Robert A. HeinleinStranger in a Strange Land

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

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Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

Advice!Nobody tells us how to be men. We just are." "That is probably why you make such a bad job of...

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What did you spend so much time talking about with Ila? If you weren’t dancing with that long-legged...

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Leadership is about having the courage to go against the advice of the so-called experts and doing w...

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I feel very strongly about putting questions; it partakes too much of the style of the day of judgem...

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Robert Louis StevensonThe Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

My favorite cure for boredom is sleep. It's very easy to get to sleep when bored and very hard to ge...

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Robert M. PirsigZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

The great sage Thales once put the general matter succinctly "Oh master," he was asked, "what is the...

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Robert TriversDeceit and Self-Deception: Fooling Yourself the Better to Fool Others

If it was true that all effort led to a vast abyss, she had two recommendations to begin with, first...

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You gotta look out for number one, but don't step in number two!

Above all, do not attempt to be exhaustive.

If you can keep your head when all about youAre losing theirs and blaming it on you,If you can trust...

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I would rather be confused for 10 minutes than bored for 5 seconds.

[What Rushdie took away from reading Gunter Grass's The Tin Drum]: Go for broke. Always try and do t...

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A verbal contract is worth about as much as the paper it's written on.

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failu...

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Advice is like snow the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon and the deeper it sinks into t...

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Great News! If you quit being cunty the whole world will stop being against you!

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.

Beware of advice about successful people and their methods. For starters, no two situations are alik...

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Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy a funny hat. Ta...

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If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straig...

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I like to think of this little [newspaper] column as a brassière, or do I mean brasserie? Brazier, p...

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I used to hammer away at the idea of simplicity.In both fiction and non-fiction, there's only one qu...

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A successful marriage was a balancing act-that was a thing everyone knew. A successful marriage was ...

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When you're twenty-one, life is a roadmap. It's only when you get to twenty-five or so that you begi...

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... good advice was sometimes easier to give than receive.

So okay― there you are in your room with the shade down and the door shut and the plug pulled out of...

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Stephen KingOn Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.

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Stephen KingOn Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

If thou wouldst seek justice, thyself must be just.

Let's go invent tomorrow instead of worrying about what happened yesterday.

You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you're not ...

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Always speak politely to an enraged dragon.

Children who paddle where the ocean bed shelves steeplyMust take great care they do not, Paddle too ...

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It's disconcerting to realize how little you have to say to someone who once occupied such a promine...

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Are you afraid now?" said Gregor."At times," she admitted. "But it is no worse than if I were in Reg...

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How do you bear it?" Finnick looks at me in disbelief. "I don't, Katniss! Obviously, I don't. I drag...

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Here's some advice. Stay alive.

Though our castes and institutions are apparently linked with our religion, they are not so. These i...

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Swami VivekanandaThe Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda: v. 3

It's always better to attack than to defend," Coram had told her when they talked about fencing late...

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Tamora PierceAlanna: The First Adventure

Gran, for the gods' love, it's talk like yours that starts riots!" I said keeping my voice down. "Wi...

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Guarding your heart and protecting your dignity are a little bit more important than clarifying the ...

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Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the co...

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Kiss my foot, sir; my face is for mouths of consequence.

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Thomas HardyFar from the Madding Crowd

When I want a broad-minded opinion for general enlightenment, distinct from special advice, I never ...

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Thomas HardyFar from the Madding Crowd

Can't say it often enough - change your hair, change your life.

The proverb warns that "You should not bite the hand that feeds you." But maybe you should if it p...

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My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your ...

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Stay cool, and wait for opportunity.

What I have learned in this life is you can never be ashamed of where you come from.

Everybody's got skeletons in the closets. Every once in a while, you've got to open up the closet an...

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Be happy without picking flaws.

Let us record the atoms as they fall upon the mind in the order in which they fall, let us trace the...

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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with i...

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Philip thought that in throwing over the desire for happiness he was casting aside the last of his i...

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Monsieur Foinet got up and made as if to go, but he changed his mind, and, stopping, put his hand on...

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You cannot write unless you write much.

I have always hesitated to give advice, for how can one advise another how to act unless one knows t...

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Most of us are searching-consciously or unconsciously- for a degree of internal balance and harmony ...

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