Quotes about Advice

An Old Farmer's Advice:

* Your fences need to be horse-high, pig-tight and bull-strong. *

* Keep skunks and bankers at a distance.*

* Life is simpler when you plow around the stump.*

* A bumble bee is considerably faster than a John Deere tractor.*

* Words that soak into your ears are whispered...not yelled.*

* Meanness don't jes' happen overnight.*

* Forgive your enemies. It messes up their heads.*

* Do not corner something that you know is meaner than you.*

* It don't take a very big person to carry a grudge.*

* You cannot unsay a cruel word.*

* Every path has a few puddles.*

* When you wallow with pigs, expect to get dirty.*

* The best sermons are lived, not preached.

* Most of the stuff people worry about ain't never gonna happen anyway.*

* Don't judge folks by their relatives.*

* Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.*

* Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you'll enjoy it a second time.*

* Don't interfere with somethin' that ain't bothering you none.*

* Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a Rain dance.*

* If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop diggin'.*

* Sometimes you get, and sometimes you get got.*

* The biggest troublemaker you'll probably ever have to deal with, watches you from the mirror every mornin'.*

* Always drink upstream from the herd.*

* Good judgment comes from experience, and a lotta that comes from bad judgment.*

* Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier than puttin' it back in.*

* If you get to thinkin' you're a person of some influence, try orderin' somebody else's dog around.*

* Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply.*

* Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.*

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do."

Advice to A Young Writer

1. If possible, be Russian. And live in another country. Play chess. Be an active trader between languages. Carry precious metals from one to the other. Remind us of Stravinsky. Know the names of plants and flying creatures. Hunt gauzy wings with snares of gauze. Make science pay tribute. Have a butterfly known by your name.

2. Do not be awed by giant predecessors. Be ill-tempered with their renown. Point out flaws. Frighten interviewers from Time. Appear in Playboy. Sell to the movies.

3. Use unlikely materials. Who would choose Pnin as hero, but how did we live before Pnin?

4. Delight in perversity. Put a noun into the dictionary. Now we recognize the Lolita at every corner, see her sucking sweetened milk through straws at every soda fountain, dream her through all our fantasies.

5. Burn pedants in pale fire. Accept no fashions. Be your own fashion. Do not rely on earlier triumphs. Be new at each appearance.

6. Age indomitably, in the European manner. Do not finish your labours young. Be a planet, not a meteor. Honor the working day. Sit at your desk.

If people need to grow at their own rates, then you might ask, "In what way is it your opportunity to help others grow spiritually?" And I can offer two answers: first, it is appropriate to share your views when someone asks, and second, allow that you may know more of the situation, have greater insight into both the nature of the problem and the solution, than you might share with that person. A true spiritual teacher knows more than he or she necessarily verbalizes, using temperance and love to be guided to say what is appropraite without showing off his or her knowledge or saying what would not arise from the greatest care, kindness, and compassion.

Speak in French when you can't think of the English for a thing - turn out your toes as you walk - and remember who you are!

Curtsey while you're thinking what to say, it saves time.

Where do you come from?  And where are you going?  Look up, speak nicely, and don't twiddle your fingers all the time.

Smile, breathe and go slowly.

Do not run away; let go.  Do not seek; for it will come when least expected.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

Do not take advice from those who do not face the results

Life is the sky as night is the day
Death is the time to end the play

Hate is when you can never see
and Love is when it's just you and me

Don't judge a man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.

She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).

Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most, always like it the least.

"I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career."

Philosophy is good advice, and no one gives good advice at the top of his lungs.

A knife of the keenest steel requires the whetstone, and the wisest man needs advice.

If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.

In those days he was wiser than he is now - he used frequently to take my advice.

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

We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.

My advice to the women's clubs of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias.

Boys flying kites, draw in their white winged birds, But you can't do that when you're flying words. Careful with fire is good advice we know, But careful with words is ten times doubly so. Thoughts unexpressed my sometimes fall back dead, But God Himself can't kill them once they're said.

Do not bring me your successes; they weaken me. Bring me your problems; they strengthen me.

Ask yourself: What am I willing to sacrifice for what I want to become?

Success does not come to those who wait - and it doesn't wait for anyone to come to it.

overcoming challenges 1. Knowledge of self 2. Knowledge of others 3. Desire to work 4. Desire to learn 5. Ability to say :Yes" and "No" 6. Ability to pick friends 7. Turn back on bad advice 8. Recognize inner beauty 9. Persistence 10. Avoid temptation

We generally admire the wisdom of those who come to us for advice.

Some people think they are generous because they give away free advice.