A Quote by Norm MacDonald

In giving advice, aptitude is often less to be considered, than seasonableness.

Norm MacDonald

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Norm MacDonald
Canadian - Actor
Born: October 17, 1963

It gets really tricky giving advice. The older I get, the less advice I give.

Anne Heche

I've never been good at giving advice. The only advice I ever gave people was to find something that you are passionate about. But I hate giving advice, because, who am I? I'm just a girl.

Gwen Stefani

Learning is most often considered. a process of getting rather than giving. This is most evident in conceptions of student/teacher roles: Teachers give and students get. Yet, in adult learning both giving and getting are critical.

David A. Kolb

Before you give advice, that is to say advice which you have not been asked to give, it is well to put to yourself two questions - namely, what is your motive for giving it, and what is it likely to be worth? If these questions were always asked, and honestly answered, there would be less advice given.

John William Mackail

A good man giving bad advice is more dangerous than a nasty man giving bad advice.

Conor Cruise O'Brien

me giving my mom romantic advice is kind of like a goldfish giving a snail advice on how to fly.” -Will Grayson (pg. 66)

David Levithan

Often when someone comes to you and wants to vent, it's so tempting to start giving advice. But if you allow the person just to let the feelings out, and then at another time come back with advice or comments, that person would experience a deeper healing.

Oprah Winfrey

I don't even trust myself in my career much less giving somebody else advice.

Tim McGraw

Man has but little heeded the advice of the wise men. He has been - fatefully, if not willingly - less virtuous, less constant, less rational, less peaceful than he knows how to be, than he is fully capable of being. He has been led astray from the ways of peace and brotherhood by his addiction to concepts and attitudes of narrow nationalism, racial and religious bigotry, greed and lust for power.

Ralph Bunche

No one was ever the better for advice: in general, what we called giving advice was properly taking an occasion to show our own wisdom at another's expense; and to receive advice was little better than tamely to another the occasion of raising himself a character from our defects.

Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

The character of giving advice often makes us accountable for the conduct of those we advise.

Norm MacDonald

Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.

Jean de la Bruyere

This is a hard enough sport when you're giving 100 percent. If you're giving anything less than that, it'll swallow you up.

Adam Vinatieri

I tried being a mechanic and I tried catering, but I realized I had even less aptitude for semi-skilled labour than for academic work.

Toby Young

For all kinds of reasons, it is more difficult to track women's lives. Women's words have simply been considered less important, so they have been preserved less often.

Adele Logan Alexander

I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I've learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.

Taylor Swift

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