Top 1200 Great Advice Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

My basic advice to the Chinese with respect to the South China Sea is, 'Hey, guys, cool it.'

I know that one is able to win people far more by the spoken that by the written word, and that every great movement on this globe owes its rise to the great speakers and not to the great writers.

Dybala only lacks the belief that he is a great footballer. After his great experience at Palermo he had a great start with Juve and he did beautiful things.

There's an old press-agents' slogan that's good advice: Don't read your publicity - weigh it.

Coming from art school, I had a great sense of style - as did The Beatles and the Stones - and I enjoyed projecting that. Image, attitude, great music and great lyrics - that was the '60s.

It's great extremes which leads to great drama and great comedy.

Carrot Top... I gave him advice once and he ran with it. He should thank me.

If I find great material, or a great character, or a great director that wants to do something on TV, or whether it's in film, or whatever it is, man - as long as it's good, and on the level, I'm open to it.

I must say that "Give Peace a Chance" has always seemed to me to be sensible advice.

Advice to Young Poets Never pretend to be a unicorn by sticking a plunger on your head.

When it comes to giving advice, never do so unless you've first received a request in writing, signed by a lawyer.

I think you must remember that a writer is a simple-minded person to begin with and go on that basis. He's not a great mind, he's not a great thinker, he's not a great philosopher, he's a story-teller.

My advice would be to go with the "love who you are, embrace yourself" vibe that's happening right now.

I enjoyed every bit of my swimming career. I think that's the most important advice - to enjoy what you do

Beckett was the most thorough of playwrights. He tells you what to do and if you've any humility at all, you'll take his advice.

I had a great job and I lost it, but I'm doing great now, I have a great family, my daughters all live with me. Did I have a setback? Absolutely, but I don't look at it like a ruined my life.

My advice to moms that have to go to work is to just be easy on yourself and know that you're doing the best you can.

Unruly ambition is deaf, not only to the advice of friends, but to the counsels and monitions of reason itself.

My advice is flip a coin. If you regret the way it landed, then go with your gut.

I always say that, if you have great actors and great storytelling and great monsters, and you mix them together, nine times out of 10, it explodes in your face.

Be a vegetarian. That was the best advice I ever took. It means I'm not involved in killing, that's the main thing.

President Obama's decision to bypass the constitutional advice and consent of the Senate is not an isolated incident.

I love my wife. We've had a few slings and arrows across the room, but I'm not prepared to give in, you know? People say she saved my life, but at the same time, I saved her life, as well, I think. She's a great mother, she's a great wife, she's a great worker, she's a great manager. She's just great.

Great people have great egos; maybe that's what makes them great.

I have a suspicion, because if you look at the whole, all the [Star Wars ] movies, the backlog of every one of these movies, there's a lot of great stuff, but one might not be not as good with the writing in this or the acting in that or the directing in that, this has great actors, great directors, great script, and I really feel like we're gonna make the best one [movie with Young Han Solo].

Great crises produce great men, and great deeds of courage.

The most popular form of altruism is giving to others the advice you cannot use yourself.

I've never bought this idea of taking a therapeutic distance. If I see a student or house staff cry, I take great faith in that. That's a great person; they're going to be a great doctor.

And the people listened, and their faces were quiet with listening. The story tellers, gathering attention into their tales, spoke in great rhythms, spoke in great words because the tales were great, and the listeners became great through them.

Berlusconi's advice to Italians trying to escape poverty: "Do it my way and earn more money".

Phil Neville could be on the road to one day, maybe, becoming the England manager. I know him closely. He was a great captain, a great leader. He's had great experience.

That's Tommy, this great producer who comes in contact with people and must have a mental library of personnel who are great for this and great for that, and he brought this whole group of musicians to the project that I'd never worked with before.

The best advice I've been given is kind of the "dance with the one who brought you" thing. You got here on what you do so don't change that.

Down to earth advice about the path that leads away from the kingdom of the hollow men.

Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain? The ability to suffer is a small matter: in that line, weak women and even slaves often attain masterliness. But not to perish from internal distress and doubt when one inflicts great suffering and hears the cry of it that is great, that belongs to greatness.

A Protestant, if he wants aid or advice on any matter, can only go to his solicitor.

Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.

What exists outside is a man's concern; let no woman give advice; and do no mischief within doors.

There is a lot of advice on baby feeding, but almost nothing on how to help crying babies.

Advice is like castor oil — easy enough to give but dreadful hard to take.

One bit of advice I can give people is to remember that anything worthwhile takes a long time.

When patients reject official advice and proved medicine, they become more susceptible to quackery.

If the advice of a fool for once happens to be good, it requires a wise man to carry it out.

Time is truly the great enemy. It's not the great healer, it's the great stealer.

Wales was great. The people were great, and I had a great time there.

I obviously would love to play with a great, great, great quarterback.

It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.

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

My job is to give the president and secretary of defense military advice before they know they need it.

My height doesn't define my skill set. To be a great quarterback, you have to have great leadership, great attention to detail and a relentless competitive nature - and I try to bring that on a daily basis.

Extremely foolish advice is likely to be uttered by those who are looking at the laboring vessel from the land.

It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.

By the way, that's my number one piece of advice if you're going to join a startup: pick a rocket ship.

Who would condescend to strike down the mere things that he does not fear? Who would debase himself to be merely brave, like any common prizefighter? Who would stoop to be fearless--like a tree? Fight the thing that you fear. You remember the old tale of the English clergyman who gave the last rites to the brigand of Sicily, and how on his death-bed the great robber said, 'I can give you no money, but I can give you advice for a lifetime: your thumb on the blade, and strike upwards.' So I say to you, strike upwards, if you strike at the stars.

I have one piece of advice for those of you who want to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award: Start early!

We have the great fans in Detroit. We've got a great ballpark, great stadium.

Science has great skills, great reasoning and great intelligence in combining effects. It knows HOW to do many things but it admittedly does not know the WHY of anything.

You know, I think there's a good rule of thumb here: Don't take nutritional advice from other species.

The three elements of creativity are thus: loving, knowing, and doing - or heart, mind, and hands - or, as Zen Buddhist teaching has it; great faith, great question, and great courage.

My advice to aspiring performers is trust your instincts, 9 times out of 10 they are perfect.