
“If you wanna drive a Ferrari one day, stop taking advice from Toyota drivers.”
Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/CVaNFkFsQMW/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
A collection of quotes on the topic of advice, doing, good, goodness.
“If you wanna drive a Ferrari one day, stop taking advice from Toyota drivers.”
Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/CVaNFkFsQMW/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
“Forever in debt to your priceless advice.”
Variant: Hey! Wait! I've got a new complaint! Forever in debt to your priceless advice.
“Advice is one thing that is freely given away, but watch that you only take what is worth having.”
Source: The Richest Man in Babylon
Source: The Diary of a Young Girl
“It's my advice and I do it: I evade all the taxes I can.”
At the program Câmera Aberta at Band on 23 May 1999. O dia que Bolsonaro quis matar FHC, sonegar impostos e declarar guerra civil http://www.gazetadopovo.com.br/politica/republica/o-dia-que-bolsonaro-quis-matar-fhc-sonegar-impostos-e-declarar-guerra-civil-8mtm0u0so6pk88kqnqo0n1l69. Gazeta do Povo (10 October 2017).
“I distrust any advice that contains the words 'ought' or 'should'.”
Source: The Diary of a Young Girl
To Leon Goldensohn (25 June 1946). Quoted in "The Nuremberg Interviews", Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellatel (2004).
Quoted in Johanna Schneller, "Johnny Depp: Girls' Best Friend," http://www.deppimpact.com/mags/transcripts/rollingstone_dec88.html Rolling Stone (December 1988)
Quoted in Jessamy Calkin, "Johnny Depp Esq.," http://www.johnnydeppfan.com/interviews/ukesquire.htm Esquire [U.K. edition] (February 2000)
"Give!" (26 March 1944)
Variant translation: People will always follow a good example; be the one to set a good example, then it won't be long before the others follow.
Tales from the Secret Annex
A Trip with Paul Kassner <!-- Politics of Ecstasy 1999 p. 215 -->
The Politics of Ecstasy (1968)
Context: My advice to myself and to everyone else, particularly young people, is to turn on, tune in and drop out. By drop out, I mean to detach yourself from involvement in secular, external social games. But the dropping out has to occur internally before it can occur externally. I'm not telling kids just to quit school; I'm not telling people to quit their jobs. That is an inevitable development of the process of turning on and tuning in.
“My advice is to get involved and get started.”
From his autobiography http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2000/kilby-autobio.html. The Nobel Prizes 2000, Editor Tore Frängsmyr, Nobel Foundation, Stockholm, 2001
Context: I've reached the age where young people frequently ask for my advice. All I can really say is that electronics is a fascinating field that I continue to find fulfilling. The field is still growing rapidly, and the opportunities that are ahead are at least as great as they were when I graduated from college. My advice is to get involved and get started.
“In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.”
“It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.”
The Portrait of Mr. W. H. (1889), p. 5
Source: Lady Windermere's Fan
Source: I. Asimov
“When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.”
Demander un conseil, c'est presque toujours chercher un complice. — Adélaïde-Édouard le Lièvre, marquis de La Grange et de Fourilles (1796–1876), Pensées (1872) http://books.google.com/books?id=_YcDAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA479&dq=%22Demander+un+conseil,+c'est+presque+toujours+chercher+un+complice%22&hl=en
Misattributed
“Well, when one's lost, I suppose it's good advice to stay where you are until someone finds you.”
“I sometimes give myself excellent advice. Occasionally, I even listen to it.”
Source: Ghost Story
Variant: You see, the quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead.
Source: The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide: Five Complete Novels and One Story
“My only advice is to stay aware, listen carefully, and yell for help if you need it.”
“We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.”
Source: Where There is Light: Insight and Inspiration for Meeting Life's Challenges
“You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.”
Source: Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis
“Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!”
“all the advice you ever gave your partner is for you to hear”
Source: Question Your Thinking, Change The World: Quotations from Byron Katie
“I understand what you're saying, and your comments are valuable, but I'm gonna ignore your advice.”
Source: Fantastic Mr. Fox
“I give myself very good advice, but I very seldom follow it.”
Variant: She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).
Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
“A word to the wise ain't necessary, it's the stupid ones who need advice.”
“If I heeded all the advice I've had over the years, I'd have written 18 books about Rincewind.”
Usenet
History of Hindu-Christian Encounters (1996)
Guardian interview, Saturday 4 July 2009 http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/jul/04/daniel-radcliffe-harry-potter-jk-rowling
"Pop Tarts: Victoria's Scarring Secrets: Teased for Being Too Skinny" http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,314106,00.html, 30 November 2007, Fox News.
Matt LeBlanc, interview in Donna Freydkin (April 1, 2004) "A brush with happiness", USA Today, Gannett Co., Inc., p. 01D.
About
From interview with Rajeev Masand
The Failure of Haile Selassie as Emperor in The Blackman, April, 1937.
Excerpt from Beyond the Pale by Nicholas Mosley.
Quoted in "Simpson's contemporary quotations" - by James Beasley Simpson - Page 2
4 April 2016 https://twitter.com/muftimenk/status/716954516843790336
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Disputed, Newsletters, Ron Paul Political Report
Dan denk ik niet aan al de ellende, maar aan het mooie dat nog overblijft. Hierin ligt voor een groot deel het verschil tussen moeder en mij. Haar raad voor zwaarmoedigheid is: "Denk aan al de ellende in de wereld en wees blij, dat jij die niet beleeft!"
Mijn raad is: "Ga naar buiten, naar de velden, de natuur en de zon, ga naar buiten en probeer het geluk in jezelf te hervinden en in God. Denk aan al het mooie dat er in en om jezelf nog overblijft en wees gelukkig!"
7 March 1944
Variant translations:
:Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
Think of all the beauty that is still left in and around you and be happy!
(1942 - 1944)
1980s and later, Interview in Silver & Gold Report (1980)
Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939), The Art of Family Life
On the job of the U.S. President and the need of good advisers and staff
2017, Final News Conference as President (January 2017)
The Lazio Speeches (1936), as quoted in The Book of Italian Wisdom by Antonio Santi, Citadel Press, (2003) p. 87.
1930s
Source: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 174.
Interview with David Manners, Scarlet Street #26 (1997)
Source: 1980s, Creating the Corporate Future, 1981, p. ix in the Preface: "Creating the Corporate Future: Plan or be Planned For," Wiley, April 27, 1981
Lecture at Harvard University. Quoted in Joseph Sambrook, David W. Russell, Molecular Cloning (2001), Vol. 1, 153.
biographyonline.net http://www.biographyonline.net/scientists/alex-fleming.html
That would not make a bad programme for a British Ministry. It is one from which Her Majesty's advisers do not shrink.
Source: Speech at the Guildhall, London (9 November 1879), cited in William Flavelle Monypenny and George Earle Buckle, The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, Vol. 2 (1929), pp. 1366-7.
as quoted in Discovering Art, – The life time and work of the World’s greatest Artists, MONET; K.E. Sullivan, Brockhamptonpress, London 2004, p. 10
after Monet's death
Quote from Corot's 'Notebooks', ca. 1856, as quoted in Artists on Art – from the 14th – 20th centuries, ed. by Robert Goldwater and Marco Treves; Pantheon Books, 1972, London, p. 241
1850s
https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1925/07/lenin.htm,Letter on Max Eastman's Book, July 1, 1925
“Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.”
29 January 1748
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
““Be yourself” is about the worst advice you can give some people.”
Thomas L. Masson, The Book of Today, (1923), as cited in: Clifton Fadiman (1955) The American treasury, 1455-1955. p. 791.
"A Philologist on Esperanto" in The British Esperantist (May 1932).
Years later, in a 1956 letter (quoted more extensively below) he stated that Esperanto and other constructed languages were "dead, far deader than ancient unused languages, because their authors never invented any Esperanto legends."
"Food Talks: Willem Dafoe, His Italian Family, Broccoli, Carciofi & Panzanella" http://www.foodiamo.com/italian-food-news/food-talks-willem-dafoe/, interview with Foodiamo (January 2018).
Source: United Nations, Human Development Report 1994 http://books.google.com/books?id=pSa5Zrg5TnEC&pg=PA88, (1994), p. 88
“He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person.”
"The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg", ch. I, in The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories and Essays (1900)
“Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.”
The Fox and the Goat.
Source: Little Women (1868), Ch. 41 : Learning To Forget
Context: When women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do. Then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it. If it fails, they generously give her the whole.
Sec. 95
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)
Context: A father would do well, as his son grows up, and is capable of it, to talk familiarly with him; nay, ask his advice, and consult with him about those things wherein he has any knowledge or understanding. By this, the father will gain two things, both of great moment. The sooner you treat him as a man, the sooner he will begin to be one; and if you admit him into serious discourses sometimes with you, you will insensibly raise his mind above the usual amusements of youth, and those trifling occupations which it is commonly wasted in. For it is easy to observe, that many young men continue longer in thought and conversation of school-boys than otherwise they would, because their parents keep them at that distance, and in that low rank, by all their carriage to them.
1860s, Reply to an Emancipation Memorial (1862)
Context: The subject presented in the memorial is one upon which I have thought much for weeks past, and I may even say for months. I am approached with the most opposite opinions and advice, and that by religious men, who are equally certain that they represent the Divine will. I am sure that either the one or the other class is mistaken in that belief, and perhaps in some respects both. I hope it will not be irreverent for me to say that if it is probable that God would reveal his will to others, on a point so connected with my duty, it might be supposed he would reveal it directly to me; for, unless I am more deceived in myself than I often am, it is my earnest desire to know the will of Providence in this matter. And if I can learn what it is I will do it! These are not, however, the days of miracles, and I suppose it will be granted that I am not to expect a direct revelation. I must study the plain physical facts of the case, ascertain what is possible, and learn what appears to be wise and right.
The subject is difficult, and good men do not agree.
“Here's the advice I give everyone about marriage — is she someone you find interesting?”
2018
Context: Here's the advice I give everyone about marriage — is she someone you find interesting? … You will spend more time with this person than anyone else for the rest of your life, and there is nothing more important than always wanting to hear what she has to say about things … Does she make you laugh? And I don’t know if you want kids, but if you do, do you think she will be a good mom? Life is long. These are the things that really matter over the long term.
“Prayer is not a machine. It is not magic. It is not advice offered to God.”
The Efficacy of Prayer (1958)
Context: Prayer is not a machine. It is not magic. It is not advice offered to God. Our act, when we pray, must not, any more than all our other acts, be separated from the continuous act of God Himself, in which alone all finite causes operate. It would be even worse to think of those who get what they pray for as a sort of court favorites, people who have influence with the throne. The refused prayer of Christ in Gethsemane is answer enough to that. And I dare not leave out the hard saying which I once heard from an experienced Christian: “I have seen many striking answers to prayer and more than one that I thought miraculous. But they usually come at the beginning: before conversion, or soon after it. As the Christian life proceeds, they tend to be rarer. The refusals, too, are not only more frequent; they become more unmistakable, more emphatic.” Does God then forsake just those who serve Him best? Well, He who served Him best of all said, near His tortured death, “Why hast thou forsaken me?” When God becomes man, that Man, of all others, is least comforted by God, at His greatest need. There is a mystery here which, even if I had the power, I might not have the courage to explore. Meanwhile, little people like you and me, if our prayers are sometimes granted, beyond all hope and probability, had better not draw hasty conclusions to our own advantage. If we were stronger, we might be less tenderly treated. If we were braver, we might be sent, with far less help, to defend far more desperate posts in the great battle.
“I beg you listen to this advice—
When you can get wine, be sure to drink it.”
Substance, Shadow, and Spirit, "Substance speaks to Shadow" (translation by A. Waley)
In A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems (1919), 'Poems By Tao Ch'ien', p. 106
Context: Heaven and Earth exist for ever:
Mountains and rivers never change.
But herbs and trees in perpetual rotation
Are renovated and withered by the dews and frosts:
And Man the wise, Man the divine—
Shall he alone escape this law?
Fortuitously appearing for a moment in the World
He suddenly departs, never to return.
How can he know that the friends he has left
Are missing him and thinking of him?
Only the things that he used remain;
They look upon them and their tears flow.
Me no magical arts can save,
Though you may hope for a wizard's aid.
I beg you listen to this advice—
When you can get wine, be sure to drink it.
On balancing your passions in “Eva Longoria—She Is Power Woman, Hear Her Roar” https://hauteliving.com/2017/09/haute-living-cover-interview-eva-longoria-2017/642129/ in Haute Living (2017 Sep 8)
Umar ibn al-Khattab, Vol. 2, p. 389-390, also quoted in At-Tabqaat ul-Kabir, Vol. 3, p. 339
Last Advise
“The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.”
Source: The Silver Door
“I give myself sometimes admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.”