Quotes about advice
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“Whenever (a Christian) sins, he must, for the time being, cease to be holy. This is self-evident. Whenever he sins, he must be condemned; he must incur the penalty of the law of God ... If it be said that the precept is still binding upon him, but that with respect to the Christian, the penalty is forever set aside, or abrogated, I reply, that to abrogate the penalty is to repeal the precept, for a precept without penalty is no law. It is only counsel or advice. The Christian, therefore, is justified no longer than he obeys, and must be condemned when he disobeys or Antinomianism is true ... In these respects, then, the sinning Christian and the unconverted sinner are upon precisely the same ground.”

Charles Grandison Finney (1792–1875) American writer

"Does a Christian cease to be a Christian, whenever he commits a sin?" p. 65
Lectures on Systematic Theology (1878)

God, Law, Penalty, Time

“The advice to any young poet is to embrace your freedom and not feel constrained to write in one particular way or only about one particular topic. If they’re Latino poets, I would encourage them not only to read widely, but also to read Latino poetry, to familiarize themselves with their particular tradition within American literature…”

Francisco Aragón (1968) poet

On his advice to Latino poets in “Interview with Francisco Aragón: Latino Poetry From All Its Perspectives” https://www.sampsoniaway.org/literary-voices/2010/09/16/interview-with-francisco-aragon-latino-poetry-from-all-its-perspectives/ in Sampsonia Way (2010 Sept 16)

Way, Feeling, Literature, Freedom

“I am told that there are still left over 18,000 Hindus and Sikhs in Rawalpindi and 30,000 in the Wah Camp. I will repeat my advice that they should all be prepared to die rather than leave their homes. The art of dying bravely and with honour does not need any special training, save a living faith in God. Then there will be no abductions and no forcible conversions. I know that you are anxious I should go to the Punjab at the earliest moment. I want to do so. But if I failed in Delhi, it is impossible for me to succeed in Pakistan. For I want to go to all the parts and provinces of Pakistan under the protection of no escort save God. I will go as a friend of the Muslims as of others. My life will be at their disposal. I hope that I may cheerfully die at the hands of anyone who chooses to take my life. Then I will have done as I have advised all to do.”

Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948) pre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism during British-ruled India

SELECTED WRITINGS OF MAHATMA GANDHI https://web.archive.org/web/20180216130212/https://www.mkgandhi.org/swmgandhi/chap07.htm, Extracts from the Delhi Diary, 23 September 1947. 1940s

Life, God, Faith, Hope

“I was too shy to ask him for advice so I watched him carefully and tried to dissect everything he did. Then I would try to emulate his strengths.”

Paul Scholes (1974) English footballer

http://forzaitalianfootball.com/2014/07/juventus-star-pogba-i-became-a-better-player-from-watching-scholes-at-manchester-united/
Paul Pogba

“Men and women will never understand each other; my advice is to just stop trying. Just forget it. I know I will never understand women. I will never understand how you can take boiling hot wax, pour it onto your upper thigh, rip the hair out by the root…and still be afraid of a spider.”

Jerry Seinfeld (1954) American comedian and actor

I'm Telling You for the Last Time (1998)

Women, Men, Understanding, Forgetting

“my advice to all young people who wish to become poets is: do something easy, like learning how to blow up the world”

E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet

unless you're not only willing, but glad, to feel and work and fight till you die.
Does this sound dismal? It isn't.
It's the most wonderful life on earth.
Or so I feel.
E. E. Cummings
A Poet's Advice (1958)

People, World, Learning

“Throughout the social sciences today, the dominant form of modeling is based upon the rational-choice paradigm. Game theory, in particular, is typically based upon the assumption of rational choice. In my view, the reason for the dominance of the rational-choice approach is not that scholars think it is realistic. Nor is game theory used solely because it offers good advice to a decision maker, because its unrealistic assumptions undermine much of its value as a basis for advice.”

Robert Axelrod book The Complexity of Cooperation

Introduction
The Complexity of Cooperation (1997)

Game, Thinking, Decision, Science

“The advice takes the form of four simple suggestions for how to do well in a durable iterated Prisoner's Dilemma:1. Don't be envious.
2. Don't be the first to defect.
3. Reciprocate both cooperation and defection.
4. Don't be too clever.”

Robert Axelrod The evolution of cooperation

Chap. 6 : How to Choose Effectively
The Evolution of Cooperation (1984; 2006)

“If you only take one piece of advice from this OK, please sincerely – don’t be an asshole your whole life.”

Steven Crowder (1987) American actor

Life, Sincerity

“When 1% of the population owns more wealth than the bottom 90%, the last people you should be asking for economic advice are the people who created that situation.”

Marianne Williamson (1952) American writer

Twitter https://twitter.com/marwilliamson (26 Nov 2019) Williamson's quotes in social media

People, Wealth

“We may not stop until we have done our part to fashion a world in which there shall be some share of fellowship; which shall be better than a den of thieves. Let us not disguise the difficulties; and, above all, let us not content ourselves with nobel aspirations, counsels of perfection, and self-righteous advice to others. We shall need the wisdom of the serpent; we shall have to be content with short steps; we shall be obliged to give and take; we shall face the strongest passions of mankind — our own not the least; and in the end we shall have fabricated an imperfect instrument. But we shall not wholly have failed; we shall have gone forward, if we bring to our task a pure and chastened spirit, patience, understanding, sympathy, forbearance, generosity, fortitude, and, above all, an inflexible determination. The history of man has just begun; in the aeons which lie before him lie limitless hope or limitless despair. The choice is his; the present choice is ours. It is worth the trial.”

Learned Hand (1872–1961) American legal scholar, Court of Appeals judge

"A Pledge of Allegiance" - speech for "I Am an American Day" Central Park, New York, New York. (20 May 1945) Hand credited H. G. Wells with inspiring some of the ideas expressed in this speech.
Extra-judicial writings

Wisdom, Lie, World, Hope

“After coming home, I listened to the radio and cleaned up a little. A woman on All Things Considered wrote a book of advice called If You Want to Write and mentioned the importance of keeping a diary. It was valuable, she said, because after a while you'd stop being forced and pretentious and become honest and unafraid of your thoughts.”

David Sedaris (1956) American author

01.07.1983 - p.94
Theft by Finding: Diaries, Volume 1 (1977-2002) (2017)

Books, Home

“Problems arise from shackles imposed by ourselves.
Our minds are entangled by trifles.
Take my advice to shake off all the worries and focus on finding yourself a way out,
bide your time and every cloud has a silver lining.”

Deng Feng-Zhou (1949) Chinese poet, Local history writer, Taoist Neidan academics and Environmentalist.

(zh-TW) 枷鎖纏身困擾滋，紅塵瑣事縛如絲。
勸君滌慮尋方向，可待雲開日照時。

"Struggling" (奮發)

Source: Deng Feng-Zhou, "Deng Feng-Zhou Classical Chinese Poetry Anthology". Volume 6, Tainan, 2018: 82.

Way, Problem, Time

“Seriously though, some of the feminist advice given to women is borderline psychopathic. You know, like, “Never take ‘no’ for an answer! Always take what you want!””

Natalie Wynn ContraPoints

This is like rapist advice. ContraPoints, Feminism Did Not Destroy Atheism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klfH9QaEcqY (2016), Pop Feminism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3glomsCM5mU (2016)

Women

“It's in your nature to accept advice readily
so don't fail in reaping benefit through me,
This collection of our thought is open to all:
so, read it and satisfy yourself completely.”

Abdul-Qādir Bedil (1644–1720) Persian writer,poet

Rubaʿiyat (Quatrains), Stanza
Source: Bedil: Selected Poems, p. 53

Nature, Reading

“The best advice about getting older? Just be thankful you’re not dead!”

Chadwick Boseman (1976–2020) American actor

Source: GQ Roundtable (2014)
Ref: en.wikiquote.org - Chadwick Boseman / Quotes / GQ Roundtable (2014)

Dead

“The faith commended to their faithful by all religions, and considered by them as a virtue essential for him who hopes for eternal salvation, is nowise approved in the Secret Teachings. Based on the advice given by the Buddha to His disciples, the primary recommendation that the Masters give to neophytes is: Doubt! Doubt is an incitement to research, and research is the Way which leads to Knowledge.”

Alexandra David-Néel (1868–1969) French explorer, spiritualist, Buddhist, anarchist and writer

Source: The Secret Oral Teachings in the Tibetan Buddhist Sects (1964)

Secret, Faith, Religion, Hope

“It is impossible to pursue a successful literary career and follow the advice of all one's 'best friends.”

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850–1919) American author and poet

I feel compelled to follow the light which my own intellect & judgement cast upon my way, rather than any one of the many conflicting rays which other minds would lend me.
from Preface to Poems of Passion 1883 edition

Success

“If pastors and theologians are asked to reflect and follow the direction indicated by the Holy Father, they are certainly not obliged to think that the proposed approach, with the preambles supporting it, are exempt from danger, nor that the advice given is appropriate. They are even fully justified in drawing the attention of the Holy See of the bishops to the serious ambiguities of the underlying doctrine and on the dangers of the proposed pastoral care.”

Louis-Marie de Blignières (1949) French traditionalist Catholic priest

Extensive Article on the problems of Amoris Laetitia -- English translation of the French original https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2016/09/extensive-article-on-problems-of-amoris.html

Support, Thinking, Drawing

“I would suggest that his next opponents don't look to me for advice”

Roger Federer (1981) Swiss tennis player

Andre Agassi after being beaten in QF of Australian Open 2005 http://www.asapsports.com/show_interview.php?id=23883

“A man provides leadership.
A man provides direction, caution, and advice to others.
A man provides emotional and spiritual support.
A man provides stability and order.
A man provides companionship and good company.
A man provides identity.
A man provides an example.
All of these things require personal sacrifices of time, dedication, and effort. And from where does the strength and inspiration for that come? Or, in other words, what is worth living for, sacrificing for, and even dying for?”

William G. Boykin (1948) Recipient of the Purple Heart medal

Source: Man to Man: Rediscovering Masculinity in a Challenging World (2020), p. 5

Support, Effort, Time, Personality

“The size of our hips, our style, our swag, it becomes co-opted but then we are demonised... My advice to young women is that you have to start by getting those demons out of your head. The questions I ask myself — "am I good enough?"”

Michelle Obama (1964) lawyer, writer, wife of Barack Obama and former First Lady of the United States

that haunts us, because the messages that are sent from the time we are little is: maybe you are not, don't reach too high, don't talk too loud. Interview with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (3 December 2018) https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-46434147 2010s

Women, Question

“I don't turn to greeting cards for wisdom and advice, but they are a fine reflection of the general drift of the culture.”

Susan Orlean (1955) American journalist

Wisdom

“To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.”

Wilson Mizner (1876–1933) American writer

Wisdom

“I warmly second the advice of the wisest of men—"Don't be ambitious; don't be at all too desirous to success; be loyal and modest."”

Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher

Cut down the proud towering thoughts that you get into you, or see they be pure as well as high. There is a nobler ambition than the gaining of all California would be, or the getting of all the suffrages that are on the planet just now.
1860s, On The Choice Of Books (1866)

Men, Success

“You have heard the queen's advice. My gift is below. Would you wait to see it until you have decided what you will do with hers?”

Megan Whalen Turner book A Conspiracy of Kings

Eugenides to Sophos
A Conspiracy of Kings (2010)

Waiting

“I have known many people to ask for advice but very few who wanted it and none who followed it.”

John Steinbeck book The Short Reign of Pippin IV

The Short Reign of Pippin IV (1957)

People

“I don’t have any particular work. I pray for the Jesuits, relatives and friends. Every morning I give communion to the senior and sick fathers in the infirmary. Sometimes Jesuit fathers and brothers come to me for spiritual advice. I try my best to help them.”

Linus Nirmal Gomes (1921–2021) Roman Catholic Bishop

Centenarian Jesuit bishop inspires generations with his profound faith https://www.ucanews.com/news/centenarian-jesuit-bishop-inspires-generations-with-his-profound-faith/89539# (September 16, 2020)

Help

“Your first question must always be: what is the most difficult part of this problem that I am trying to solve and then try and solve that. If you can't solve the most difficult bit, give up! Seek advice, find somebody who can solve it!”

Joe Armstrong (1950–2019) British computer scientist

The Forgotten Ideas in Computer Science

Question, Problem, Parting

“Asking for advice on important matter, simply means that you don't want to do it in the first place.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“The advice of our parents will vary according to the country we are currently living in and the dominant political ideologies (politideos) of that environment.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Parent, Country

“People think they follow advice but they don't. Humans are only capable of receiving information. They create their own advice. If you seek to influence someone, don't waste time giving advice. You can change only what people know, not what they do.”

Scott Adams book God's Debris

Source: Books, God's Debris (2001)

People, Thinking, Change, Time

“We’re going to start mid-September, but we’re considering the advice you’ve given that we should start earlier”

Joe Biden (1942) 47th Vice President of the United States (in office from 2009 to 2017)

2021, August 2021 Source: Biden Weighs Speeding Up Booster-Shot Timeline by 3 Months https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-27/biden-says-u-s-considering-starting-booster-shots-earlier-ksujzrim (August 27, 2021)

“People don't know what's good for them; they only know what they want. I learned to keep my expectations low a long time ago. It's good advice for anyone.”

Arthur C. Clarke book Richter 10

Source: 1990s, Richter 10 (1996), Chapter 12, “Continental Drift” (p. 227)

People, Learning, Time

“Avoid taking advice from someone who gives advice for a living, unless there is a penalty for their advice.”

Nassim Nicholas Taleb book Skin in the Game

Source: Skin in the Game (2018), p. 23

Penalty

“Do what you want to within reason
but remember, take your time:
nothing stops for those
who can't afford to wait.
The best advice that I can give you
is to hold on to your head
and as long as you are good and kind
you'll always be a friend of mine.
And it's true to say that a good friend is hard to find
But I'd like to think that you are
a friend of mine.”

Gilbert O'Sullivan (1946) Irish singer-songwriter

"A Friend of Mine" (song) Song lyrics Source: Gilbert O'Sullivan, "A Friend of Mine" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYaGJ3f28OI (song on YouTube)

Thinking, Time, Waiting

“My advice to women all the time is: If you want a certain future, go out and create it. Conquer your fears as that is what enslaves most women. Opportunities are now galore. We just need to roll up our sleeves, lift our feet, and walk through the door as no one will carry us.”

Divine Ndhlukula (1960) Zimbabwean businesswoman and farmer

Source: Lioness of Africa, 19 October 2017https://www.lionessesofafrica.com/blog/2017/10/19/quote-of-the-day-by-divine-ndhlukula

Women, Fear, Time, Future

“I would say in compound sense of what little I know is it’s definitely darker in tone, and in terms of advice for taking kids of a certain age, it’s going to be prohibitive for certain people of a certain age because it is scary.”

Benedict Cumberbatch (1976) English actor and film producer

"Benedict Cumberbatch: ‘Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is genuinely scary’" in Esquire Middle East https://www.esquireme.com/culture/interviews/benedict-cumberbatch-doctor-strange-in-the-multiverse-of-madness-is-genuinely-scary

People, Age, Sense

“Advice can never take the place of experience. That which advice can sometimes do is to make experience more fruitful of good; to help us the better to understand the lessons of life; and when those lessons are sharp and unwelcome, to bear them with an even and unruffled mind.”

Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow (1887–1952) British politician, agriculturalist and colonial administrator (1887-1952)

12 September 1936, Advice to the pupils of the Bishop Cotton School, Simla, also quoted in Speeches and Statements of the Marquess of Linlithgow, p. 19

Life, Understanding, Help

“If you persist in your ignorance, refuse to listen to advice, feel that you are always right, don't learn from the mistakes of others, feel great and arrogant, then it's only a matter of time before life kicks your ass and teaches you a lesson.”

Titon Rahmawan

Life, Feeling, Learning, Time

“A good quote, like good advice. But it means nothing until it can influence and change people.”

Titon Rahmawan

#quote #advice #influence

People, Quotes, Change

“Never ask for advice from someone with whom you have interests in common. At best, they will point you down the most difficult path to take, at worst… the wrong one.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Non chiedere mai consiglio a qualcuno con il quale hai interessi in comune. Nella migliore delle ipotesi, ti indicherà la strada più difficile da percorrere, nella peggiore... quella sbagliata.
Source: prevale.net

“Following the wise advices of a parent is an act of awareness that transforms his experience into a compass for own present.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Seguire i saggi consigli di un genitore è un atto di consapevolezza che trasforma la sua esperienza in una bussola per il proprio presente.
Source: prevale.net

Parent

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Quotes about advice
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