Famous Quotes & Sayings

Zhang Yimou

We in urgent need of sound advice from foreigners.

Wherever there are ski resorts there will be daily updates. These will mostly relay information that is relevant to skiers - imminent snowfall, the likelihood of avalanches and so on - but it will also offer advice on any storm fronts that are expected. For anybody planning a trek, this is crucial information.

While we share the same set of values, we can - and do - have different business interests. Dad has been there to give me career advice along the way, but he has always let me call the play.

Jump now is my advice. Get 'em while they're hot.

I might ask him how his game went, but other than that we don't talk much about hockey. I ask him for advice all the time, and he asks me, but after that it's all jokes.

Howard Dean

We get along well. He gave me some good advice. I gave him some advice on domestic policy areas,

We are not providing legal advice. We're not translating what the pledges mean. We're not going to put our opinion on it.

Here's good advice for practice: go into partnership with nature; she does more than half the work and asks none of the fee.

Mark Warner

My success was due to good luck, hard work, and support and advice from friends and mentors. But most importantly, it depended on me to keep trying after I had failed.

William Shakespeare

Bosom upon my counsel; You'll find it wholesome.

The problem is so complicated that no-one can give really good advice,

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

Mark Siegel

The president didn't always listen to the advice of his consultants. But we kept trying, and Giffen kept urging us to keep trying.

The quality of the professors was tremendous. They provided practical advice and insights from real world experiences that you can't find in a textbook. I'm involved in real estate and I learned a lot about investments to pursue and, more importantly, investments to avoid.

We agree that management was consistent with the previous message of a rebound in the consulting business, database growth of around 20 percent, and application growth of 50 percent or better this year. Our advice to investors is to focus on companies which are enabling the transformation to e-business, and Oracle is definitely a leader in this area.

We are committed to providing value to our clients by delivering effective solutions, superior service and sound advice. Simultaneously, we are deeply involved with our communities, reinvesting time, energy and money. These efforts translate into rapid growth and increasing profits in all the markets where we operate.

My mother taught me caring and sensitivity towards the feelings of others, animals as well as humans. She gave me much good, practical advice for getting through life.

I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement speaker. Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake he said. They need you in order to have the party, but no one expects you to say very much.

Barbara Mikulski

I won't stop there, ... I will continue to pursue getting the best advice possible.

I was giving her advice, and she wasn't taking it, so I saw no reason for her to continue paying me or for me to waste my time.

I think people are hurting and we're in a market where there is more 'sell' advice than 'buy' advice. Buying is highly selective and still full of risk.

Alex Winter

I think my first and foremost advice is to have a very realistic understanding of what making movies is; how much work it is, how unglamorous it is, how much tenacity you have to have.

I think I made the wrong decision, taking some advice from the trainers. It just happens sometimes in football.

Derek Smith

We provide information service delivery to those hard to reach areas, conduct workshops whereby rural youths learn how to use PCs, draft CVs and business plans, as well as give them advice on how to start up their own businesses.

We hope the Guide will serve not only as a reference during times of illness but also as a source of ongoing advice that helps everyone maintain good health throughout their lives,

We received the legal opinion and advice of the general counsel of the university, whom we respect and rely on for that advice all the time.

We don't tell the White House who they should consider, but our organization is close to the White House. Historically, we have been a source of strategic advice to the White House in defending it's nominees.

Ray Brown

We finally get an opportunity where it's in our hands. We don't have to count on anyone else.

We have been taking advice from experts and they still think it is on course to finish on time.

Ken Follett

Well, for people who want to write best sellers, the best advice I can give is to say that the novel has to engage the reader emotionally.

David Bradley

Those of you who have tracked this issue closely, most by now have thought that this day would never come. Has anyone performed to a slower, longer, later standard than I in my search for a new Atlantic editor? ... Beginning last April, I began what I called my Hillary Clinton Listening Tour, traveling the country and asking advice on the extreme talent today in journalism.

You know when you walk into a dark room without a light you can't tell what is truly in it, riches or stones. This is much like life, you need to be an illuminating torch and reveal the hidden treasures of the world

Good advice is one of those injuries which a good man ought, if possible, to forgive, but at all events to forget at once