Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hack Wilson

In life, you need many more things besides talent. Things like good advice and common sense.

On Halloween the thing you must do is pretend that nothing can frighten you. And if something scares you and you want to run just let on like it's Halloween fun

One thing I've been thinking about is taking the social issues out of national politics. For example, if Georgia wanted abortion and Alabama didn't, that's going to be up to the people in Georgia. I can't sway them. Would I give them advice not to? Absolutely. Would I say it's wrong? Yes.

Elias Zerhouni

NIH is doing what it does best -- caring for the sickest of the sick. Our disease specialists and hospital staff are partnering with medical centers around the country to give expert advice and care to hurricane victims with the most challenging medical conditions.

Elias Zerhouni

NIH is doing what it does best -- caring for the sickest of the sick, ... Our disease specialists and hospital staff are partnering with medical centers around the country to give expert advice and care to hurricane victims with the most challenging medical conditions.

On the basis of this advice of counsel, Mr. Duncan has authorized Sullivan & Cromwell to advise the Committee that he will rely on his constitutional right not to testify at the January 24 hearing. Mr. Duncan will testify on Jan. 24 if the Committee votes to grant him immunity.

On the advice of Mr. Henry, I can't really comment right now.

Only write what inspires you to write. If nothing inspires you write, anyhow. Something might come up.

I was greedy, vain, selfish and took bad advice from financial professionals I trusted.

I wouldn't think that used car salesmen have any more of a monopoly on misleading claims than financial advisers, ... My advice is don't believe anybody.

Charles Schumer

But as more and more SARS cases are discovered here at home, it's time for us in New York to get the same expert advice to prevent a full-blown outbreak.

Henry David Thoreau

I have lived some thirty-odd years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.

I have listened to the advice from people who are better than me while I've been here, people like Heather Schreiber. She was my mentor, and pushed me and pressed me with advice and through example.

I have learned that a smile is a better persuader than a fist, in the long run.

I find it hard to believe there's any confusion. This is a process public companies go through. You go to an independent third party and you rely on their advice and counsel in the best interests of shareholders.

Friends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the greatest deference for you; but, though they may ask it, you never find them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own.

Friendship is the only cure for hatred, the only guarantee of peace.

Graeme Smith

I don't think he undermines his effectiveness but I think he puts him under a lot of pressure when it comes to decision making and maybe he doubts his own decisions sometimes because Shane is offering so much advice all the time. It's hard to sift through what is good and what is not good, at times.

Benjamin Franklin

If a Man casually exceeds, let him fast the next Meal, and all may be well again, provided it be not too often done; as if he exceed at Dinner, let him refrain a Supper, &c.

Today, for the first time, medical researchers are getting specific advice from the FDA about how to safely prepare products for exploratory studies.

Benjamin Franklin

To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girl friends.

To create competition, the distributors - namely the banks - must be allowed to compete over fees and service. The current system does not encourage competition. With the banks getting a blanket annual fee for the customer's inventory of fund units, their interest will be to sell as many units in stock mutual funds as possible and to prevent clients from selling them, even when unbiased advice would reach the opposite conclusion.

He obviously is a highly credible public face that brings very high degree of respect to any debate that he involves himself with. We take very seriously his advice and his counsel. The career that he has had fighting for poor and working folks for his entire career has been the focus of almost everything he's been involved with this group to date, and we continue to look for new avenues for him to speak out.

Having the Internet at your fingertips helps you cultivate and maintain social relationships. It becomes very important for maintaining ties and it does open up doors to getting advice when you need it.

He's a great listener who can assess a situation very quickly and come up with some good advice. He's very thoughtful in the advice, because he knows that a little move right now can make a bulls-eye down the road. He's not going to go for just a quick fix.

Go in and physically meet your financial source of advice.

Good advice"" is often a doubtful remedy, but generally not dangerous because it has so littleeffect......

Brian Schneider

He's been there and done that and he knows the game very well. He can help out the bullpen a lot and give them a lot of advice because he's been there and he was very good at what he did.

He's a very good guy, he's a great teammate. He's good in the bullpen with the younger guys and he's free with his advice and he speaks his mind and sometimes it isn't always a kind remark. To be a true teammate, something needs to be said when it needs to be said. He's the type of person who will do that.

Josh had a phenomenal season. He never missed a practice. He came to get extra workouts in. He worked hard and he sought advice from the coaches to improve and he showed up to every meet ready to wrestle for the team.

I think it is wise. Hers is a bad story and when you are in the middle of a bad story, the overriding challenge is to get it out of the press. You can't spin this story. The best PR advice she can get in my view is to keep her mouth shut and decide against trying to upgrade her image.

It appears from a review of the facts there is no way to dress it up that there was faulty legal advice at the origination of this project, ... I don't think this Legislature is prepared to set the example that .Ê.Ê. we will simply change the law to accommodate that advice.

Tom Izzo

He might be only the second kid (after Jason Richardson) I would advise to do that, just because, that way, there'd be no questions unanswered.