Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sophocles

There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.

Tiesto

A lot of DJs who started the same time as me, they are not to be seen anymore. And I get so much love and respect from the young DJs, and some of them look up to me or ask me for advice. I am almost like the mentor.

Thomas Carlyle

Be not a slave of words.

Thomas Carlyle

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

Tony Campolo

I am relatively sure, from conversations that I had with former president Bill Clinton, that George Bush seldom called upon him for advice.

Tom Waits

(When asked for advice for younger musicians) "Break windows, smoke cigars, and stay up late. Tell 'em to do that, they'll find a little pot of gold.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Never saw the branch you are sittin on, unless they are trying to hang you from it.

Simon Cowell

I got good advice once. Someone said to me: 'Live in your money rather than look at it.

Silvio Berlusconi

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

Vilify! Vilify! Some of it will always stick.

Kathleen Winsor

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

Ramakrishna

Live like a mud-fish: its skin is bright and shiny even though it lives in mud.

Taylor Mali

It is not enough these days to simply QUESTION AUTHORITY. You have to speak with it, too.

Stephen Chbosky

If the advice is simply to respect yourself and follow the path that you want to follow, that would be the best advice I could ever pass on.

Roz Savage

My advice is don't keep asking yourself if you can do something. Just get out there and do it. You can really surprise yourself.

Rick Warren

Leadership is neither showmanship nor dictatorship. Leadership is a stewardship and a partnership.

Rick Warren

Taking risks in older age is more courageous because you have more to lose. When you have nothing, you have nothing to lose.

Rick Warren

Every time you make a bad choice, it becomes harder to make a good one.

Rick Warren

What's true or right is NEVER determined by popularity or polls. The right thing is often unpopular since it's harder to do.

Karl Kraus

Ask your neighbor only about things you know better yourself. Then his advice could prove valuable.

Otto Preminger

I do not welcome advice from actors; they are here to act.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

Everyone detected with AIDS should be tattooed in the upper forearm, to protect common needle users, and on the buttock, to prevent the victimization of other homosexuals.

William Faulkner

I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.

Warren G. Bennis

Ineffective leaders often act on the advice and counsel of the last person they talked to.

Said Nursi

If you want an enemy, the soul (nafs) is sufficient. If you want advice, death is sufficient.

Wim Wenders

My advice is, don't spend money on therapy. Spend it in a record store.

Always take an extra quarter to the laundry room.

They aren't kidding when they say, "Wash Whites separately.

Zubin Mehta

Although I am flexible and ready to take advice, I can't carry an umbrella of thoughts over my head that would distract me and affect my music making.

Yul Brynner

Whatever you do, don't smoke.

Samuel Johnson

Advice is offensive, it shows us that we are known to others as well as to ourselves.

Warren Buffett

The advice "you never go broke taking a profit" is foolish.

Warren Buffett

If you own a wonderful business...the best thing to do is keep it. All you're going to do is trade your wonderful business for a whole bunch of cash, which isn't as good as the business, and you got the problem of investing in other businesses, and you probably paid a tax in between. So my advice to anybody who owns a wonderful business is keep it.