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Advice Quotes

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“Never give advice unless you have walked the walk, because anybody can talk the talk.”
Valencia Mackie

Shannon L. Alder
“If you have to convince someone to stay with you then they have already left.”
Shannon L. Alder

C. JoyBell C.
“If you swim effortlessly in the deep oceans, ride the waves to and from the shore, if you can breathe under water and dine on the deep treasures of the seas; mark my words, those who dwell on the rocks carrying nets will try to reel you into their catch. The last thing they want is for you to thrive in your habitat because they stand in their atmosphere where they beg and gasp for some air.”
C. JoyBell C.

C. JoyBell C.
“If you walk on sunlight, bathe in moonlight, breathe in a golden air and exhale a Midas' touch; mark my words, those who exist in the shadows will try to pull you into the darkness with them. The last thing that they want is for you to see the wonder of your life because they can't see theirs.”
C. JoyBell C.

Sophie Kinsella
“Rule of life. If you bother to ask someone’s advice, then bother to listen to it.”
Sophie Kinsella, Confessions of a Shopaholic

Robert Jordan
“Advice!Nobody tells us how to be men. We just are." "That is probably why you make such a bad job of it.- Perrin and Egwene”
Robert Jordan, The Eye of the World

“Love someone because their soul inspires you, not because you’re interested in the relief from loneliness and companionship they can provide. Anybody can do that. Not just anybody can show you to yourself.”
Brianna Wiest

J.R.R. Tolkien
“Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.”
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“And everyone is always saying that marriage is really hard and takes a lot of work. But the thing is, when you know that you love someone, those things don’t matter. You have to push all the everyday things and the outside world away, and just enjoy knowing that this is the man who has the chest your head is meant to lie on.”
Erin McCarthy, Hot Finish

Erma Bombeck
“Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.”
Erma Bombeck

Ricky Gervais
“The best advice I've ever received is, 'No one else knows what they're doing either.”
Ricky Gervais

Jhumpa Lahiri
“Pack a pillow and blanket and see as much of the world as you can.You will not regret it.”
Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

George S. Clason
“Advice is one thing that is freely given away, but watch that you only take what is worth having.”
George Clason, The Richest Man in Babylon

George R.R. Martin
“Allow me to give my lord one last piece of counsel," the old man had said, "the same counsel I once gave my brother when we parted for the last time. He was three-and-thirty when the Great Council chose him to mount the Iron Throne. A man grown with sons of his own, yet in some ways still a boy. Egg had an innocence to him, a sweetness we all loved. Kill the boy within you, I told him the day I took ship for the Wall. It takes a man to rule. An Aegon, not an Egg. Kill the boy and let the man be born." The old man felt Jon's face. "You are half the age that Egg was, and your own burden is crueler one, I fear. You will have little joy of your command, but I think you have the strength in you to do the things that must be done. Kill the boy, Jon Snow. Winter is almost upon us. Kill the boy and let the man be born.”
George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

Sherrilyn Kenyon
“His mom always said that trust was something you earned. And it wasn't something you gave easy. Too often, it was a tool your enemies used to hurt you with. 'Give them nothing, baby. Not until you have no choice. The world is harsh and it is cold. People can be good and decent, but most of them are only out for themselves and they'll hurt anyone they can'.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon, Infinity

Michael Bassey Johnson
“A person is wise if he listens to millions of advice and doesn't implement any of it.”
Michael Bassey Johnson

Madeline Miller
“There is no honour in betraying your friends.”
Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“Most bullies are the product of a stressful and often abusive home life. Next time a bully threatens or attacks you, just yell, 'Don't abuse me like your parents abuse you!' Then call children's services and tell them you saw this bully crying in the bathroom and you're worried about him. Bam! He just got moved to a foster home.”
Eugene Mirman

Martin Luther King Jr.
“Find a voice in a whisper.”
Martin Luther King Jr., Why We Can't Wait

Lev Grossman
“...In books there's always somebody standing by ready to say hey, the world's in danger, evil's on the rise, but if you're really quick and take this ring and put it in that volcano over there everything will be fine.

"But in real life that guy never turns up. He's never there. He's busy handing out advice in the next universe over. In our world no one ever knows what to do, and everyone's just as clueless and full of crap as everyone else, and you have to figure it all out by yourself. And even after you've figured it out and done it, you'll never know whether you were right or wrong. You'll never know if you put the ring in the right volcano, or if things might have gone better if you hadn't. There's no answers in the back of the book.”
Lev Grossman, The Magician's Land

Bertrand Russell
“To all the talented young men who wander about feeling that there is nothing in the world for them to do, I should say: 'Give up trying to write, and, instead, try not to write. Go out into the world; become a pirate, a king in Borneo, a labourer in Soviet Russia; give yourself an existence in which the satisfaction of elementary physical needs will occupy almost all your energies.' I do not recommend this course of action to everyone, but only to those who suffer from the disease which Mr Krutch diagnoses. I believe that, after some years of such an existence, the ex-intellectual will fin that in spite of is efforts he can no longer refrain from writing, and when this time comes his writing will not seem to him futile.”
Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

James M. Cain
“You have to wait for your mind to catch up with whatever it is it’s working on; then you can write a novel.”
James M. Cain

Mark Twain
“One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke.”
Mark Twain

David Levithan
“I'm told there's no going back. So I'm choosing forward.”
David Levithan, Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

Morris Gleitzman
“Don't sit back and wait for God to do it all. Ask for His advice, but be prepared to do the hard yards yourself.”
Morris Gleitzman, Grace

Mary Wortley Montagu
“I give myself sometimes admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.”
Mary Wortley Montagu

William Shakespeare
“Well, every one can master a grief but he that has it.”
William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

Charles   Dowding
“No dig saves time and keeps it simple, so that you can continue cropping all year without using synthetic feeds or poisons.”
Charles Dowding, Charles Dowding's Skills for Growing

Twyla Tharp
“When I walk into [the studio] I am alone, but I am alone with my body, ambition, ideas, passions, needs, memories, goals, prejudices, distractions, fears.

These ten items are at the heart of who I am. Whatever I am going to create will be a reflection of how these have shaped my life, and how I've learned to channel my experiences into them.

The last two -- distractions and fears -- are the dangerous ones. They're the habitual demons that invade the launch of any project. No one starts a creative endeavor without a certain amount of fear; the key is to learn how to keep free-floating fears from paralyzing you before you've begun. When I feel that sense of dread, I try to make it as specific as possible. Let me tell you my five big fears:

1. People will laugh at me.
2. Someone has done it before.
3. I have nothing to say.
4. I will upset someone I love.
5. Once executed, the idea will never be as good as it is in my mind.

"There are mighty demons, but they're hardly unique to me. You probably share some. If I let them, they'll shut down my impulses ('No, you can't do that') and perhaps turn off the spigots of creativity altogether. So I combat my fears with a staring-down ritual, like a boxer looking his opponent right in the eye before a bout.

1. People will laugh at me? Not the people I respect; they haven't yet, and they're not going to start now....

2. Someone has done it before? Honey, it's all been done before. Nothing's original. Not Homer or Shakespeare and certainly not you. Get over yourself.

3. I have nothing to say? An irrelevant fear. We all have something to say.
4. I will upset someone I love? A serious worry that is not easily exorcised or stared down because you never know how loved ones will respond to your creation. The best you can do is remind yourself that you're a good person with good intentions. You're trying to create unity, not discord.

5. Once executed, the idea will never be as good as it is in my mind? Toughen up. Leon Battista Alberti, the 15th century architectural theorist, said, 'Errors accumulate in the sketch and compound in the model.' But better an imperfect dome in Florence than cathedrals in the clouds.”
Twyla Tharp, The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life

Gillian Flynn
“Compromise, communicate, and never go to bed angry - the three pieces of advice gifted and regifted to all newlyweds.”
Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl