#advice

Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

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Many original occupiers believe the political system has become so corrupt that even participating in it, engaging with it, corrupts the movement. I understand what they are saying. But often, change does come more quickly from the inside rather than the outside. My advice: try both. But don't try violence. ↗

— Jennifer Granholm

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To offer a man unsolicited advice is to presume that he doesn't know what to do or that he can't do it on his own. ↗

— John Gray

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Generally speaking, when a woman offers unsolicited advice or tries to help a man, she has no idea of how critical and unloving he may sound to him. ↗

— John Gray

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My characters surprise me constantly. My characters are like my friends - I can give them advice, but they don't have to take it. If your characters are real, then they surprise you, just like real people. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is don't do it unless you're willing to give your whole life to it. Red wine and garlic also helps. ↗

— Jim Harrison

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It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work. ↗

— David Hockney

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The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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I give opinions, not advice. ↗

— Lou Holtz

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I had neither expert aid nor advice. I studied no courses in writing; until a year or so ago, I never read a book by anybody advising writers how to write. ↗

— Robert E. Howard

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