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“Painting isn't a question of sensibility; it's a matter of seizing the power, taking over from nature, not expecting her to supply you with information and good advice.”

Matter Power Advice Information Painting Expecting Sensibility Good Advice Seizing

Book:The surrealist Picasso

Source: The surrealist Picasso

“No good sensible working bee listens to the advice of a bedbug on the subject of business.”

Advice Subjects Sensible Bees

Book:So Here Then Cometh Pig-pen Pete; Or, Some Chums of Mine

Source: So Here Then Cometh Pig-pen Pete; Or, Some Chums of Mine

“Be niggards of advice on no pretense; For the worst avarice is that of sense.”

Worst Advice Pretense Avarice Niggard

Book:An Essay on Criticism

Source: An Essay on Criticism

“My first advice (on how not to grow old) would be to choose you ancestors carefully.”

Firsts Would Be Age Grows Advice Ancestor Ice Age

Author:Bertrand Russell

“The worst men often give the best advice. Our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts.”

Men Giving Sometimes Worst Advice Deeds Our Thoughts Best Advice

Book:Festus: a poem

Source: Festus: a poem

“I have been told that a young would-be composer wrote to Mozart asking advice about how to compose a symphony. Mozart responded that a symphony was a complex and demanding form and it would be better to start with something simpler. The young man protested, 'But, Herr Mozart, you wrote symphonies when you were younger than I am now.' Mozart replied, 'I never asked how.”

Men Has Beens Would Be Form Young Advice Masters Asking Complexes Young Man Composer Symphony

Author:Isaac Asimov

“I got some very good advice once. That was: You're not talking to a reporter, you're talking to the public. We didn't hide things. They are a little more guarded now.”

Littles Talking Advice Very Good Reporters Not Talking Good Advice Guarded

Author:Marv Levy

“The secret is to follow the advice the masters give you in their works while doing something different from them.”

Giving Different Secret Advice Masters

Book:The private Degas

Source: The private Degas

“Recently a young mother asked for advice. What, she wanted to know, was she to do with a 7-year-old who was obstreperous, outspoken, and inconveniently willful? "Keep her," I replied.... The suffragettes refused to be polite in demanding what they wanted or grateful for getting what they deserved. Works for me.”

Knows Years Children Wanted Young Mother Advice Grateful Polite Outspoken Suffragettes Young Mother

Author:Anna Quindlen

“I am of use to the younger artists through the advice and criticism which I give them.”

Giving Use Artist Advice Criticism

Author:Howard Pyle

“Where intellectuals have played a role in history, it has not been so much by whispering words of advice into the ears of political overlords as by contributing to the vast and powerful currents of conceptions and misconceptions that sweep human action along.”

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Book:A Conflict of Visions: Idealogical Origins of Political Struggles

Source: A Conflict of Visions: Idealogical Origins of Political Struggles

“One day Boudin said to me, 'Learn to draw well and appreciate the sea, the light, the blue sky.' I took his advice.”

Wells Said Light Sea Sky Advice One Day Draws Appreciate Blue Blue Sky

Author:Claude Monet

“I met a young woman the other day, and she said, what advice would you have for a writer, and I said it would be to work every day... Your job is to write. The rest of it will take care of itself. But, generally, it seems ... you know how that is, you meet people and they have a talent for self-promotion. Those are the pushy people. And you know their writing's not going to be any good, because that's not their talent.”

People Knows Writing Said Self Seems Would Be Care Jobs Young Know How Advice Talent Mets Take Care Young Women Promotion Self Promotion Pushy

Author:David Sedaris

“A real friend ... exults in his friends happiness, rejoices in all his joys, and is ready to afford him the best advice.”

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Author:Herodotus

“Don't take the will for the deed; get the deed.”

Advice Ambition Deeds

Author:Lewis Mumford

“We older women who know we aren't heroines can offer our younger sisters, at the very least, an honest report of what we have learned and how we have grown.”

Knows Advice Honest Offers Reports Heroines Older Women Younger Sister

Book:Between Myth and Morning: Women Awakening

Source: Between Myth and Morning: Women Awakening

“Advice to Persons About to Write History - Don't.”

Writing Persons History Advice

Book:Historical Essays and Studies: Great Event

Source: Historical Essays and Studies: Great Event

“If I were to give one piece of advice, I would say to never accept anything that you hear or see at face value. As a general rule of thumb, then the more you question, the better.”

Ifs Giving Faces Values Accepting Pieces Advice Thumbs One Piece Face Value

Author:Ernest Gaines

“Above all avoid taking the advice of men who have no brains and do not know what they are talking about.”

Knows Men Brain Talking Advice

Book:Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout

Source: Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout

“Few influential people involved with the Internet claim that it is a good in and of itself. It is a powerful tool for solving social problems, just as it is a tool for making money, finding lost relatives, receiving medical advice, or, come to that, trading instructions for making bombs.”

“Never open a can of worms unless you plan to go fishing.”

Plans Advice Fishing Worms Cans Of Worms

Author:John C. Maxwell

“There's one piece of advice my dad gave me when he dropped me off at college. He said, "You've got the talent. You can sing and play guitar. That doesn't make you any better than anyone else.".”

Said Play Pieces Advice Talent College Dad Guitar My Dad One Piece

Author:John Denver

“Marriage is too interesting an experiment to be tried only once.”

Interesting Marriage Advice Experiments

Author:Eva Gabor

“Anger begins as an inner twinge. We sense something long before it blossoms (explodes?) into an emotional tirade. If we listen to this twinge -- and follow its advice -- the emotional outburst (or in burst) is not needed.”

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Author:Peter McWilliams

“I let the American people down, and I have to carry that burden for the rest of my life. My political life is over. I will never again have an opportunity to serve in any official position. Maybe I can give a little advice from time to time.”

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Author:Richard M. Nixon

“When I first got an agent, they gave me some advice--lose weight.”

Firsts Loses Advice Weight Agents Lose Weight

Author:Jennifer Aniston

“A fop sometimes gives important advice.”

Giving Important Sometimes Advice Giving Advice

Author:Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

“Abrams's Advice: When eating an elephant, take one bite at a time.”

Advice Eating Bites Elephants Abram

Book:The Official Rules: 5,427 Laws, Principles, and Axioms to Help You Cope with Crises, Deadlines, Bad Luck, Rude Behavior, Red Tape, and Attacks by Inanimate Objects

Source: The Official Rules: 5,427 Laws, Principles, and Axioms to Help You Cope with Crises, Deadlines, Bad Luck, Rude Behavior, Red Tape, and Attacks by Inanimate Objects

“Advice, First Law of: The correct advice to give is the advice that is desired.”

Giving Firsts Law Advice

Author:Paul Dickson

“People make suggestions on what to say all the time... Trust me.”

People Advice Suggestions Trust Me Bushism

Author:George W. Bush

“Hazard not your wealth on a poor man's advice.”

Men Wealth Poor Advice Hazards Poor Man

Author:Juan Manuel, Prince of Villena

“I trust that whoever leads the Conservative Party actually pays regard to my advice on how we should conduct ourselves and I personally will obviously support whoever eventually wins.”

Should Winning Party Pay Support Advice Trust Regard Conservative Conservative Party

Author:Kenneth Clarke

“Don't talk of what you are 'going to do!' Do it!”

Book:William Morris Hunt on painting and drawing

Source: William Morris Hunt on painting and drawing

“In any field, it's a plus if you view criticism as potentially helpful advice rather than as a personal attack.”

Ifs Views Advice Fields Criticism Helpful Plus Personal Attacks

Book:An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth

Source: An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth

“I've been polite and I've always shown up. Somebody asked me if I had any advice for young people entering the business. I said: "Yeah, show up.”

People Ifs Said Shows Success Young Advice Yeah Polite Entering

Author:Tom T. Hall

“Create some psychological space between you and your project by imagining you're doing it for someone else or contemplating what advice you'd give to another person in your predicament.”

Giving Persons Space Advice Projects Psychological Contemplating Space Between Predicaments

Author:Daniel H. Pink

“I asked people who have already finished books for advice, which is akin to asking a mother with a four-year-old what childbirth is like.”

People Years Book Mother Four Advice Asking Finished Four Years Childbirth

Book:Yes Please

Source: Yes Please

“Accept good advice gracefully - as long as it doesn't interfere with what you intended to do in the first place.”

Firsts Long Accepting Grace Advice Interfere Good Advice

Author:Gene Brown

“The worst advice a young writer can get is "Write what you know." Imagination is more important than experience.”

Knows Writing Important Young Imagination Worst Advice Young Writers

Author:Joe Haldeman

“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.”

I Can Advice Ready Flexibility Flexible Umbrella Music Making

Author:Zubin Mehta

“Damon [Stoudamire] gave me advice of things I need to do to get through the whole season. The main thing is taking care of my body. I have to treat my body like a machine. What you put in it is what you'll get out of it.”

Needs Whole Body Care Advice Machines Treats Seasons Damon

Author:Sebastian Telfair

“And believe me, if I were again beginning my studies, I should follow the advice of Plato and start with the mathematical sciences, which proceed very cautiously and admit nothing as established until it has been rigorously demonstrated.”

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Author:Galileo Galilei

“To suggest that the president should be censured because you don't agree with the legal advice he got seems to me to just -- to be out of the ballpark in terms of the way we can sensibly discuss and talk about issues like this.”

Way Should Seems President Term Issues Advice Agree Ballparks

Author:Jon Schmidt

“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.”

Looks Young Asks Advice Ask Me Look Up Mentor Djs Love And Respect Much Love

Author:Tiesto

“Don't apologize, justify or rationalize bad art or bad writing. If you do, you are part of it.”

Ifs Writing Art Advice Justify Apologizing Rationalize Bad Writing

Author:Walter Darby Bannard

“A female artist friend of mine recently told me that she was advised to 'look more slutty.' I asked her boyfriend what the equivalent advice for a man would be. He said to be more muscular. That made me rush to the gym.”

Men Looks Made Said Would Be Artist Advice Mines Female Gender Gym Female Artists

Author:Mark Kostabi

“Thomas Hardy once advised us to record impressions more and to express ideas less. Now and then I would remember this advice.”

Ideas Remember Records Advice Impression Now And Then Hardy

Author:Mu Xin

“If I can give you any advice, it's this: every hour that you spend sat on the couch doing nothing, put it to good use, because when you have kids, an hour is like a lifetime.”

Ifs Giving I Can Use Kids Hours Advice Lifetime Sat Doing Nothing Couches

Author:Noel Gallagher

“There are some men who turn a deaf ear to reason and good advice, and willfully go wrong for fear of being controlled.”

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Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“If I wanted to become a tramp, I would seek information and advice from the most successful tramp I could find. If I wanted to become a failure, I would seek advice from people who have never succeeded. If I wanted to succeed in all things, I would look around me for those who are succeeding, and do as they have done.”

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Author:Norman Vincent Peale