"There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad."
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"Whenever I'm asked what advice I have for young writers, I always say that the first thing is to read, and to read a lot. The second thing is to write. And the third thing, which I think is absolutely vital, is to tell stories and listen closely to the stories you're being told."
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"It's funny - Frankie Valli's story and that advice that he was just getting from, you know, Christopher Walken's character, is very true for someone who's in a creative field."
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"These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new."
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"Interestingly, young people don't come to you for advice. Especially the ones who are related to you."
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"The secret counsels of princes are a troublesome burden to such as have only to execute them."
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"...To be honest, I'd be the last person who should be doling out gardeinng advice. I don't have the patience for growing things. Yes, I realize there's nothing quite as satisfying as eating food that you've pulled up from the ground and that's why, at the height of the planting season, I bury cans of tomato soup in my backyard and dig them up in late spring."
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"Fools need advice most, but wise men only are the better for it."
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"Speakers have been showering us with pearls of wisdom for centuries, and if all of their valuable advice were laid end to end, it would still be just as good as new. Very little of it has ever been used."
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"Never give power of attorney."
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"I considered Nat King Cole to be a friend and, in many ways, a mentor. He always had words of profound advice."
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"Should they whisper false of you, Never trouble to deny; Should the words they say be true, Weep and storm and say they lie."
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"I took William Zinsser's advice that you write to yourself and you hope that there are people out there who are like you."
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"Once you have really done all you can, then you can show it to people. But I find this is increasingly not the case with the younger people. They do a first draft and want somebody to finish it off for them with good advice."
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"What a difficult thing it is to ask someone's advice on a matter without coloring his judgment by the way in which we present our problem."
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"Athos liked every one to exercise his own free-will. He never gave his advice before it was demanded and even then it must be demanded twice. "In general, people only ask for advice," he said "that they may not follow it or if they should follow it that they may have somebody to blame for having given it"."
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"As an advice columnist, I spend a lot of time reading through psychology journals to ensure that I give the most up-to-date advice."
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"It takes courage to say, "I need help" and to be vulnerable and accept advice from people who may be wiser than you are. It takes courage to die to ourselves so we can become fully alive in a love and hope and freedom that only come when we do push our pride away."
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"The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time. Get into a fist fight, put your mind on the strategy of the fight, and you will not feel the other fellow's punches."
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"The value of market esoterica to the consumer of investment advice is a different story. In my opinion, investment success will not be produced by arcane formulae, computer programs or signals flashed by the price behavior of stocks and markets. Rather an investor will succeed by coupling good business judgment with an ability to insulate his thoughts and behavior from the super-contagious emotions that swirl about the marketplace."
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