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- My most important piece of advice to all you would-be writers: when you write, try to leave out all the parts readers skip.
- Elmore Leonard
- My mom grew up in Spanish Harlem and the Bronx and gave me an invaluable piece of advice for dealing with people in New York - if someone's bugging you just act crazy. I've modified her approach somewhat. Public displays of religiosity work just as well as feigning psychosis.
- Waiter Rant, Waiter Rant, 01-14-10
- It seems that bad advice that's fun will always be better known than than good advice that's dull-no matter how useless that fun advice is.
- Scott Berkun, Confessions of a Public Speaker, 2009
- No-one wants advice only corroboration.
- John Steinbeck (1902 - 1968)
- Be yourself is the worst advice you can give to some people.
- Tom Masson
- The connoisseur of painting gives only bad advice to the painter. For that reason I have given up trying to judge myself.
- Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
- Never give advice...
A wise man won't need it
A fool won't heed it. - Unknown
- The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others.
- Anonymous
- I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
- Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)
- Advice is like snow -- the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)
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