Famous Quotes & Sayings

The advice they give you in the field is, if you're an artist get established as an artist first and then once you are established they are more apt to look at your work. Never team up with a writer; they like to team up the artist with a manuscript.

The advice that they've given me has definitely given me an advantage.

Janet Weiss

The advice I like to give to drummers is that there's no right or wrong way of playing the drums. I think the drumming community can be very antiquated and very stuck in the past of, like, this Neil Peart style, technical Guitar Center drum video kind of approach. That you need to have played for 15 years before you ever do anything worthwhile.

Eddie Jones

The advice from the medical staff is to give Jeremy the opportunity to rest his injury and unfortunately that means missing out on the tour.

The amount of advice, and portfolio monitoring and portfolio structuring is going to be a very hot topic over the next six months, ... and it's going to be very difficult to compete with a beat-up car when the guy next door has a nice shiny one.

The art of advice is to make the recipient believe he thought the thought of it himself.

The 18 NATO allies -- members of the integrated military structure -- agreed today to task military planners to begin their work and advice on preventive deployment of AWACS airplanes, NATO support for deployment of theater missile defenses of Turkey, and support for allied chemical and biological defense capabilities,

Mark Warner

My success was due to good luck, hard work, and support and advice from friends and mentors. But most importantly, it depended on me to keep trying after I had failed.

William Shakespeare

Bosom upon my counsel; You'll find it wholesome.

The problem is so complicated that no-one can give really good advice,

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

Mark Siegel

The president didn't always listen to the advice of his consultants. But we kept trying, and Giffen kept urging us to keep trying.

The quality of the professors was tremendous. They provided practical advice and insights from real world experiences that you can't find in a textbook. I'm involved in real estate and I learned a lot about investments to pursue and, more importantly, investments to avoid.

We agree that management was consistent with the previous message of a rebound in the consulting business, database growth of around 20 percent, and application growth of 50 percent or better this year. Our advice to investors is to focus on companies which are enabling the transformation to e-business, and Oracle is definitely a leader in this area.

We are committed to providing value to our clients by delivering effective solutions, superior service and sound advice. Simultaneously, we are deeply involved with our communities, reinvesting time, energy and money. These efforts translate into rapid growth and increasing profits in all the markets where we operate.

Ken Follett

Well, for people who want to write best sellers, the best advice I can give is to say that the novel has to engage the reader emotionally.

David Bradley

Those of you who have tracked this issue closely, most by now have thought that this day would never come. Has anyone performed to a slower, longer, later standard than I in my search for a new Atlantic editor? ... Beginning last April, I began what I called my Hillary Clinton Listening Tour, traveling the country and asking advice on the extreme talent today in journalism.

Wherever there are ski resorts there will be daily updates. These will mostly relay information that is relevant to skiers - imminent snowfall, the likelihood of avalanches and so on - but it will also offer advice on any storm fronts that are expected. For anybody planning a trek, this is crucial information.

While we share the same set of values, we can - and do - have different business interests. Dad has been there to give me career advice along the way, but he has always let me call the play.

When it comes to the weather, as bad as you've seen it, it can always get worse.

Derek Smith

We provide information service delivery to those hard to reach areas, conduct workshops whereby rural youths learn how to use PCs, draft CVs and business plans, as well as give them advice on how to start up their own businesses.

We hope the Guide will serve not only as a reference during times of illness but also as a source of ongoing advice that helps everyone maintain good health throughout their lives,

Eliot Spitzer

Restitution I have almost always believed is best handled through individual arbitration or litigation where individual investors, if they believe they have relied upon improper advice rendered by Merrill Lynch or anybody else, can file that claim, ... That is the best forum for those issues to be resolved.

Alex Winter

I think my first and foremost advice is to have a very realistic understanding of what making movies is; how much work it is, how unglamorous it is, how much tenacity you have to have.

I think I made the wrong decision, taking some advice from the trainers. It just happens sometimes in football.

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.

Adlai E. Stevenson

We should be careful and discriminating in all the advice we give. We should be especially careful in giving advice that we would not think of following ourselves. Most of all, we ought to avoid giving counsel which we don't follow when it damages those who take us at our word.

We are waiting for advice from them on what they want to do next.

We are taking advice on the vaccinations against avian flu, and in the meantime we will continue to give our six ravens as much care and attention as they need.

Bob DuPuy

We are studying the language in an effort to understand its impact on our existing agreements and consulting with experts for advice concerning its ultimate impact on the future of Major League Baseball in Washington. We are interested in reviewing the analysis of this legislation made by both the (District) Office of the Chief Financial Officer and that made by the Office of the Attorney General prior to reaching our conclusions.

We are going to have a situation where people are going to have to walk a long distance. They need to be careful, ... Our advice is to go home, open up your windows, drink a lot of liquids.

We are going to get good advice on how to run a campaign from people who run them.

Wayne Pacelle

We'd advise him to pursue a less violent form of relaxation and get on with the important business of leading the country.