To me, people’s lives and loves are entwined with their characters, natures and circumstances. I regard all general advice with skepticism. – Rafael Yglesias
Listen to people and treat people as you find them. There’s an inherent goodness in most people. Don’t pre-judge people – that was me Mam’s advice anyway. – Sean Bean
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. – Ross Perot, Jr.
Beware of advice about successful people and their methods. For starters, no two situations are alike. Your dreams of creating a dry-cleaning empire won’t be helped by knowing that Thomas Edison liked to take naps. – Scott Adams
As much as my parents are part of Hollywood, I have no recollection of them giving me advice about it. – Rashida Jones
In my son’s kindergarten, they’re telling us how to get him into Stanford. By their advice, I’m doing everything wrong, because I’m trying to make him happy rather than putting him through as many piano lessons as possible. – Sebastian Thrun
Tax season always means a deluge of tax advice. Unfortunately, most of it is futile and lightweight. – Robert Kiyosaki
It’s better to spend a lot on a getup you love than a fraction of that on something, or even five of those somethings, that you’ll never bother to take out of the shopping bag. By the way, this advice also applies to discount love interests. And half-price sushi. – Patricia Marx
The best piece of advice I’ve ever been given was, ‘Be in the business you’re in.’ Don’t just be a satellite around it and expect it to come to you. Be in the business you’re in. – Ray Stevenson
I’m very wary about giving advice. I think it’s very dangerous to give advice to people, except if you know them very well. – Omar Sharif
This character in the film, these things that he says which sound like advice and wise things, they are very common for Orientals. It’s all the tradition. – Omar Sharif
I don’t know that it’s particularly good for my writing process, but I have gotten some very valuable writing ideas and advice through Twitter and Facebook and other social network sites. – Rachel Caine
My advice has always been to study the craft of acting if you want to be an actor. There are many great schools that teach acting. NYU being one of them. – Peter Facinelli
Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs. – Richard M. Nixon
In rural North Carolina, you can get lots of great advice about how to clean and quarter a deer carcass, but we didn’t really have anyone to ask for video advice, so we just kept learning through trial and error. – Rhett McLaughlin
My advice is never let a publicist call you a ‘visionary.’ I’ve hung out with the visionaries at the famed Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. I’ve been a successful Silicon Valley entrepreneur. I wouldn’t touch ‘visionary’ with a 10-foot pole. – Robert Metcalfe
My advice is, if you are going to go on ‘X Factor,’ you have to know who you are as an artist. – Rebecca Ferguson
Andy Grammer is probably the closest friend I have in the music industry, so touring with him was just incredible. He’s such a soulful, kind guy, and he gives great advice. And he also scares me a lot. He does a lot of pranks. – Rachel Platten
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, Jr.
I think the only advice I can give you on how to live your life well is, first off, remember… it’s not the things we do in life that we regret on our deathbed, it is the things we do not. – Randy Pausch
The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery. – Samuel Johnson
Advice to beginning SF writers? Write a lot, finish what you write, and when it’s done, keep sending it out for quite awhile. – Rudy Rucker
