Ask for advice, and then use your brain….
Posted by nabil medawar in Miscellaneous Quotes, Special Collections, Words of wisdom, tags: ask for advice
- Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t. ~ Erica Jong
- A lot of girls ask for advice on how to get into acting, and I’m kind of the worst person to ask, because it just kind of fell in my lap… I was just in the right place at the right time. ~ Alexis Bledel
- Anybody who ask for advice nowadays just hasn’t been listening.~ Author Unknown
- Ask Mother for advice on breaking into show business. ~ Jack Davenport
- Ask a woman’s advice, and whatever she advises, Do the very reverse and you’re sure to be wise. ~ Thomas More
- Ask for advice, then use your head. ~ Norwegian Proverb
- For you to ask advice on the rules of love is no better than to ask advice on the rules of madness. ~ Terence
- Give neither advice nor salt, until you are asked for it. ~ English Proverb
- 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.” ~ Tom T. Hall
- If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, “I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.” ~ Ann Landers
- I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career. ~ Gloria Steinem
- Most of us ask for advice when we know the answer but we want a different one. ~ Ivern Ball
- Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them. ~ Author Unknown
- My own perception of that is somewhat colored by where people ask my advice, which is still, of course, about changes to Python internals or at least standard libraries. ~ Guido van Rossum
- Nothing is less sincere than the act of asking and giving advice. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld
- When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice. ~ George Bernard Shaw
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