This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
In real life, the most practical advice for leaders is not to treat pawns like pawns, nor princes like princes, but all persons like persons.
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Friedrich Schiller, fully Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.
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José Bergamin, fully José Bergamín Gutiérrez
A piece of advice always contains an implicit threat, just as a threat always contains an implicit piece of advice.
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Jules Feiffer, fully Jules Ralph Feiffer
Be warned against all 'good' advice because 'good' advice is necessarily 'safe' advice, and though it will undoubtedly follow a sane pattern, it will very likely lead one into total sterility--one of the crushing problems of our time.
Cicero, fully Marcus Tullius Cicero, anglicized as Tully NULL
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.
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Michael Jordan, fully Michael Jeffrey Jordon, aka MJ, Air Jordan and His Airness
My advice is find fuel in failure. Sometimes failure gets you closer to where you want to be.
Miguel de Cervantes, fully Miguel de Cervantes Saaversa
A woman's advice has little value, but he who won't take it is a fool.
I'm always there to tell people that their life is not that bad. I wish it was easy to follow that advice It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.
Advice | Important | Life | Life | People | Friendship | Friends |
Be patient, do nothing, cease striving. We find this advice disheartening and therefore unfeasible because we forget it is our own inflexible activity that is structuring the reality. We think that if we do not hustle, nothing will happen and we will pine away. But the reality is probably in motion and after a while we might take part in that motion. But one can't know.
Paul Wellstone, fully Paul David Wellstone
What the poor, the weak, and the inarticulate desperately require is power, organization, and a sense of identity and purpose, not rarefied advice of political scientists.
If I had to give you one piece of advice it would be this: Don’t be intimidated by other people’s opinions. Only mediocrity is sure of itself, so take risks and do what you really want to do. Seek out people who aren’t afraid of making mistakes and who, therefore, do make mistakes. Because of that, their work often isn’t recognized, but they are precisely the kind of people who change the world and, after many mistakes, do something that will transform their own community completely… If I must be faithful to someone or something, I have, first of all, have to be faithful to myself… If I must fall, may it be from a high place… If it's still in your mind, it is still in your heart.
Advice | Change | Mediocrity | People | Will | Work | World | Afraid |
The traditional religious rituals are important; it makes us partners in the experience of others Assembly of worship and prayer. But we must never forget the experience of spiritual experience of love is the first process and not in the rules of love… Traditional religions’ practices are important. They allow us to share with others the communal experience of adoration and prayer, but we must never forget spiritual experience is above all a practical experience of love, and with love, there are no rules some may try to control their emotions and develop strategies for their behavior, others may turn to reading books of advice from experts on relationships but this is all folly. The heart decides and what it decides is all that really matters… We are not worshipping anyone or anything, we are simply communing with creation… Tragedy always brings about radical change in our lives, a change that is associated with the same principle: loss.
Advice | Books | Change | Control | Emotions | Experience | Heart | Love | Reading | Tragedy | Worship |
The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve: we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong.
Pinchas Shapiro of Koretz, aka Pinchas or Pinchos of Koretz
Usually, persons asking for advice have already solved their own problem without knowing it.
Pope Paul VI, born Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini NULL
Never give advice in a crowd.
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Barbara Ehrenreich, born Barbara Alexander
This advice comes as a surprise: job searching is not joblessness; it is a job in itself and should be structured to resemble one, right down to the more regrettable features of employment, like having to follow orders -- orders which are in this case self-generated.