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  • An actor knows two important things - to be honest in what he is doing and to be in touch with the audience. That's not bad advice for a politician either.

    Two   Advice   Important  
    Ronald Reagan (2004). “Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches”, p.14, Simon and Schuster
  • Old men are always advising young men to save money. That is bad advice. Don't save every nickel. Invest in yourself. I never saved a dollar until I was forty years old.

    Money   Men   Years  
  • He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

    Hands   Giving   Advice  
  • Any other town you go to there's this little devil and a little angel on your shoulder. A little good advice, a little bad advice.You go to Las Vegas, there's like a devil and a devil and they're just battling it out the whole time. It's like, "Smoke some crack!" "Get a hooker!" And then I go, "YEA! Yea, this is a good town. Smoke some crack and get a hooker! Alright!"

    Funny   Angel   Vegas  
    "Premium Blend", series 2, episode 3, June 20, 1998.
  • Seeking an acquisition from the start is more than just bad advice for an entrepreneur. For the entrepreneur it leads to short term tactical decisions rather than company-building decisions and in my view often reduces the probability of success.

  • The worst men often give the best advice.

  • A good man giving bad advice is more dangerous than a nasty man giving bad advice.

    Men   Giving   Advice  
  • There is a little bit of that schoolyard attitude of, it's one thing for a guy your own size to mouth off to you, but if there's a little guy, you should just smack him around. And it's probably bad advice in the schoolyard. It's certainly not a good way to run a foreign policy because even when you are dealing with a non-peer, militarily, war is complicated.

    Running   Attitude   War  
    Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
  • "Be yourself" is about the worst advice you can give some people.

    "American Treasury, 1455-1955". Book by Clifton Fadiman, p. 791, 1955.
  • Sometimes economists in official positions give bad advice; sometimes they give very, very bad advice; and sometimes they work at the OECD.

    "The Beatings Must Continue" by Paul Krugman, krugman.blogs.nytimes.com. April 30, 2013.
  • Ill customs and bad advice are seldom forgotten.

    Advice   Forgotten   Ill  
    Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing
  • That's because Tod never brings anything but death and bad advice," I snapped. "That's not true." Tod tried to grin, "Sometimes I bring pizza.

    Rachel Vincent (2013). “Soul Screamers Volume Three: If I Die\Never to Sleep\Before I Wake”, p.22, Harlequin
  • Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

  • I didn't go Hollywood on the outside with flashy cars, upstairs maids and mink covered bathroom fixtures. I went Hollywood on the inside and that's worst of all. I tried to avoid being natural. I lowered my voice. I copied the mannerisms of other stars. I struck poses. I received bad advice - from dramatic coaches, from agents, and from studio executives. I stopped being a human being. I blame myself and I blame Hollywood's star system.

    Stars   Character   Voice  
    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • There are as many forms of advice as there are colors of the rainbow. Remember that good advice can come from bad people and bad advice from good people. The important thing about advice is that it is simply that. Advice.

    Color   People   Rainbow  
    Al Franken (2002). “Oh, the Things I Know!”, p.16, Penguin
  • I’d compare stock pickers to astrologers but I don’t want to bad mouth astrologers.

  • A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.

    Funny   Life   Wise  
    Twitter post from Oct 30, 2009
  • Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

  • 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.

    Fun   Advice   Useless  
  • Most people struggle financially because they take advice from sales people, not rich people.

    FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from Jun 01, 2012
  • . . . if you can tell the difference between good advice and bad advice, you don't need advice.

    Dr. Laurence J. Peter (2013). “Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times”, p.44, Harper Collins
  • A man who works evil against another works it really against himself, and bad advice is worst for the one who devised it

    Men   Evil   Advice  
  • There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.

    Sophocles, Francis Fergusson (1969). “Electra: A Version for the Modern Stage”
  • I wish I could tell you to always follow your heart, but I think it is bad advice. You have a heart, yes, it is true, but also a brain and also a soul. I've come to believe that we love with our brains as much as our hearts. Real Love is not just instinct, but intent...... From year to year, you may not always be the same Jane. This is perfectly normal. A Jane is many Janes in a lifetime.

    Real   Believe   Heart  
  • But I don't think people take bad advice. They've got intuition too, you know. In fact I'd be surprised if they take any advice at all.

    Anne Tyler (1991). “Anne Tyler: a new collection : three complete novels”, Outlet
  • Probably all of my advice is bad advice.

    Source: www.avclub.com
  • What I find to be very bad advice is the snappy little sentence, 'Write what you know.' It is the most tiresome and stupid advice that could possibly be given. If we write simply about what we know we never grow. We don't develop any facility for languages, or an interest in others, or a desire to travel and explore and face experience head-on. We just coil tighter and tighter into our boring little selves. What one should write about is what interests one.

    Stupid   Writing   Self  
  • It's just that it's mind-boggling to me how many people I encounter every day who are struggling to subsist on a diet of bad advice about fake solutions to nonexistent problems.

    Struggle   People   Fake  
    "Kung Fu Grippe" personal blog, www.kungfugrippe.com. 2010.
  • There's a saying - "Write what you know." It's bad advice if you take it as an unbreakable rule, but good advice if you use it as a foundation.

    Writing   Advice   Use  
    Interview with Catherine Elsworth, www.goodreads.com. November 2014.
  • The connoisseur of painting gives only bad advice to the painter. For that reason I have given up trying to judge myself.

    Giving   Judging   Advice  
    Pablo Picasso (1972*). “Picasso: 90 Drawings and Works in Colour”
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