Top 100 Listen To Advice Quotes
#1. The price of telling your troubles is having to listen to advice.
Mason Cooley
#2. Listen to advice from people who have been there and done that. It is so hard to believe that when you are young, but parents, mentors, teachers, they can all be so valuable when it comes to advice.
Lauren Conrad
#3. As a writer, you have to first of all write what you want to. Listen to advice, by all means, but don't get bogged down in it.
Joe Abercrombie
#4. The belly will not listen to advice; it makes demands, it importunes. And yet it is not a troublesome creditor; you can send it away at small cost, provided only that you give it what you owe, not merely all you are able to
Seneca.
#5. Listen to advice. You don't know how many writer's conferences I've taught at where at least half the audience fights all the conventions of the field.
Jane Haddam
#7. Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro.
Dave Barry
#8. Don't listen to advice. Give yourself the freedom to make your own errors, it's the only way you'll learn.
Stewart Stafford
#10. Children listen, I'm trying to tell you something good, don't get caught up in the hood.
Dr. Dre
#11. Your Blake is mourning something. I think that pain is manifesting as his glass-skin delusions. You're going to have to approach him as if he's in one of those tents I walk into. My advice is this: Listen, Livia. Listen to him. Saying words out loud can heal.
Debra Anastasia
#12. Listen to the advice of your own Destiny! All is a given!
Sorin Cerin
#13. Sometimes, it's not so bad to listen to some one talk about weapons or horses - or medicine. Honestly, when someone is trying to talk to you about those things, the important thing they're always saying is that they care enough about what you think to try to share themselves with you.
Breeana Puttroff
#14. I do not take advice or listen to the words of hypocrites or beings that are not self-realized. It's nothing personal. I am simply no fan of beings that try to sound wise, while trying to mask their imbecility.
Lionel Suggs
#15. One of the most important pieces of advice that I have learned is to listen to your customers. They will be able to tell you how your business is doing and what direction you need to go in.
Bill Zanker
#16. It is critical to learn how to listen for what is not being said.
Debra Kaye
#17. It is said that dispensing advice is easy. What is difficult is getting anyone to listen to it.
Judith Martin
#18. To listen to critics, pro or con, and take their words to heart is to subcontract your self-esteem to strangers. (from Workbook)
Steven Heighton
#19. What I've found in my life with our children is that often you can give them advice and tell them to eat the right things, stay in shape and wear sunscreen, and they don't really want to listen. But then they hear it from someone else, and they do listen.
Rick Pitino
#20. Women don't like advice. They don't want you to fix their problems, they just want you to listen.
Shawn Wayans
#21. It is an imprudence common to kings to listen to too much advice and to err in their choice.
Pierre Corneille
#22. I remember saying to my agent, "Listen, everybody's going out to Hollywood and making movies. I think I ought to go out there." And his advice to me was, "I wouldn't do that if I were you. If they want you in Hollywood, they'll send you." And sure enough, they did.
Morgan Freeman
#23. Don't just listen to a good Advice, but also take it.
Mohith Agadi
#25. The key to running a good marathon is to not listen to anyone's advice the last week before the race. That's when people tend to do stupid things that disrupt all the input and training of the previous months.
Don Kardong
#26. My editor, Robin Robertson, is one of this country's finest poets, so I listen to him when he offers advice.
John Burnside
#28. Your spiritual teachers caution you against enquiry
tell you not to read certain books; not to listen to certain people; to beware of profane learning; to submit your reason, and to receive their doctrines for truths. Such advice renders them suspicious counsellors.
Frances Wright
#29. Whenever I'm asked what advice I have for young writers, I always say that the first thing is to read, and to read a lot. The second thing is to write. And the third thing, which I think is absolutely vital, is to tell stories and listen closely to the stories you're being told.
John Green
#30. I learned one thing from De Niro: He taught me to listen. Nobody says anything strictly from the script. It's improvised. It was the best piece of advice I have ever gotten in my life. It has helped me through the past thirty years.
Cathy Moriarty
#31. listen to the advice of others but to act only on my own beliefs, and to make my own decisions.
Louis L'Amour
#32. If you go to most third world countries, the older woman dispenses advice to the arguing couple while other members of the family, or even the village, sit around and listen. It is no big deal.
Trisha Goddard
#33. The ability to listen,watch and draw lessons from obvious and unlikely places breeds originality and growth
Biz Stone
#34. Listen to people, gain advice and gain the respect of your fellow team-mates. Make sure you put in the hours and you'll have fun.
Phil Hill
#35. Unfortunately, I was not wise enough to listen to her advice, and hastily married. In a few weeks, I had occasion to repent of the step I had taken, as the report proved true - a report which I thought justified, and indeed required, our separation.
Maria Monk
#36. It is funny, I don't feel old enough to give advice ... But with the advisers you trust, you better listen to them. It may be bad news but that's the only way you're going to improve.
Ben Heppner
#37. A Lincolnesque leader is confident enough to be humble - to not feel the need to bluster or dominate, but to be sufficiently sure of one's own judgment and self-worth to really listen and not be threatened by contrary advice.
Evan Thomas
#38. Don't I always tell you to never listen to me?
Sean Kennedy
#39. The worst advice? 'Don't listen to the critics.' I think that you really ought to listen to the critics, because sometimes they're telling you something is broken that you can fix.
Stephen King
#40. Don't be afraid anymore. Not of anyone. Not of anything. Nothing. Ever again. Listen to me: not ever again.
Marguerite Duras
#41. Listen, punk. To me you're nothin' but dogshit, you understand? And a lot of things can happen to dogshit. It can be scraped up with a shovel off the ground. It can dry up and blow away in the wind. Or it can be stepped on and squashed. So take my advice and be careful where the dog shits ya!
Clint Eastwood
#42. Empathy is a respectful understanding of what others are experiencing. Instead of offering empathy, we often have a strong urge to give advice or reassurance and to explain our own position or feeling. Empathy, however, calls upon us to empty our mind and listen to others with our whole being.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
#43. By all means listen to other people's advice, but when in doubt go with your gut instinct.
Steve Pavlina
#44. Listen carefully to what I am saying - and be wary of the shrewd advice that tells you how to get ahead in the world on your own. Giving, not getting, is the way. Generosity begets generosity. Stinginess impoverishes. NEVER WITHOUT A STORY
Eugene H. Peterson
#45. Hence, viper thoughts, that coil around my mind, Reality's dark dream!
I turn from you, and listen to the wind.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#46. I'm a good listener. I think it's the one characteristic that's most important. I've always been that way. Not that I take all the advice, but you've got to listen to it and have the courage to make your own decision. And just go for it.
Tom Cruise
#47. The only advice I can give you is what you're telling yourself. Only, maybe you're too scared to listen.
Neil Gaiman
#48. A politicians willingness to listen to good advice rises in inverse proportion to how badly he thinks he is doing.
Patrick Caddell
#49. Never listen to a phone call that isn't meant for you. Never read a letter that isn't meant for you. Never pay attention to a comment that isn't meant for you. Never violate people's privacy. You will save yourself a lot of anguish.
Edward Kennedy
#50. Prioritizing listening to their child or adolescent is extremely important. It can be very hard to listen to someone who is upset or troubled without offering advice or suggestions or otherwise telling him or her what to do.
Timothy Carey
#51. Anger begins as an inner twinge. We sense something long before it blossoms (explodes?) into an emotional tirade. If we listen to this twinge
and follow its advice
the emotional outburst (or in burst) is not needed.
Peter McWilliams
#52. Listen to your hunches, pay attention to your intuition, do not dismiss your random thoughts, inspirations or ideas ... They could be giving you the best advice you ever had ...
Neale Donald Walsch
#53. I sometimes give myself excellent advice. Occasionally, I even listen to it.
Jim Butcher
#54. When it's a matter of not-do, I reckon a man can trust himself for advice. But when it comes to a matter of doing, I reckon a fellow had better listen to all the advice he can get.
William Faulkner
#55. Listen to no one's advice except that of the wind in the trees. That can recount the whole history of mankind ...
Claude Debussy
#56. You need to understand that truth is stranger than fiction. Listen: people are willing to swallow any old tripe as long as you say it without flinching. They want to be told stuff. And they don't want to doubt you either. It's too hard.
Craig Silvey
#57. As playwrights, as poets, we have to look to ourselves, listen to our guts for the final answers about what changes to make. Everyone has advice about how to end your play differently. And it's not about right or wrong. At the end of the day, it's your baby and you know what's best.
Stephen Karam
#58. What advice do I tell my grandson? I listen to him.
Roy Haynes
#59. He who will not listen to any advice, nor be corrected in his writings, is a rank pedant.
Jean De La Bruyere
#60. Listen to the advice of others, but follow only what you understand and can unite in your own feeling. Be firm, be meek, but follow your own convictions. It is better to be nothing than an echo of other painters.
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
#61. My only advice is to feel with joy, listen with your heart, be kind to all, be compassionate when needed, and love endlessly.
Debasish Mridha
#62. Love gives insight, Maggie, and insight often gives foreboding. Listen to me, let me supply you with books; do let me see you sometimes, be your brother and teacher, as you said at Lorton. It is less wrong that you should see me than that you should be committing this long suicide.
George Eliot
#63. Rule of life. If you bother to ask someone's advice, then bother to listen to it.
Sophie Kinsella
#64. Park your ego and listen to your readers. They can be your best friend or your worst enemy. But chances are you'll learn something from them.
Eliza Green
#65. Always consider who you're learning from. Don't listen to people who are not experiencing the success you want.
Ehab Atalla
#66. When seeking guidance, don't ever listen to the tiny-hearted. Be kind to them, heap them with blessing, cajole them, but do not follow their advice.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
#67. It's very nice to work with my father as a peer in a lot of ways. You know, he asked me advice about certain things about the show and I'd ask him and sometimes I'd listen to his direction and sometimes I wouldn't.
Emily Deschanel
#68. Sure, I could give advice; I could, say, travel the world, listen to music. But all I can really say is do something you want to do and do it well. And if you want to be a choreographer, then you have to make dances.
Mark Morris
#69. Listen more; talk less."
An executive once gave me this advice. I think it's a good thing for us all to keep in mind.
Mary Turner Heimstead
#70. I've broken a cardinal rule of art, music, and career paths: actors are supposed to act, and musicians are supposed to music. That's how it works. You don't buy fish from a dentist, or ask a plumber for financial advice, so why listen to an actor's music?
Hugh Jackman
#71. 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
#72. Try not to become disappointed if someone doesn't like a story you've written. Stick up for your ideas, but listen to what other people say, too. They might have good advice.
Margaret Mahy
#73. Listen carefully, my child, to your master's precepts, and incline the ear of your heart. Receive willingly and carry out effectively your loving father's advice, that by the labor of obedience you may return to Him from whom you had departed by the sloth of disobedience
Benedict Of Nursia
#74. Stop shying away from people. If you actually took a moment to listen to what they have to say, they might just say something that will change your life.
S.R. Crawford
#75. It is the privilege of adults to give advice. It is the privilege of youth not to listen. Both avail themselves of their privileges, and the world rocks along.
Dominique Sutton
#76. My advice for the next commander in chief: Listen to your military advisers. Listen to your generals. They are the experts. Even if you have a commander in chief who has served in the military, that person still isn't engaged on a daily basis. The generals will know best.
Ralph Abraham
#77. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
Lillian Hellman
#78. My advice for other female directors is look for people who really appreciate your vision and are willing to genuinely support you. When it comes time to taking notes on various cuts, if you have a smart producer, listen to her notes!
Linda Hoaglund
#79. Most teenage girls don't give old people the time of day which is sad because all old people do all the time is think about how nice it was to be a teenager so long ago.
Aimee Bender
#80. I know it's difficult in the beginning. But, listen. If you have the impulse to write, do yourself a favor, do the world a favor, and write.
Christy Hall
#81. You have to be totally one hundred per cent committed to act. I do value everyone else's advice, but ultimately I have to listen to myself.
Dakota Fanning
#83. Alright, listen up. I'm supposed to give you some fatherly and wise advice at this time in your life. Listen up, if you're wondering if a boy's thinking about you, he's not. He's thinking about sex, or he's hungry: those are the only two options.
Eric Taylor
#84. One word of caution - be careful how much you listen to the advice of others when in a deep pit of despair.
David P. Ingerson
#85. Don't listen to other people's advice unless it is rooted in irrepressible enthusiasm (e.g., "Be afraid but do it anyway"), or about the importance of being a good colleague.
Torill Kove
#86. A true friend knows when to give advice and when to just listen.
"stuff I think about" book by Sondra Faye
Sondra Faye
#87. I could hunker down by myself and listen closely to mixes, but then to be able to have a sounding board of peers to get advice and feedback.
Aoife O'Donovan
#88. A headstrong maid, that she is-and won't listen to no advice at all. Pride and vanity have ruined many a cobbler's dog.
Thomas Hardy
#89. Everyone who means well gives advice based on his or her perception. I have realized that while it's important to hear the suggestions, one should only listen to oneself.
Emraan Hashmi
#90. Don't be too quick to accept every direction from friends. Watch closely what your hear before your apply.
Israelmore Ayivor
#91. Listen to the advice from the one who's already achieved your goal
Robert Kiyosaki
#92. For me, as far as skin, I'm a big advocate of facials. And I moisturize. And I read my magazines. I listen to good advice from people who really know, and I try to watch what I eat.
Eva Longoria
#93. I think that artists, at a certain point, can either become defiant and say that the audience is wrong, readers don't get them, and they're going to keep doing it their own way, or they can listen to the criticism - and not necessarily blindly follow the audience's requests and advice.
Adrian Tomine
#94. Listen to the advice of someone about to die. Do it while you are still young.
Glen McDiarmid
#95. My advice to all interviewers is: Shut up and listen. It's harder than it sounds.
Errol Morris
#96. People want to be told what to do so badly that they'll listen to anyone.
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Don Draper From 'Mad Men'
#97. It isn't always easy to act on what's in your head instead of what's in your heart. And it isn't always right to. The whole trick to knowing what to do is deciding when to make yourself listen to your head, and when it's okay to just follow your feelings.
Steven Brust
#99. If my son would only listen to my advice, he would lead a perfect life. I'll still be saying that to him when I'm 75. I like to imagine that I have the control, but he's a teenager, so that never really happens.
Virginia Madsen
#100. The thing that I think a lot of guys need to know how to do is not take your mother's advice about honesty being the best policy. Listen to your cool, drunk uncle who tells you to lie. Those are the relationships that last.
Adam DeVine
