Top 46 Quotes About Asking Advice
#1. I see a lot of that on Tumblr - people asking advice from people they don't know. That's so odd to me. Asking an anonymous person for advice seems very odd.
Chris Black
#2. Is it not better to fail after asking advice than to risk acting on our own?
Vincent De Paul
#3. There are two things which a man should scrupulously avoid: giving advice that he would not follow, and asking advice when he is determined to pursue his own opinion.
Norm MacDonald
#4. I lean on a lot of drivers. I have a dirt racing background so I gravitate towards asking for advice from drivers who also dirt race, people like Clint Bowyer since dirt racers seem to have a similar driving style and like the car set up similarly.
Austin Dillon
#5. I get some female attention from fans, but mostly it's people asking for advice about a situation with their ex or their boyfriend, so it's not all love letters and fan mail!
Matthew Hussey
#6. Without asking anybody's advice
I turned myself insane
sitting under the same sun
and the same clouds.
Suman Pokhrel
#7. You cannot have good architecture merely by asking people's advice on occasion. All good architecture is the expression of national life and character; and it is produced by a prevalent and eager national taste, or desire for beauty.
John Ruskin
#8. Asking Senator Fulbright's advice on foreign policy is like asking the Boston Strangler to massage your neck.
Spiro T. Agnew
#9. I asked people who have already finished books for advice, which is akin to asking a mother with a four-year-old what childbirth is like.
Amy Poehler
#10. You're not asking me for advice, you're asking me for permission.
Steve Maraboli
#11. If you don't ask, you don't get. But if you ask and don't get, ask again.
Gina Greenlee
#12. When asking for advice, search not for what is on the surface, Dig deeper, questioning what does this person believe in?
J.R. Rim
#13. The idea of 'advice,' in terms of telling people advice or asking people for advice, has become not comprehensible to me, to a certain degree, due to feeling, like, for something to be accurately defined as 'good' or 'bad,' I would want to know the context, goal, perspective for it.
Tao Lin
#14. There is nothing which for my part I like better, Cephalus, than conversing with aged men; for I regard them as travellers who have gone a journey which I too may have to go, and of whom I ought to inquire, whether the way is smooth and easy, or rugged and difficult.
Plato
#16. Asking the appropriate questions means understanding exactly what your customer is trying to achieve
Chris Murray
#17. As far as we were concerned, we were operators, we were administrators. I don't ever recall going to Dean Acheson and asking for any counsel or advice on administration, but I had the greatest respect for him, as I have today.
Paul Hoffman
#18. I can't figure out why anyone invests in active management, so asking me about hedge funds is just an extreme version of the same question. Since I think everything is appropriately priced, my advice would be to avoid high fees. So you can forget about hedge funds.
Eugene Fama
#19. You won't find someone who treats you as you should be treated until you start to believe you are worth the ones you want, the ones who aren't asking you to do any work. Find the man who appreciates you at your best, not one who confirms your worst suspicions about yourself.
Mhairi McFarlane
#20. One of my professors in college used to say As the wise man said, Do or do not, there is no try, but the advice columns generally say the opposite. If someone promises to try, and you're happy with that, don't push. It can backfire. You can get yourself in a lot of trouble asking for too much.
Jael McHenry
#21. Asking for financial advice from a financial planner is like asking a barber if you need a hair cut.
Warren Buffett
#22. I get emails from strangers every day asking for love advice, which is kind of counter-intuitive since I'm making a movie about what an idiot I am with relationships.
Davy Rothbart
#23. I don't give advice. 90% of the time nobody takes it anyway. I will give encouragement and if asked a question as to how, or why I did certain things and if I think this will help whomever is asking the question I will do this.
Dionne Warwick
#24. And I wasn't convinced that it was a good idea, sort of like asking for advice on how to catch a baseball in your teeth or pick all the cheese off your cheeseburger.
Raymond Chen
#25. Sometimes something that you've been asking for
It's just something that you could not see before.
For it was something that made you belong,
And that was there the whole time all along.
Ana Claudia Antunes
#26. Asking for advice is an act of humility ... The act alone says, "I need you." The decision maker and the adviser are pushed into a closer relationship.
Dennis Bakke
#27. I don't need to be liked, but I need to be vital - on set or on stage - and I think that probably would be my advice: Stay vital. It's about saying 'no' and asking the tough questions and believing in yourself when no one else will, but you have to know the rules to break them.
Logan Marshall-Green
#28. He said he wants variety. The irony is that I wanted variety too. But I wanted variety in a solid, stable committed relationship where I would wake up each morning asking "What are we going to do today?" not asking "Who are you going to do today?
Aimee Lane
#29. Asking for advice about what you should write is a little like asking for help getting dressed. I can you tell you what I think looks good, but you have to wear it. And as every fashion victim knows, very few people look good in everything.
Betsy Lerner
#30. After all, there's only one aswer to be made to the young fellow who is asking constantly for advice as to how to hit. The answer is: Pick out a good one and sock it!
Babe Ruth
#32. I will say this: one of the things that is a pain when you're expecting children is how much advice unsolicited people give you when you're not asking for it.
Matthew McConaughey
#33. Actors don't generally go asking other actors for advice too much, but I'll take suggestions wherever I can.
Matt Dillon
#34. I would never offer advice without the person asking for it. I, in general, don't believe in giving advice, actually, as a human being I don't.
Joan Chen
#35. Adrian kept sending me e-mails, asking me to rescue him (while also offering unsolicited dating advice). Ms. Terwilliger continued her passive aggressive attempts to teach me magic. Eddie continued in his fierce dedication to Jill. And Angeline continued her not-so-subtle advances on Eddie.
Richelle Mead
#36. Malkin concluded with this advice for parents: Be "prudes." Be "rude." Be "shrill." And never, ever feel ashamed for asking out loud, "Have you no shame?"[30]
James C. Dobson
#37. Projects become complex because we try to solve it alone. Use your working relationships to help you problem solve. Your solution may be as easy as asking your online community for help and direction.
Lisa A. Mininni
#38. He looked like someone pretending to be a knight, which was bad. He figured pretending to be something he actually wanted to be was just asking for it.
Liam Perrin
#39. My advice is don't keep asking yourself if you can do something. Just get out there and do it. You can really surprise yourself.
Roz Savage
#40. Never lie in bed at night asking yourself questions you can't answer.
Charles M. Schulz
#41. I remember the first time Dakota asked me for fashion advice about what to put with what. I was like, 'My big sister is asking me?'
Elle Fanning
#42. Women who seek advice from single women about getting a man is like asking a homeless man how to be rich.
Habeeb Akande
#43. There are no foolish questions and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions.
Charles Proteus Steinmetz
#44. Asking questions will get you the performance you are after far more than dictating demands.
Dan James
#45. Asking for advice means, "Tell me what to do." Seeking education means, "Tell me what to study so I can learn what I need to do.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#46. Now I'll give you some advice, since you been asking for it. Happiness is like them plants you been yapping about. Sometimes it's growing right in your own backyard and you don't even know it.
Cathie Pelletier
