Quotes About Listening To Advice

#1. Listening to advice often accomplishes far more than heeding it.

Malcolm Forbes

#2. I've given up listening to people. What can they tell me that is so much more to the point than what I've always known? All the mistakes in my life came from accepting advice.

Curt Siodmak

#3. Sometimes, even if there was no useful advice to give, I saw that listening still helped.

Sonia Sotomayor

#4. I love you, she said. And I knew the point of love right then. The point of love was to help you survive.

Matt Haig

#5. Good teams make the playoffs, hot teams win the playoffs.

Derek Jeter

#6. A true friend knows when to give advice and when to just listen.
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Sondra Faye

#7. A little-recognized value of listening and inquiring relates to the realization that in human relationships, it is frequently not what the I've learned ... that it is best to give advice in only two circumstances: when it is requested and when it is a life-threatening situation.

Andy Rooney

#8. Children are a house's enemy. They don't mean to be - they just can't help it. It's their enthusiasm, their energy, their naturally destructive tendencies.

Delia Ephron

#9. If you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because he himself is the way.

Thomas Aquinas

#10. He was young and had been rough with time, listening to its bad advice he had made mistakes, had compromised himself, had trespassed against good behavior and prudence, both in his words and works.

Thomas Mann

#11. I would like a food/lifestyle show. We're not sure what that is yet. I want to be able to share what I do and how I raise my family. I feel like I have a story to tell. I enjoy talking and listening, sharing ideas and sharing advice.

Cat Cora

#12. I think it is funny that we were freer about sexuality in the 4th century B.C. It is a little disconcerting.

Angelina Jolie

#13. My so-called bad dress-sense phase happened when I was confused - I think I was taking advice all too often, without listening to my inner voice. Add to the fact that I was a little overweight; so every wrong 'outfit' got compounded all that much.

Vidya Balan

#14. 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

#15. I took advice from none but the best. I listened, how I listened! That's how I finally became my own expert.

Peggy Guggenheim

#16. Best selling authors are always worth listening to, even if you choose to ignore their advice.

Michael Dirda

#17. Make a concise statement clearly and you should only need to say it once.

Mary Mihalic

#18. The other thing is going to be me being able to show not just the American people or the Israeli people but the world that, in fact, we have mechanisms in place that will prevent Iran from having a nuclear weapon.

Barack Obama

#19. The disaster at the Bay of Pigs intensified Kennedy's doubts about listening to advisers from the CIA, the Pentagon, or the State Department who had misled him or allowed him to accept lousy advice.

Robert Dallek

#20. Life could be cruel enough these days without the truth making it worse.

Kate Morton

#21. The confessor can nullify the exquisitely seasonable moment of confession by talking instead of listening. When he sees pedagogy and advice as more important than simple listening, he diverts the stream of confession.

Thomas C. Oden

#22. You are not listening to a word I am saying ... and I am making the most delightful plans for your future.

Oscar Wilde

#23. After he returned from Washington, Johnson came into Rowe's room and said, "I agree with everything you said." Perhaps he did agree - intellectually. But he didn't take the advice. He couldn't. He was beyond listening to warnings, as was demonstrated the next day, when the convention opened.

Robert A. Caro

#24. We question ourselves through others by way of stories, advice, and gestures; and we receive our answers form listening to others reactions

Jeremy Aldana

#25. I'm actually listening to Turner's advice. I know it sounds stupid as hell, but sometimes, if you dig through his words, there are little nuggets of pure idiot wisdom, the sweetest kind there is.

C.M. Stunich