Quotes About Offering Advice

#1. There are all sorts of books offering advice on how to deal with life-threatening situations, but where's the advice on dealing with embarrassing ones?

Ellen DeGeneres

#2. 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

#3. I use to think being a warning was not meant to be apart of anyone's life purpose. However, how could you teach anything in life, without the deepest understanding of what not to do? Personally, I don't want someone offering advice, unless they have been to hell and back with a map and a compass.

Shannon L. Alder

#4. Microsoft is still living down its disastrous introduction of Clippy, a ghastly piece of artificial intelligence - I'm using that term very loosely - that would observe people's behavior as they worked on a document and try to bust in, offering 'advice' that tended to be spectacularly useless

Clive Thompson

#5. Ask before offering advice or reassurance.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#6. The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one's children has led to a whole library of books offering advice on how to raise them.

Bruno Bettelheim

#7. Someone can have the best intentions,' Markov said, 'but offering the wrong advice, the wrong help at the wrong time, can be worse than not helping at all.

Tonya Hurley

#8. Often, instead of offering empathy, we have a strong urge to give advice or reassurance and to explain our own position or feeling.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#9. As a Christian I take it for granted that human history will some day end; and I am offering Omniscience no advice as to the best date for that consummation.

C.S. Lewis

#10. Hermes?" Apollo hissed - actually hissed like an angry lion. "That little, punk-ass bitch.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#11. Being overseas at the time it all kind of happened was perfect because I had no idea that it was going to attract so much media attention and provoke these lovely people calling in and offering up their opinions and advice.

Cathy Freeman

#12. What you want is the opportunity to work and an audience. Prizes after that are just a great big bonus.

Kenneth Branagh

#13. One of the best things about being a Yankee is that you have guys like Whitey Ford, Phil Rizzuto, Ron Guidry and Reggie Jackson wandering around the locker room offering you advice.

Derek Jeter

#14. The thing about obsessing about a happy ending is that you forget to enjoy the journey along the way, You forget to appreciate the people alongside you.

Beth Pattillo

#15. Resentment gratifies him who intended an injury, and pains him unjustly who did not intend it.

Samuel Johnson

#16. To be a deep listener, one of the first things we have to do is give up the need and the desire to give advice. Knowing answers does not require stating them; there are times when offering answers is not helpful, as when a person is in the middle of their own learning process.

John Earle

#17. i Create. I don't "Need".
Meaning: I don't need advice or criticism.
Unless you're offering money, weed, or whiskey save it. Thanks.

Jonathan Heatt

#18. There are people walking around the streets of Kansas City who are unemployed, while one of our largest employers is not only sending jobs aboard, but then turning around and making a statement about preserving jobs.

Emanuel Cleaver

#19. If you are trying to find more information on Marilyn Miles Conner, please look under Marilyn Conner Miles. Name was written wrong on original cover.

Marilyn Miles Conner

#20. 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

#21. I became what I wanted to be.

G. Gordon Liddy

#22. You poke at evil with a stick," Valerie had said, offering chilling advice they'd never forget. "Never use your fingers.

Gregg Olsen

#23. It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.

Anne Tyler

#24. 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

#25. Even if only one guerilla cub survives the prolonged struggle, I am confident that he will raise the flag of Palestine overJerusalem ... Jerusalem is destined to be the eternal capital of our sovereign, independent Palestinian state under the P.L.O. leadership.

Yasser Arafat