Smart Advice Quotes

#1. Advice is not really very useful. People gave me terrible advice, and I guess I was just smart enough to ignore some of it.

Travis Morrison

#2. Make Hard Work Your Best Friend. Hard Work becomes Smart Work; Smart Work becomes Easy Work.

Vid Lamonte' Buggs Jr.

#3. If you're going to do something dumb, do it in a smart way. This is my advice for falling in love.

Jarod Kintz

#4. 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

#5. Seek to be the smartest in a room, not the loudest.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#6. Being with someone who is smart and gives good advice adds tremendously wonderful elements to your life.

Patricia Cornwell

#7. If you're making a conscious effort ... someone should be meeting you on the same page. Don't be silly be smart.

Turcois Ominek

#8. I didn't know whether to feel smart for figuring out Kiki's advice, or feel like a simpleton for having a horse tell me the right thing to do

Maria V. Snyder

#9. I don't think Emma Watson needs any advice. She's an incredibly smart young woman who knows what she wants out of life and she has some great parents.

Ethan Hawke

#10. He who is surety is never sure himself. Take advice, and never be security for more than you are quite willing to lose. Remember the word of the wise man: He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it; and he that hateth suretyship is sure.

Charles Spurgeon

#11. You're very smart. Smarter than I am, I hope. Though of course I have such incredible vanity that I can't really believe that anyone is actually smarter than I am. Which means that I'm all the more in need of good advice, since I can't actually conceive of needing any.

Orson Scott Card

#12. I only do what my gut tells me to. I think it's smart to listen to other people's advice, but at the end of the day, you're the only one who can tell you what's right for you.

Jennifer Lopez

#13. I've learned that while I'd be a fool not to stay open to the advice and experiences of the smart, amazing people in my life, I also need to listen to what I have to say.

Alicia Keys

#14. I got a lot of Ph.D.-types and smart people around me who come into the Oval Office and say, 'Mr. President, here's what's on my mind.' And I listen carefully to their advice. But having gathered the device, I decide, you know, I say, 'This is what we're going to do.'

George W. Bush

#15. It was her eyes and my eyes and I felt a surging sensation of rightness, of saying the right thing at the right time to the right person.

Maggie Stiefvater

#16. The smart business person sees an opportunity to generate referrals by collaborating with their competitors.

Timothy M. Houston

#17. Know how to use evasion. That is how smart people get out of difficulties.

Baltasar Gracian

#18. Why not just recreate Einstein - one of the smartest humans of all-time, she thought. His advice will be priceless!

Brad McKinniss

#19. Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Tony Alessandra

#20. Be grateful, be smart, be clean, be true, be humble, be prayerful.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#21. When I seemed to be irritable or sad, my father would quote the learned Dr. Knight, and then say, 'Just go to sleep.' Like all smart aleck kids, I thought the advice was silly. But as I've grown older, I've realized just how smart Knight was.

Ben Stein

#22. Live for the moment but do it the smart way so you can experience more nice moments !!

Jojo1980

#23. I married my best friend. I was still in awe after more than four years of being around her at how smart and strong and loving and caring she was. And I really hoped that her choosing me and rejecting my advice to pursue her own career was a decision she would never regret.

William J. Clinton

#24. After everything I'd lived through, I was not going to be reduced to a one-sentence definition.

Maggie Stiefvater

#25. *marissa tries to get her single, working mother's attention by suggesting something outrageous, to which mom replies:*

'You're a smart girl. Use your head and avoid any guy who reminds you of your father.

Camille Pagan

#26. Remember this, folks - I am a Hillbilly, and I don't always Bet the same way I talk. Good advice is one thing, but smart gambling is quite another.

Hunter S. Thompson

#27. There were so many different versions of him. It was countless versions of a song, and they were all original, and they were all true, and they were all right. It should have been impossible. Was I supposed to love them all?

Maggie Stiefvater

#28. If you're smart, you'll think twice, when they start to sound off with advice.

Elvis Presley

#29. Everybody wants to have intimate conversations, but the smart fellows don't give out, only the fools. The smart fellows talk intimately about the fools, and examine them all over and give them advice.

Saul Bellow

#30. His track record of pragmatism, depth and candor all speak to a person who would find the Tea Party simplistic, opportunistic and misguided. Reagan was surrounded by some very smart people who gave him very sound advice. They were not wondering where certain countries are on the map.

Eugene Jarecki

#31. Jim Cramer is a very smart man. I watch his show. I just do not follow his advice.

Robert Kiyosaki

#32. I may die young, but at least I'll die smart.... If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart...Best advice I can ever give you.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#33. Retaliation is not the answer. You're going to have to deal with mean backstabbing girls your whole life, you need to learn to be smart enough to rise above, okay?
Did you kick her ass? Good girl!

Richard Castle