Terrible Advice Quotes

#1. People always say, 'Write what you know', but I've always found that to be terrible advice. It's quite limiting, what you know.

Steve Toltz

#2. I had a lot of really terrible advice early in my writing career and I cheesed off people without even knowing it, all the while thinking I was implementing good advice.

Douglas Coupland

#3. 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

#4. Oh, she just happened to be a friend of the producer's. Or, oh, they've been trying to get her from the beginning and she just had a spot open up. There are always little loopholes, so I don't take anything personally anymore.

Ellen Muth

#5. If you rely exclusively on the advice of others, you may make terrible mistakes. Your heart knows what you need. Other people have other agendas.

Brian L. Weiss

#6. You cannot provoke. You cannot insult the faith of others. You cannot make fun of the faith of others.

Pope Francis

#7. Just a word of advice. Whenever you're furious with your parents or you think they're terrible, just remember, you vomited on them and they kept you.

John Green

#8. If you are honest with yourself, your life will be so much more pleasant.

Jessica Zafra

#9. Owing to the high infant mortality of the times, estimated at one or two in three, the investment of love in a young child may have been so unrewarding that by some ruse of nature, as when overcrowded rodents in captivity will not breed, it was suppressed.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#10. The next time someone pesters you with unneeded advice, gently remind him of the fate of the monk whom Ivan the Terrible put to death for delivering uninvited (and moralizing) advice. It works as a short-term cure.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#11. Shoes are like people. They adjust to situations.

Don DeLillo

#12. It's a terrible thing being a patriarch. I don't even have a gray beard. But people keep calling me up for advice.

Pete Seeger