I seek out a lot of advice from other CEOs.
My firm belief is that people who aspire to public service should have the best advice up front, as they decide whether to run and the people decide whether to support them.
The best advice I can give women at all levels is increase training. There are still areas where we have to break through that glass ceiling.
My advice for raising daughters is to spend time with them doing things you both enjoy.
It is very kind of you to consider the possibility of my working in Pasadena, an idea which certainly is attractive, especially since it would hold out the prospect of your cooperation or advice.
My advice to someone to follow in my footsteps is to have patience. I’ve been doing this for twelve years.
My advice to young people who want to act is just to do it as much as you can! Find friends who also want to do it and have readings of great plays in your apartment. You don’t have to wait for someone else to tell you that you can do it. You can be getting better on your own all the time.
I am not somebody who likes to give advice, or anything like that, unless it’s my closest friends or family.
My old manager of the Irish National Theatre said ‘Don’t worry about being a star, just worry about being a working actor. Just keep working.’ I think that’s really good advice.
People call me and ask me for advice all the time. On an elevator they tell me their problems. I think it’s in part because I’m Italian so I’m emotionally available and I have a friendly persona.
I created a successful outdoor youth festival – the Liverd festival – against all good advice. It was a great way to explore and investigate social sculptures. Having that as my kind of studio, outside of a museum or precious white-cube gallery, that was a kind of education.
So there was a constant flow and a thin line there between reality and television and yes, much of what I was experiencing in my real life was also what was going on in the television show to the extent that I had to take writers’ advice and from the counselors around.
My advice to organizations I work with is always to be proactive rather than simply reactive when it comes to human rights issues. After all, the important process of improving company policies and practices must be carried out without having to be prompted by a labour strike, factory collapse or other crisis.
Too often, I have not been what I wanted to be; I’ve succumbed to pressures. Yes, I have. The things I’ve done that I liked, I’ve always done against advice.
Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.
Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro.
People who are overweight don’t want unsolicited advice. Guess what. We know we’re fat. We live in homes with mirrors.
I don’t believe in that term ‘self-made’ – not to be offensive, but I believe everything happens for a reason, every single person you meet. Even if it’s one single person giving you advice, that person helped you get to where you’re at today.
As you get older, you grow and mature, and that should never stop. As soon as you stop growing, you’re done living. I’ll always be growing, forever learning, forever taking in advice from people I deeply respect.
My advice to young film-makers is this: don’t follow trends, start them!
It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.
My mentors in life are much older than me and have been through life. They can actually give me some sound advice on what I’m going through.
I have no advice for anyone on how to live.
I’ve met Oprah Winfrey twice, but I want to spend some quality time with her. I want to sit her down and talk at her for a minute about what she means to me and why she means that. Then I have some advice for her, too… I have an idea or two.
My advice to Hillary would be to divorce that chump.
I was brought up in a very religious household and did a lot of praying throughout a big part of my life and always thought of God as being not only a powerful father figure and the ruler of all time and dimension but also as a friend with whom I could chat and ask questions to and get advice from.
Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
Listen to my advice; I have some experience. In a way, it is me being a teacher, which is what I wanted to be. I still feel I could go into teaching. What is teaching but passing on your knowledge to those who are at the beginning? Some people are born with that gift.
What I’ve come to believe is that psychological advice isn’t worth much if it isn’t rooted in personal experience.
Why should I ever get fed up talking about my father? He was a brilliant, colorful man who left us with thousands of memories. Most people remember his films, but I’ve got anecdotes and advice and episodes of real life tucked away inside my head.
I’m still startled when people ask me for writing advice.
If I had one piece of advice to tell an entrepreneur, I always say, ‘You have to have emotional investment in what you’re working on.’ That’s what we lacked at Odeo.
Listen to advice, but follow your heart.
When I was a child, next to my own mother, no woman that ever lived took as much interest in me, gave me as much motherly advice or seemed to love me more than did Sister Snow. I loved her with all my heart, and loved her hymn, ‘O My Father.’
One bit of advice someone gave me – which I haven’t yet tried – is that if you go to an area where you might pick up a tummy bug, you should seek out the local probiotic yogurt. Eating it will introduce you to the local gut flora, apparently.
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.
I have used Twitter for so many things, from places to stay, places to go, things to do, things I need, medical advice, you name it. Especially when I’m on tour, it really feels like I’m being taken care of by half a million people. It is like having a mom.
I’d like to believe that achieving a leadership position is all about competency, capability and ambition, so I try not to distinguish between the sexes when it comes to giving career advice.
To a contrarian like me, constant advice not to do something almost always starts me quickly down the risky, unpopular path.
The advice I was given was just to make sure you look out of the window occasionally. It’s something no astronaut ever gets tired of doing.
I have always said to myself, ‘I never want to say I’m leaving a job because I want to spend more time with my family.’ I feel sorry for people when they say that. But my advice to them is that you shouldn’t have taken the job in the first place.
Listen to advice. You don’t know how many writer’s conferences I’ve taught at where at least half the audience fights all the conventions of the field.
Do I have any advice for someone new to No. 10? Never open the door in your nightie. And that everybody has to adjust to it in a way that’s right for their family.
We are experiencing such large support for the Olympic relay that our advice is to stay in your neighbourhood, stay in your borough and wait for it to come near you.
My advice to Robin is listen to your heart, do what you feel. Follow your heart in love and marriage as you would in careers, and you’ll be fine. Robin has a great heart. He’s a fabulous father.
The advice that I can give anyone wanting to be in the biz: do all the work, learn your craft. There are no shortcuts. If you stay with it, you will get an opportunity.
Asked to give advice to a 13-year-old girl about how to lead her life, I say find something you love to do. The goal shouldn’t be accumulating money. It might be making changes in the world, or in your country.
Being with someone who is smart and gives good advice adds tremendously wonderful elements to your life.
Great advice comes from people that have been around a lot longer than you.
The best money advice ever given me was from my father. When I was a little girl, he told me, ‘Don’t spend anything unless you have to.’
That’s my advice for indie filmmakers: Marry a supermodel.
I give dating advice on a regular basis. It’s not that I’m any expert, but it’s always nice to share that with your friends.
My advice today, to established acts and new-coming acts, is the same advice I’d give to myself: pause for a minute, and really think about ‘What is your goal? Where do you see yourself?’
People used to ask me for advice, and I’d say, ‘Please, don’t ask me!’ Yes, I did economics at Oxford, but that’s not the same as having a broad knowledge of personal finance.
It’s hard giving advice to a friend about their marriage. You never know if you’re saying too much or too little.
Whatever is about you that is translated into your art, that’s gonna keep you completly original and fresh and I just think that, that’s just the best advice I can give, to an artist creatively.
My mum was a wonderful mother. She died, aged 80, of Alzheimer’s disease, which was dreadful to watch. I remember she said to me: ‘Believe in yourself because no one else is going to do it for you.’ I’m sure a lot of my success is due to her words of advice.
