“'Live and let live' is what I say, Tucker. Takes all kinds to build a freeway.”— Kevin McNulty, Basketball Coach, amazon.com
“When he speaks to you count to three in your head before you answer him.”— Arielle Kebbel, Carrie, amazon.com
“They expect their lover to read their mind. Men aren't mind readers and each woman can vary in terms of what pleases her and helps her reach orgasm. Let your partner know how he can please you. Be specific and concrete. Show him. Gentle but clear direction will be greatly appreciated. Your man wants…”— Julie Orlov, yourtango.com
“They turn to you for dating advice. Your ex asking you for dating advice is their way of trying to get you involved with their personal life again by making you jealous of their new love interest. If they want dating advice that badly they can ask their friends, family members, co-workers, or anyone…”— Taylor Geiger, answers.com
“People often ask questions they already know answers to. They just want to hear it from another voice. One outside their head.”— Paul Thomas Anderson, imdb.com
“She generally gave herself very good advice (though she very seldom followed it).”— Lewis Carroll, amazon.com
“Never take advice about never taking advice. That is an old vice of men - to dish it out without being able to take it - the blind leading the blind into more blindness.”— Criss Jami, amazon.com
“The best piece of advice anyone has ever shared with me is, 'Do it, don't wait to be asked. Have confidence in your ideas. Don't be scared to say no.'”— Lotte Anderson, i-d.vice.com
“He’s hoping you’ll provide some guidance. Every woman is different, so no matter how experienced (or inexperienced) your guy is, he’s going to be hoping you’ll assist him in your, you know, experience!”— Sally Murphy, 29secrets.com
“Don’t do what you know on a gut level to be the wrong thing to do. Don’t stay when you know you should go or go when you know you should stay. Don’t fight when you should hold steady or hold steady when you should fight. Don’t focus on the short-term fun instead of the long-term fall out. Don’t surr…”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com
“I learned to produce whether I wanted to or not. It would be easy to say oh, I have writer’s block, oh, I have to wait for my muse. I don’t. Chain that muse to your desk and get the job done.”— Barbara Kingsolver, amazon.com
“Over the years, I’ve found one rule. It is the only one I give on those occasions when I talk about writing. A simple rule. If you tell yourself you are going to be at your desk tomorrow, you are by that declaration asking your unconscious to prepare the material. You are, in effect, contracting to…”— Norman Mailer, amazon.com
“Writer’s block is my unconscious mind telling me that something I’ve just written is either unbelievable or unimportant to me, and I solve it by going back and reinventing some part of what I’ve already written so that when I write it again, it is believable and interesting to me. Then I can go on.…”— Orson Scott Card, fictionfactor.com
“The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day … you will never be stuck. Always stop while you are going good and don’t think about it or worry about it until you start to write the next day. That way your subconscious will w…”— Ernest Hemingway, medium.com
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.”— Mark Twain, bloomberg.com
“I’ve never worked a day in my life. I’ve never worked a day in my life. The joy of writing has propelled me from day to day and year to year. I want you to envy me, my joy. Get out of here tonight and say: ‘Am I being joyful?’ And if you’ve got a writer’s block, you can cure it this evening by stopp…”— Ray Bradbury, brainpickings.org
“I encourage my students at times like these to get one page of anything written, three hundred words of memories or dreams or stream of consciousness on how much they hate writing — just for the hell of it, just to keep their fingers from becoming too arthritic, just because they have made a commitm…”— Anne Lamott, amazon.com