Baltasar Gracian Quotes

Anyone who can help me, I'm going to take their advice.

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.

T.I.'s my mentor; he's a really close friend of mine. I call him my brother like we talk on the phone all the time. He's helped me with my career.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

I don't really try to give out advice, to be honest.

Pete Krause has become a bit of a mentor to me. If there's anything that I'm struggling with right away, I'll go to him and I'll ask him questions. We've formed a really great relationship.

I'm very grateful for Scott Hall's willingness to take me under his wing and help me.

Players have to let themselves be helped.

I want to be less of a role model and more of a mentor. I don't ever want kids to put me on a pedestal and feel like they can't talk or reach out to me. I want to be there for them.

I'm not so arrogant to think I'm the only guide someone needs ... but I might be the guide that someone needs.

The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel.

To give counsel, as well as to take it, is a feature of true friendship.

I love being directed. I always find it helpful to have someone else's brain in the mix and not just have to rely on myself.

It is sometimes a point of as much cleverness to know to make good use of advice from others as to be able give good advice to oneself.

No man is so foolish but may give another good counsel sometimes; and no man is so wise, but may easily err, if he will take no others counsel but his own. But very few men are wise by their own counsel; or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself had a fool to his master.

Everybody at the Performance Center is trying to help you in their own way, and they give you their opinion on what they think will work or what they think you should do.

There's a very public quality to coaching.

Fernando Llorente has been very important for me. He gives me a lot of advice; we talk a lot. I will thank Fernando for my entire life because it's hard to find people like him, especially in the world of football.

I will always be grateful to Zidane. In every moment he was with me, in the good times we enjoyed together, he gave me advice and he always welcomed me with a smile.

He's always with me; I'm always asking. He can be my father, or he can be my coach, or he can be an ex-player. I can ask him so many things. He teaches me a lot, and I'm really thankful.

Parents are the perfect people to talk to. They have no hidden agendas.

A lot of my friends ask me for advice.

It's not like a boss and artist relationship; it's like a big brother to a younger brother relationship, and he's a great guy. So big shout-out to Akon and the Konvict Muzik crowd.

Puff is more of a mentor rather than someone who's directly involved in my movement or helping me put my album together. It's not like me and him party together. He's definitely more of, like, a mentor.

In Princess Margaret I found a fine friend who could steady my restless nature and offer wise counsel.