Martha Grimes Quotes

Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product.

Settle all things, both great and small, by consultation. Without prior consultation, take no important step.

Take ye counsel together in all matters, inasmuch as consultation is the lamp of guidance which leadeth the way, and is the bestower of understanding.

Consult with the ignorant as with the wise.

I want to bring meaningful conversations to the table, and I want to shake some things up.

I have to tell it again and again: I have no doctrine. I only point out something. I point out reality, I point out something in reality which has not or too little been seen. I take him who listens to me at his hand and lead him to the window. I push open the window and point outside. I have no doctrine, I carry on a dialogue.

What you want to do is make people talk, start a conversation.

I like being able to have a conversation. I like being able to do a vocal interview.

To be able to work with Bun B and be able to have a conversation, and the insights the OG has, and really be able to get just advice from him, is amazing.

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

Everyone has the answer. Everyone has this. You just got to move slowly. You get good little bits of advice and go from there.

Our ideas need to become part of everyday discussion.

Argument is to me the air I breathe.

It's not the matter you cover so much as it is the manner in which you cover it.

Don't take my criticisms as iron-clad rules but more as suggestions.

Fools need advice most, but wise men only are the better for it.

I have always felt that the only great thing about an interview is the questions that are asked.

Sometimes there is equal or more ability in knowing how to use good advice than there is in giving it.

A word to the wise is sufficient

I think that's the most important thing: that we create dialogue.

You look wise, pray correct that error.

...every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.

There are as many forms of advice as there are colors of the rainbow. Remember that good advice can come from bad people and bad advice from good people. The important thing about advice is that it is simply that. Advice.

Does anyone have any questions for my answers?

Listen to the advice from the one who's already achieved your goal