Edwin Lefevre Quotes

I don't want to preach, and I don't want to tell people what to do.

There are a lot of people who give you their opinions on what to do.

When asked to give advice, I do of course give it, because I give whatever I am asked to give.

You give them recommendations. You throw different angles at them where, hopefully, they can get something out of it.

All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.

There is nothing men are so generous of as advice.

We must be very careful when we give advice to younger people; sometimes they follow it!

Giving advice was a lot harder than following it.

People make suggestions on what to say all the time... Trust me.

Why do you treat me as they do, as though I were exactly what I want to be. Why do we treat people that way?

It's only advice. Ignore it if you want.

There is no goodness in people who don't give advice, and there is no goodness in people who don't like to be advised

...if you expect people to try to do things your way, you're going to have to give some hints as to what that way is.

Neophyte, n. There are millions upon millions of people who have been through this before-- why is it that no one can give my good advice?

You want to work with people who see something outside of you and that you're maybe not aware of. If someone gives you advice or tells you to do something, you want to be able to follow through with what you're asked to do, and also believe that.

Advice is always a confession.

Advice is cheap; you can take it from me.

I'll have 15 letters today from mostly young kids who don't like what's going on and want to do something about it, and [they ask me] if I can give them some advice as to what they should do, or can I tell them what to read or something.

When one is not understood one should as a rule lower one's voice, because when one really speaks loudly enough and is not heard, it is because people do not want to hear. One had better begin to mutter to oneself, then they get curious.

People take conventional ways that other people have always decorated their cars, and use them as ways of giving other people permission to approach them.

Everybody knows that if they're happy then usually the people around them are happy, or that people around them happy make them a little happier; that's a proved thing, like "I give to you and you give to me"; they all know that but they haven't thought about it to the point of every action that they do. That's what it is with every action that you do, there's a reaction to it, and if you want a good reaction then you do a good action, and if you want a bad one, then you punch somebody.

People? People are chaotic quiddities living in one cave each. They pass the hours in amorous grudge and playback and thought experiment. At the campfire they put the usual fraction on exhibit, and listen to their own silent gibber about how they're feeling and how they're going down. We've been there. Death helps. Death gives us something to do. Because it's a fulltime job looking the other way.

After all, when you seek advice from someone it's certainly not because you want them to give it. You just want them to be there while you talk to yourself.

People are social beings and want interaction and social learning is the primary form of learning, just as word of mouth advertising is the highest form of advertising.

I always advise people never to give advice.