Josh Billings Quotes

It's always fun when people ask you for advice.

There are a lot of people who will come to me for advice or whatever.

A lot of my friends ask me for advice.

My job is about playing people. And I think once you lose touch with people, what do you play?

If someone needs help, I can offer advice. I'm not always right and people don't always listen.

I mean, I try to say the right things and give the right advice. But still, I'm only a person.

We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice.

Players would empty their souls to me; you cannot fathom the stories I've heard, everything from the good to the bad. I tried whatever I could to work things out.

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

I don't believe in giving advice.

I'm not a very good advice-giver.

I've had lots of good advice.

I try to avoid giving advice.

Judgment of the people in the situation is not helpful. How can you help them is the question.

The most challenging part of being a dad is self-restraint. So often your instinct is to teach and tell. I am constantly reminding myself to listen to them.

You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need you. They need your actual person: your physical personhood and your open minds and open ears and boundless compassion, sitting next to them, listening and nodding and asking questions for hours at a time.

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

My wife tells me I need to learn to be more patient with my son.

I'm a darned good listener.

I want to be a mom who listens.

Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.

People call me and they want talk, they need to get something off their mind, I got all the time in the world for them.

I give advice to anybody who asks.

My mother would be the person all of my friends would go to for advice.

Sometimes, the best thing to do is just to sit down and listen to another person's experience and listen how they express themselves and want to be seen by others.