Brenda Ueland Quotes

The price of telling your troubles is having to listen to advice.

I majored in psychology, and I still love listening to people's problems.

When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him.

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

I am oftentimes the ear for some people that I know and love. Which I like being. I don't know if I'd like being a marriage counselor, though, because that's too deep for me.

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

It's hard to give advice. There are so many people, how do you give major advice to a group of people, it's very presumptuous.

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.

Women don't like advice. They don't want you to fix their problems, they just want you to listen.

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 tend to empathize with people, just in general.

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

The fellowship of true friends who can hear you out, share your joys, help carry your burdens, and correctly counsel you is priceless.

A lot of my friends ask me for advice.

I listen. I like to give advice. Mostly, Ill just try to listen to my friends, and theyll say the same thing over and over again.

I still love listening to people's problems. I'm still good at giving people unsolicited advice.

There are no kinder or better people in the world than those who listen to you when you are 18.

A friend is more concerned about helping people than getting credit. A friend cares. A friend loves. A friend listens. And a friend reaches out.

Most of us are experts at solving other people's problems, but we generally solve them in terms of our own and the advice we give is seldom for other people but for ourselves.

The desire of advising has a very extensive prevalence; and, since advice cannot be given but to those that will hear it, a patient listener is necessary to the accommodation of all those who desire to be confirmed in the opinion of their own wisdom: a patient listener, however, is not always to be had; the present age, whatever age is present, is so vitiated and disordered, that young people are readier to talk than to attend, and good counsel is only thrown away upon those who are full of their own perfections.

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 want to give advice but can't take it themselves.

People do not want advice - they want corroboration.

I feel like I'm treating people as I'd like to be treated.

It's important, too, for people to see that it only takes one person to have faith in you, to care about you, to make you feel changed. We should all help each other out and give love to everyone as much as possible.