[Describing the presidency:] No one in the country is more assailed by divergent advice and clamorous counsel.
It's a very stressful thing, directing a movie. You have the budget, you have the schedule, you are in certain confines, and you have everybody giving you advice about what to do.
I have received more advice than any man living—mostly bad.
There is something about a mortarboard that gives otherwise sane and normal people the overwhelming urge to burden you with advice. Some of them cannot help themselves. They were asked to do it by a committee. But one can only take so many pieces of wisdom before they all start to blur together.
Don't take too much advice.
Maybe, early on, I had too many coaches, with three or four guys all giving different input.
The supply of interpretations, like that of advice, greatly exceeds the need for them.
