Never feel that a piece of criticism or advice is too much trouble to give, or that it exceeds your province.

I have been driven demented in my career.

I am much more intelligent than you think.

This is the war I fear.

The primary factor in a successful attack is speed.

I suppose you can say I became an odd-job man.

No one person invented Mulberry. The knowledge that we had to have this floating harbor slowly grew.

It never entered my father's mind nor my mind ever to do a job othe than at one's best ability.

Men o' war were to be a part of the fabric of my life for the next half-century.

Prince Charles is an absolute Mountbatten. The real intelligence in the royal family comes through my parents to Prince Philip and the children.

Here I am in my first command - a bit dazed but feeling very grand.

I was born with an ability to concentrate very hard on a job for a long time.

I believe firmly that it was the Almighty's goodness, to check my consummate vanity.

I was so keen to get back to sea. I was rattled.

Even that crazy lunatic, my aunt the Empress, wa absolutely sweet and charming.

You can divide my life into two.

It is a curious thing, but I have been right in everything I have done and said in my life.

My trophy value exceeded my military usefulness.

Churchill was the canny political animal, very devious, bursting with energy and determination, learning as hard as he could.

What do you do if you are asked to do a job, first by the Prime Minister, and then by the King? How can you refuse?

My mother said, Don't worry abot what people think now. Think about whether your children and grandchildren will think you've done well.

Never feel that a piece of criticism or advice is too much trouble to give, or that it exceeds your province.

The team should have implicit confidence in the captain's decisions.

In 1966 I became president of the British Computer Society.

I liked Truman very much. He was precise and businesslike. After a while, it was his turn.

My father was afraid of his father, I was afraid of my father, and I don't see why my children shouldn't be afraid of me.

I cant think of a more wonderful thanksgiving for the life I have had than that everyone should be jolly at my funeral.

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

I don't think a reporter should give advice or make predictions.

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

No enemy is worse than bad advice.

I'm not in the business of becoming famous. And that's the advice I give to younger aspiring actors. Work onstage and do the little roles. In the end it's not important to be seen. It's important to do. There's a lot of disappointment in this business, but my family keeps me grounded.

Listen kid, take my advice, never hate a song that has sold half a million copies.

My advice to young film-makers is this: don't follow trends, start them!

There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.

All of our affairs, since the union of crowns, have been managed by the advice of English ministers, and the principal offices of the kingdom filled with such men, as the court of England knew would be subservient to their designs.

To offer a man unsolicited advice is to presume that he doesn't know what to do or that he can't do it on his own.

But I try not to become preoccupied with that because with whatever direction I follow, with whatever advice I've followed or not followed, It's landed me in New York, in a very beautiful hotel, talking to people about something that I love. So I ain't that far off.

If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.

Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.

I never take advice from anyone more messed up than I am.

What advice do I tell my grandson? I listen to him.

It is not unprofessional to give free legal advice, but advertising that the first visit will be free is a bit like a fox telling chickens he will not bite them until they cross the threshold of the hen house.

This character in the film, these things that he says which sound like advice and wise things, they are very common for Orientals. It's all the tradition.

Never give advice in a crowd.

Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.

When your mother asks, "Do you want a piece of advice?" it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway.

I counseled many returning missionaries. I interviewed 1,700 missionaries all over the world. My advice to them is that you should study and prepare for your life's work in a field that you enjoy.