What is the best advice you have ever received?

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Recorded Joan Baez said elsewhere, not written here
The best advice I got from a painter friend of mine when I said, “If you had one thing to say to an aspiring artist like myself, what would you say?” And she said, “Make as many mistakes as you can.”

Krista Tippett, On Being, 26 November 2024 source ↗

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Andrew Lloyd Webber Composer of musical theatre
Harold Prince went to see it and he wrote me a letter saying don’t be discouraged about this because actually there’s some quite good songs in here. But he also said something which stayed with me all my life, which is that you can’t listen to a musical if you can’t look at it, by which he was actually saying that the designs for Jeeves were absolutely hideous.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, New York City, 13 September 2019 source ↗
Andrew Young Civil rights leader, US Ambassador to the United Nations, Mayor of Atlanta
Her lesson all the time was “To them to whom much has been given, of them will much be required.”
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, Washington, D.C., 14 August 2013 source ↗
The one thing that I learned from Clint, of the many things I learned from Clint, is to always trust your instinct, and don’t think about it too much.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, Washington, D.C., 22 June 2007 source ↗
David Hare Playwright and screenwriter
In life you can do whatever you want as long as you don’t complain when you pick up the bill.
Recorded Angela Wintle, This much I know, The Guardian, 17 February 2018 source ↗

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