Dan Levy Quotes

We all have the temptation to be backseat drivers when it comes to decisions that don't work out the way we want.

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.

If you have a difficult message to deliver in any circumstance, it's always best to do it first up-front, and probably be a bit harder than you have to be because it's always easier to be nicer afterwards.

I don't give my advice unless it's asked for.

Everybody's so scared to be honest with one another. If you didn't like the way I handled myself in practice, one of the players, come up to me. Somebody say something - anybody. I'm not gonna take it as offense; it's not personal.

Advice is more agreeable in the mouth than in the ear.

If you say what you think don't expect to hear only what you like.

When you have confidence, when you feel loved by people, you can tell them the truth. It's important that I can say the photo isn't beautiful or the photo shoot sucks.

If you're going to say what you want to say, you're going to hear what you don't want to hear.

If you say hard things you must expect to hear them in return.

I make no manner of doubt that you threw a very diamond of truth at me, though you see it hit me so directly in the face that it wasn't exactly appreciated, at first.

When people are wrong, you've got to let them know it.

I'm not always the most diplomatic person.

It's funny when people say, 'I don't think Julia likes me.' Honey, if I don't like you, you're going to know about it.

My attitude is, if someone's going to criticize me, tell me to my face.

I don't want people kissing my butt. If I had a bad show and I know it, don't tell me I had a good show. I hate that. I guess because I'm 17, people think I don't see stuff like that.

Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.

The more famous you become, the less people will tell you your faults.

If it's anything I can't stand, it's yes-men. When I say no, I want you to say no, too.

People ask ... for criticism, but they only want praise.

The biggest problem is when a player asks a captain why he is not playing but does not want an honest answer.

It's always dangerous to prescribe an idea on other people.

At the beginning, I thought, 'Oh, I can't criticize a singer who's doing a role that I adored... even a role I didn't do.' And then I thought, 'The heck with that! Thirty years of experience... ask the girl who did it!' And I feel that if they're not willing to take what I have to say, that's fine! But I'm going to say it.

I'm going to get criticism in the future, I've had criticism in the past. Honestly, I genuinely don't care.

I spend a lot of time bathing in a glow of consensus but you also have to be willing to say something to people who might not agree with you and take the consequences of what follows.