Quotes About Influence

To have a drama teacher as a mentor was just like, 'Oh, what a gift.'

I have always had someone in my life that I consider my reading mentor because I come from a family where reading was not emphasized or even approved of.

Laurence Fishburne is my mentor.

I coach a couple players. But it's not a thing where I'm going to hide and be that perfect mentor. I just give them the best advice I can and live my life accordingly.

The mentor thing is overblown to me. I'm going to coach the player. I'm not going to have another player coach the player. They can be friends but when it comes to what I want him to do on the football field, that's my call, not another player's call.

After watching 'Pagal Nilavu' I decided Mani Ratnam should be my mentor and joined him.

Bob Clear, nobody's ever heard about except for some people who have been in the game, was probably my main mentor in the game of baseball.

Alex, AOC, Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez, she was a mentor from afar, even before I got to Congress.

I would love to be a mentor to many people who want to go into the political arena, teach them the art of winning elections.

I never had a mentor. God, it would have been nice, but I just didn't. I look up to Jane Campion. And my most favorite director Lynne Ramsay.

We can do a lot of different things as athletes - we can speak, we can mentor, we can coach.

Robert Gibbs has been a great mentor.

I am very much interested in getting parents to read to children, and trying to get people mentoring children. If I can do both I'll be happy.

Mentoring is an interesting job.

One of my mentors schooled me on branding before it was a cliche term in the game.

Z-Bo, Zach Randolph, is like my big brother - one of my mentors.

I loved Mia Hamm, and I really looked up to Julie Foudy as well, who is one of my mentors.

Context begins with other artists - seniors and mentors.

I've definitely had mentors, whether parents or friends or actors who I like.

And I'd watch George C. Scott from backstage. He was one of my mentors.

My mentors are people like Cameron Crowe and Carrie Fisher.

Obama might do well to remember that his fast rise from the Illinois state Senate was due in large part to an uncanny ability to make friends and find mentors.

I have, I think, eight mentors. It's crazy, but I need them. They are all really important to me. They keep me grounded and advise me.

I've had many mentors, but the one that has the most impact was my mother.