Quotes About Mentors

When we're called to eat, Haymitch pounces on me immediately. "So at least half the victors have instructed their mentors to request you as an ally. I know it can't be your sunny personality." "They saw her shoot," says Peeta with a smile.

The main student body had been told to report at a quarter to eight, so the early birds consisted of the active mentors and a few Avoxes tidying the hall.

I had great mentors in my parents who always sought to understand the world around them. And they would push me to really think things through.

associate with people whose mental attitudes inspire you with enthusiasm, self-confidence, determination, and ambition.

People take on the nature and the habits and the power of thought of those with whom they associate in a spirit of sympathy and harmony.

It is not good for man to cherish a solitary ambition. Unless there be those around him, by whose example he may regulate himself, his thoughts, desires, and hopes will become extravagant, and he the semblance, perhaps the reality, of a madman

Growing up, I really didn't have a lot of role models.

What our children are missing today are good role models.

I don't think kids should have role models. They're disastrous.

The two contemporary writers whom I consider as role models are Janet Malcolm and Michael Lewis.

When I was young, I was looking for people to look up to - role models I could respect.

Role models should be people that you know. Like your mum.

I've found that having role models and mentors who I resonate with is so important - a lot of people have so many questions and may not know where to go to get answers or may not have someone who can relate enough to even answer in the first place.

Some people shun the idea of role models but I think it's one of the most important things people have in life - role models, to look up to.

When you're young, stay active no matter what you do, and look up to positive role models.

I have a lot of role models.

I lacked role models so badly when I was growing up.

There is a great book out called 'Everything I Needed to Learn I Learned in Kindergarten,' and I believe that everything I ever needed to learn on guitar was in my first two years of hungry learning: Scotty Moore, Hank Marvin, Chet Atkins, Lenny Breau, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley.

I always have someone to look up to, and I think it helps me with motivating myself.

In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.

I don't have to trust my instructors—I just have to learn from them.

Children have more need of models than of critics.

Mentors have a way of seeing more of our faults that we would like. It's the only way we grow.

Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves.