Quotes About Mentoring

The best way to find a balance between doing your best and showing that you're ready for more is by developing other people. As tempting as it is to hoard knowledge, don't. Instead, make certain that there are others who know how to do important aspects of your job.

When you speak of role models, when we talk to our kids, everybody is a role model, everyone, just as you look at a Michael Jordan to be the terrific athlete he is.

I've always said I aspire to follow the likes of John Terry, Michael Dawson and Rio Ferdinand. I always watch what they do and try and learn from them.

Two different styles of leadership. LeBron, very encouraging, bringing everybody along, and Kobe, he's testing you, seeing what you gonna give him. If he gonna get at you, he gonna scream at you, he gonna cuss, he gonna do whatever it is. He had his own way of leading guys as well. It's two different sides. I'm just blessed to see both of them.

There is no recipe to be a great teacher, that's what is unique about them.

Los buenos escritores necesitan a los malos escritores aunque sólo sea como lectores o como escuderos.

inside every senior tech officer was a junior tech officer who'd been on a short leash for a long time.

If I teach you reading and writing, I'm warning you I've got to hit you on the head and call you bad names when you're stupid, because that's how you do teaching.

Luckily, one of my teachers got me started on Plutarch and Montaigne.

young minds cannot be driven…

If he is old enough to ask the question he is old enough to receive true answers. I am not putting the thoughts into his head, but helping him unfold those already there. These children are wiser than we are, and I have no doubt the boy understands every word I have said to him. Now, Demi, tell me where you keep your mind.

One can't prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person. If a man is keen on reading, I think he ought to open his mind to some older man who knows him and his life, and to take his advice in the matter, and above all, to discuss with him the first books that interest him.

Maybe one of the qualities of being a great coach is being [a jerk]. There are quite a few of them around.

It's not about rugby, it's about young men. It's not about building a championship team, it's about building championship boys. Boys who will be forever strong.

A warrior's mission is to foster the success of others.

Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.

True success comes only when every generation continues to develop the next generation.

If you're lucky enough to have done well, then it's your responsibility to send the elevator back down.

I've been blessed to find people who are smarter than I am, and they help me to execute the vision I have.

There is no success without a successor.

When you need advice- do you seek someone who has proven success or do you get advice from people who have never achieved what you desire?

The boys teach; the Scoutmaster tests.

Every thought I have is colored by what I learned by what I learned from reading Ray Bradbury.

Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.