Quotes About Mentoring

My teachers made me what I am today. I remember they used to instill confidence in me and stress on remaining focused.

I hope to be remembered for mentoring the future generation of stuntmen and fighting for the rights and respect that stuntmen and stuntwomen deserve for their contribution to the world of moviemaking.

We are constantly reminding them that they are in a competition. I had a word with all my contestants and I know Kelly Rowland had a word with hers. It's reality check time.

We're having to spend a lot of time teaching our entrepreneurs how to teach and, I tell you, it isn't easy and that's why we should have an immense amount of respect for our teachers.

Our Party attaches great importance to the work with young people and firmly believes in them.

Some players are more fortunate than others to have coaches who are more focused on improvement.

When you go through the youth system you're always going in to do analysis work, looking at every way of improving and your coaches are always on top of you.

I consciously make an effort to get to know some of the women who may be in the middle of the organization - they're not at senior management levels - and try to figure out whether there's a new opportunity they can take on that enables them to shine and succeed in a way they may not have in the past.

I had some really incredible people who mentored me and gave me things I never got from my parents.

There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own.

I became a teacher again, a teacher who finally understood that there's only so much you can teach. The excellence lives in the students themselves. The excellence is theirs alone to give.

Leaders are made rather than born.

The principle behind discipleship does involve one person influencing another, which does result in a change in heart and mind.

If you want to kill giants, hang around a giant killer. It rubs off.

As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.

One of the duties of all of us—parents, scientists, everyone—is to help educate the next generation, so they can succeed in their lives and help make the world a better place.

Seriously, I don't know if people would really tell you this. But in my dream world, the people who work for you would say, 'Wow, I didn't know I could do that until I started working with that guy.'

I think the most dangerous influence for a young writer is to be treated with cynicism or discouragement.

When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's when I first gained an appreciation of the Harlem Renaissance, a time when African-Americans rose to prominence in American culture. For the first time, they were taken seriously as artists, musicians, writers, athletes, and as political thinkers.

The great thing about Nashville back in the day was that the old guys hung out where the young guys were. The established writers like Harlan Howard and Jack Clement gave us encouragement and passed the guitar, you know? Chet Atkins let me sit in on his sessions. Everybody was good to us, and everybody loved the music.

Working with a guy like Ice Cube on 'Ride Along,' you learn so much. He's a guy who produces, writes, and directs, so you watch and learn and ask questions. As you go, you learn and figure out what you should and shouldn't do. I do nothing but soak up information.

Our job as friends, mentors, parents, and writing coaches is not to write anyone's college essay. That's cheating. Plus, it sends a discouraging message to the teenager that he or she can't be trusted with this important assignment. Trust the student to write the essay, but verify that it gets done. Gentle editing and proofreading are allowed.

Humility is the key to finishing well and passing the torch on to our successors.

You have to be able to psychologically help your players, support-wise, be in touch with them, so I think managing people is very important.