Quotes About Mentoring

Kids are kids. They still need handholding. No matter how trained they are, they need to be told what to do. They need to learn lines and understand blocking. You can't just say, 'I want you to walk from here to there and deliver your line.'

Who shaped me the most was Thomas Tuchel. For the simple reason that he was my own trainer and the exchange was so much more intense. I can rate how he really thinks.

Women in business are talented leaders who can share their skills as trainers, mentors and advocates.

It's hard to find trainers to train, coaches to coach. Just because someone was great in the business doesn't mean they can teach someone else how to be great in the business; and just because someone wasn't great in the business, doesn't mean they can't teach somebody. I used to be a firm believer in the other.

No one ever really taught me anything. I am not being disrespectful to my trainers but they just wanted me to go out there and 'get em Nige.'

You give to get. Whether it's helping someone or training a kid, I believe you will be rewarded in some way.

If we don't invest now in so-called priority neighbourhoods with music classes, athletic facilities, and skills training and mentoring, we will all pay more in the long run.

Think about the most successful coaches in sports. What did they all have in common? It wasn't their knowledge of X's and O's. It was their ability to lead, motivate and manage - traits you need no matter what or where you coach.

I cannot transfer my abilities to anyone, but I can think of quicker ways with which to help people develop numerical aptitude.

I am much more a pitch manager than a general manager. I am one of the few managers who is bored by the transfer market. Our task is growing the players that we have.

I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.

Yo no puedo enseñarle nada a nadie, tan sólo puedo incitarle a pensar

Gustavo Solivellas dice: "No puedo enseñar nada a nadie. Solo puedo hacerles pensar" (Sócrates)

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

Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterwards.

The idea of being able to serve as an example, based upon how to process, how to think, how to realize our own dreams, we can pass that down to our children.

How you coach them is how they're going to play.

Consider telling those you teach that no matter how it feels to the new knitter, a dropped stitch has never actually caused stroke, heart failure, or a world war.

Does coaching work? Yes. Good coaches provide a truly important service. They tell you the truth when no one else will.

Good players want to be coached. Great players want to be told the truth.

Teaching is the best way to learn.

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

I'm prepared to mentor any political group, even PAP chaps can come to me, I'll still mentor them. Because the objective must be very clear: you want to train people who will be good MPs. MPs who will think of Singapore first.

Lots of young singers come to me and ask, 'May I sing to you?' I say, 'Yes, you can sing to me as long as you don't mind what I tell you, because I'm not going to flatter you. I'm going to tell you what I think.' Oh, yes, they're quite happy about that, until they hear it.