Quotes About Mentoring

From playing with the guys that I played with, Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce, I learned a lot about the game. I learned how to finish games.

Any female who thinks that she needs a female in front of her in order to learn as much as she can, or to envision a career in a particular field, has declared herself a follower rather than a pioneer - and a follower based on a characteristic irrelevant to intellectual achievement.

When I was twelve, Uncle Randall looked up long enough to see that I was a reader as well, so he walked me down his hall to a linen-closet door and opened it up onto a wall of paperbacks. There were books behind books, as deep in as I could reach. He told me to take three, and when I was done, bring them back and take three more.

Years ago, as I was beginning my professional career on Wall Street, I volunteered as a Big Brother in New York City.

By pushing children and wanting quick success, parents are producing followers, not leaders.

I have been inspired by the way that Ken Clarke has navigated parliament. I am actively looking across the House for people I really respect and warm to and can learn things from.

The Function of Leadership is to produce more Leaders, Not more Followers.

The cardinal virtue of a teacher (is) to protect the pupil from his own influence

A coach yells at the kid he thinks can improve but the coach will not yell at the kid who he/she knows won't.

A professor's job is to teach students how to see their minds growing

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I want to teach. I've got to figure a way to continue doing this in some capacity.

When you're captain you get involved in a lot of things. You're trying to get the best out of players and subconsciously, without knowing, it gets to you.

A captain sees you differently from the way you see yourself. You need a captain who can push you.

Even when I was playing, I was captain of the club pretty young and then I made sure I was always talking to the coaches and talking to people about other aspects of the game, not just playing it.

But the art of management has not changed. The art of it is still 80 to 90 per cent man-management. It is just a matter of getting the best out of what you have got.

I seek out a lot of advice from other CEOs.

Give kids the chance to be champions.

Even the superstars need to be coached once in awhile.

The more experience you have, the less is needed, but I feel like I have good support around me and people helping me to be the best I can be.

A rookie coach must be supported by a very strong structure and not get burned.

I am not a supporter of juniors increasingly going to top clubs.

Whatever the reason, we are not doing a good enough job getting to women early enough in their careers, supporting them, and enabling them to pursue careers in directing.

I think I'm a very very nice director. Very supportive, very nurturing. I definitely try to challenge my actors but I think I'm very supportive.