Quotes About Mentoring

Culture is an instrument wielded by teachers to manufacture teachers, who, in their turn, will manufacture still more teachers.

I think every manager has that, the so-called hairdryer treatment when things need a little turnaround.

Philip Roth has been a huge influence on me. The early books I read in my teens and twenties.

I know so many players who say they wouldnt entertain coaching, until they retire that is, and then they want to take their coaching badges. I suspect this might happen with David Beckham.

I cheat my boys every chance I get, I want to make 'em sharp.

If you treat men the way they are you never improve them. If you treat them the way you want them to be, you do.

Well, you better learn fast. You've got about as much charm as a dead slug," says Haymitch.

Twirltongue has been coaching him," Gregor thought. "Putting ideas in his head. Teaching him how to say them. And now he believes it all.

The thing is, don't get me wrong, I still love scoring and I hate to lose but now I see myself more as making players play better. Sometime you do what you have to do and you have to perform, that is still there, but in my mind I am thinking about making the guys around me play better and that is never an easy thing to do.

If there is a really good player at U16 level who disrespects the coach, if you then say: 'You can go somewhere else then. That is not how we do things here.' That would be powerful.

I'm not particularly good at anything. I'm not an incredible guitarist or piano player or songwriter. I think what I do is, when I notice someone is really good at something, I try to get that out of them.

Volunteering knows no divides and there is equal value in sorting food at the food bank, mentoring school children, and serving on a nonprofit board.

As a manager, you have to sow a seed of imagination in your players.

I taught her to fly, and she began to soar.

Who among your acquaintances, a. encourages you most b. cautions you most c. discourages you most d. helps you most in other ways

I've tried to take the opportunity to be as positive a person as I can be, as positive role model as I can be.

I think that in the Christian community, we're lacking a lot of things, and I don't know that it's just children's role models.

We need role models in our society that the youth can look up to because that space is shrinking.

I've had some very strong female role models, so I think that's an important thing.

People need role models, and they need to feel that there's this opportunity to learn. They need to have people that will stick up for them. I want to be a part of that.

We need to have our children look up to real role models.

Many women in politics say they had very few, if any, female role models.

The modern world is about knowledge and it's our job as mums to help our daughters.

I met Quincy Jones in Seattle. We were kids together... liked each other when we met and have been close ever since. He wasn't writing when we met - in fact, I more or less started him off to write; voicing, harmony, and stuff like that.