Quotes About Mentoring

In almost any profession, even if you're the kid of an actor, people are very supportive and want to see the next generation.

I love 'Project Runway' because I can really be of help to an industry and I can be supportive to designers.

Business is just like sports: if you're the best in the group that you run in, you're never going to get any better. It's the same thing in business. I surround myself with people who are smarter than me and have more experience than me, and I have gotten a lot of great advice.

Train those around you well, Pug. Make them powerful, but make them loving, generous men and women as well.

The Jesuit boast, 'Give me the child for his first seven years, and I'll give you the man,' is no less accurate (or sinister) for being hackneyed.

There's nothing wrong with being a genius who can fascinate the young. Rather, there's something wrong with the young who can't be fascinated by a genius.

Man's most human characteristic is not his ability to learn, which he shares with many other species, but his ability to teach and store what others have developed and taught him.

If boys don't learn, men won't know.

Small boys become big men through the influence of big men who care about small boys.

The young man taught all he knew and more; The middle-aged man taught all he knew; The old man taught all that his students could understand.

I always tell people that I was fortunate I was able to come in with a group of men. We didn't come into the game with a group of boys. We were young then. So your cats keep you in check.

Nothing is so beneficial to a young author as the advice of a man whose judgment stands constitutionally at the freezing-point.

I believe that close association with one who refuses to compromise with circumstances he does not like, is an asset that can never be measured in terms of money.

I never had children, never even thought I would have children. Now I have 152 daughters; expecting 75 more next year. That is some type of gestation period.

Your choice of people to associate with, both personally and business-wise, is one of the most important choices you make. If you associate with turkeys, you will never fly with the eagles.

As you move through life, set aside good ideas and give them to others to encourage and inspire.

The foundations of any subject may be taught to anybody at any age in some form.

Within each individual young person you meet, you have the same fields to plough. The trick is just to wake them up, to sharpen their ears for what's already there in the music.

We're genuinely happy if some musicians of this younger generation are influenced by our music, as we were ourselves influenced 10 years ago by older musicians.

Men take on the nature and the habits and the power of thought of those with whom they associate in a spirit of sympathy and harmony.

Is it some law of human nature that you inevitably become whatever your first commander was?

Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.

Children have empty erasable white boards upon which big people write indelibly imprinted messages into their tender subconscious minds.

Kid's don't care how many sermons you preach to them. The only sermon they'll hear is how you live your life in front of them.