Quotes About Mentoring

The child must teach the man.

I take mentoring very seriously and I am on the board of an organization called Girls Write Now, where we match teen girls and writing mentors because it changes their lives.

For a mind to even approach its full potential, it needs cultivation by other minds.

Allegri is a coach who speaks a lot.

IndieBio's capital, facilities and deep mentoring by a network of biotech specific experts have the potential to spawn the Google's, Facebook's and Instagram's of biology.

Listening sounds like a ridiculous characteristic for mentoring, but genuinely being invested and interested in people, meeting them for cups of coffee and spending time with people, and using the network I've been very lucky to build up to help others are all things I do to help others.

I try to develop others. I get a great deal of joy out of helping people who, over the years, I've spent a lot of time mentoring - and just trying to get them to another level.

People usually think that it is the coach who has to raise the spirits of his players; that it is the coach who has to convince his footballers; that it is his job to take the lead all the time. But that's not always the case.

The fact is that children get spoiled in bad company.

Ancelotti spoke to everyone as a person, not just in a coach-to-player way. That doesn't happen often in football.

A man I respected very early in my career told me, 'If you wanna truly be good at this, you have to learn to hate.'

Some of the best advice I've had comes from junior officers and enlisted men.

We must depend upon the Boy Scout Movement to produce the MEN of the future.

One of the great tragedies in human life is to be born a male and not be guided toward the value of a man.

He dons are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.

You save an old man and you save a unit; but save a boy, and you save a multiplication table.

It's better to build boys than mend men.

Give me a man with big hands and big feet and no brains and I'll make a golfer out of him.

The man who walks with wise men becomes wise himself.

There are men who teach best by not teaching at all.

As Richard Pryor was to Eddie Murphy, that's what Kurt Vonnegut was to me.

I had a lot of great bosses - I worked for Gina Prince-Bythewood for two years, I worked for Ava Duvernay as a PA on her first narrative film, and I worked with Mara Brock Akil, so a lot of wonderful role models.

My work at NASA has always been about team efforts, and so it's intrinsically about mentoring. I have been blessed with some brilliant colleagues who were able to take on huge challenges without a lot of guidance.

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.