Quotes About Mentoring

There are lots of opportunities out there for women to work in these fields, ... Girls just need support, encouragement and mentoring to follow through with the sciences.

I think it's very hard for coaches to work with me. They'll no doubt have a good CV afterwards, but at the same time they're under a lot of pressure.

Some strive to make themselves great. Others help others see and find their own greatness. It's the latter who really enrich the world we live in

I take mentoring very seriously and as a result I hardly get any work done during the school year.

I guess I work well with others I handle younger actors well.

I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.

When you have somebody out there that's willing to work for the team first, that's contagious. In Phoenix, I learned that from Steve Nash, Grant Hill, so many different guys. When you're playing with somebody like Steve, like Grant, that just passes on to you.

When I lack confidence now, I channel a bit of Steve Owen and that transforms me.

Coaches often sting me to get the best of me. I am used to it.

I have often spoken about the importance of intentionality in philanthropy: that it has to stir the soul. This is true whether you are feeding the homeless, mentoring a child or working on climate change.

I won't lie, I stole a lot of ideas from Giampaolo.

Churches need to be intentional about reaching the next generation by creating templates for young people to see that there is a stepping stone for leadership in this church.

I tell all the rookies that come into our series and all the young drivers they can come ask me anything at any time, and we'll give them the straight shoot.

you'll never get dumber by making someone else smarter.

I want to work with kids and help develop them, show them the right way, the right morals and attitude into how to become a better footballer. Australia has many different cultures but I'd like to bring in the indigenous style, bring their competitiveness, athleticism and raw ability into the frame.

Kids don't do what you say. They do what they see. How you live your life is their example.

Jay Abraham is one of Daymond John's (page 323) mentors and the author of Getting Everything You Can Out of All You've Got, which is one of Ramit's most-gifted books. I often recommend Jay's work to people who ask about how to structure "JVs," or joint ventures.

Great men have almost always shown themselves as ready to obey as they afterwards proved able to command." —Lord Mahon If you want great mentors, you have to become a great mentee. If you want to lead, you have to first learn to follow.

There are two coaches who have had enormous impact on me in the last five years: Carolyn Coughlin at Cultivating Leadership and Jim Dethmer at Conscious Leadership.

If you get stuck and things don't improve, be willing to get outside help.

You work with every actor differently. It's like if you're a mother, if you have children, some children need more discipline. Other children, you back off of a little bit and let them be. It's the same way with actors. Some actors need a lot of hand holding. Other actors like to be let be, and you let them go.

What I think about is about the opportunities that Mike Shanahan gave me as an inexperienced coach. I think about watching a Kyle Shanahan work. Just seeing the stuff he was running, his approach to different scenarios, and getting another understanding of what you can do as an offense... all of that helped me grow.

It's okay to have personal ambitions, but you have to take someone with you.

Coaches can sometimes mollycoddle players too much - if they are good enough, then they are old enough.