Quotes About Mentoring

Teachers are special individuals with unique abilities.

I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.

Teachers are the greatest inspiration for a young mind in an ever-changing world...

Who needs advice most, usually likes it least.

All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.

The ultimate leader is one who is willing to develop people to the point that they surpass him or her in knowledge and ability.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

We must first positively influence and lead ourselves before we can positively influence or lead others.

Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.

Learning suits youth, the pleasure of teaching--old age.

For every person who wants to teach there are approximately thirty people who don't want to learn--much.

My dad was more, "Let's play chess. Read a book, you're stupid." He's more the intellectual type.

When I was a kid growing up, my dad being a football coach, he asked the same question of all the assistants that he ever hired: 'Is your goal to be a head football coach?

It is not that you give birth to a child that matters most. Rather, it is what you birth into them.

Let's have an honest conversation about what's going on. A man and a man at a bar looks like mentoring. A man and a woman at a bar looks like dating.

When I was a child, I first thought that these shades might be malevolent spirits who fostered evil in those people around whom they swarmed. I've since discovered that many human beings need no supernatural mentoring to commit acts of savagery; some people are devils in their own right, their telltale horns having grown inward to facilitate their disguise.

And so you should." He again assessed the newly replaced windows and repaired roof, then clapped Mack on the shoulder. "It's a good thing you're doing. And if you take time to share your knowledge with the boys, it'll give them much more than a skill. It'll give them hope.

Each coach you have gives a little something to every player, but the one who changed my game the most was Mancini. He taught me to play more outside the area, dropping me back a bit.

A coach's role, effectively speaking, is to stay in the background and let the onus be on the players.

Emerging actors know there's a whole lot to learn each time they are spending with someone who's done a lot.

I think I'm fascinated with empowering the shy kids.

Young people need a boosting up really, a bit more encouraging and less looking down on them.

There is nothing wrong with assistants who are constantly learning from outside ministers. But there is something very wrong when these associates never seem to learn from their own pastors.