Quotes About Mentoring

He doesn't teach you what to think. He teaches you how to think.

Good equippers do like Jesus did it: recruit twelve, graduate eleven, and focus on three.

The instruction of inexperienced young men is one of life's unrivaled pleasures.

Robert Frost: "Now when I am old my teachers are the young.

You might have heard the old saying "Give someone a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach someone to fish, and you feed him for the rest of his life." The same holds true for life itself. If you give someone an answer, a rule, a principle, you help him solve one problem. But if you teach him to walk with God, well then, you've helped him solve the rest of his life. You've helped him tap into an inexhaustible

People who teach you cram old ideas, old views, old ways, into you. Like covering plants with layer after layer of old earth; it's no wonder the poor things so rarely come up fresh and green.

The minds of young people are pliable and elastic, and easily accommodate themselves to any one they fall in with.

Consciously or not, all parents act in ways that encourage their children to follow in their footsteps.

I discovered that great men were willing to share their ideas. And I was learning so much. You can learn only if others are ahead of you.

Our attitude towards ourselves should be 'to be satiable in learning' and towards others 'to be tireless in teaching.

Better untaught than ill-taught.

You think you're a role model, and they (protégés)turn around and tell you you're a negative role model.

Arrogance pedantry and dogmatism are the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.

By learning you will teach by teaching you will learn.

I have spoken with many former athletes, and they tell me the best time they had was in sports. I listen to them and use their experience in my career.

It's fair to say that if you have a lot of experience, your power is greater. You have more of an opportunity to roll up your sleeves with younger directors.

For a person to be truly discipled and growing in their faith, they need more than one person discipling them.

Chirone amava insegnare non attraverso lezioni vere e proprie ma attraverso le opportunità che si presentavano di volta in volta.

Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher.

I wanted to give you advice. Adults are always doing that; it's one of their occupational hazards.

Our attitude towards ourselves should be to be satiable in learning and towards others to be tireless in teaching.

Institutional leaders will need to seek out "reverse mentors" among (often younger) individuals who can help them understand and master edge practices.

What it comes down to, I believe, is that mentoring often involves telling people what they need to hear, rather than what they want to hear. When you are able to be humbly honest with someone about a situation with which you have personal experience—even if you risk angering or hurting that person—you are offering the most valuable gift of all.

Solid respect without fear is what I was after. I wanted them to believe in themselves without being self-centered, intimidated or naive.