Quotes About Mentorship

Bobby Cox had the biggest influence in my career and probably the second- or third-biggest influence in my life.

You'd be hard pressed to find elite achievers who don't have coaches helping them in key areas of their life.

As a young boy you gave me whoopings to save my life.

Bill Parcells is a life changer

Loving fathers give their children guidance on how to deal with all the hard things in life.

I believe my father has and always will be the strongest influence in my life, as he has guided me on many paths.

Pandit Pran Nath has given much of his later life to America and Europe and has influenced many of our younger composers.

A digital mentor has fewer errors, without distinctions; contrarily, a physical mentor has higher mistakes and errors, even with distinctive intuition and insight.

A digital mentor has fewer errors, without distinctions; contrarily, a physical mentor has uttermost mistakes and errors, even with distinctive intuition and insight.

Become a motivator of writing, not the butcher of it; similarly, become an editor, not the copy editor.

A life coach does for the rest of your life what a personal trainer does for your health and fitness.

The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

Professor [John] Tyndall once said the finest inspiration he ever received was from an old man who could scarcely read. This man acted as his servant. Each morning the old man would knock on the door of the scientist and call, 'Arise, Sir: it is near seven o'clock and you have great work to do today.

The teacher was still alive, so he sought her out and asked the old but still alert lady what magic formula she had used to pull these boys out of the slums into successful achievement. The teacher's eyes sparkled and her lips broke into a gentle smile. "It's really very simple," she said. "I loved those boys.

If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.

I learned everything from Bruce Lee. – Jackie Chan

Ask the experienced rather than the learned.

Research shows that children do better in school and are less likely to drop out when fathers are involved. Engaged parents can strengthen communities, mentor and tutor students, and demonstrate through their actions how much they value their children's education.

I aimed to be a leader someday, but I knew it was important to learn obedience as well.

So what do the young hotshots need? Old people on product teams, old people in marketing, and old people in the C-suite. They need not just whiz-bang ideas but actual wisdom that only comes with years in the school of hard knocks.

Devote the back half of your life to serving others with your wisdom.

he found himself dispensing wisdom more than knowledge—advice about life and leadership.

I have always been a fixer. I am a fixer. I like problems, and I like puzzles, and I like to help people, so I have been a fixer, and I have always been an educator.