Quotes About Mentorship

Questioner: What's the best thing I can do for my awakening? Adyashanti: Be with an enlightened teacher and listen.

Sincere students find sincere teachers, and sincere teachers find sincere students. The two go together like a box and its lid. (p. 108)

His attitude was that in order to train his assistant directors it was worth sacrificing his own pictures. At least, that seems to me the only possible interpretation.

Yet the same Yama-san who educated us in this exceptional manner made the following claim in a magazine once: "All I ever taught Kurosawa was how to drink." How is it possible to express one's gratitude to someone so selfless?

Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution.

With my own pupils now I always try to remember the value of encouragement. Sometimes a callow youth appears who may be a fool or may be a genius and I would rather be guilty of encouraging a fool than of discouraging a genius.

Sergeant Meredith was the one who'd taught him how to survive. Sergeant Meredith was the one who'd given him his nickname. Sergeant Meredith was the one who had listened when Ray had argued for the Okinawans. Sergeant Meredith was the one who had taught Ray how to grieve for the death of a soldier.

The key to finding a terrific mentor is not to pursue someone who is at the very top of the profession, but to find someone who two years ago was where you are now. He or she will be most familiar with your current situation, and have relevant, timely experiences and perspective to share.

Yes, I was actually an acting teacher for a while.

So you're dealing with a coach, and you're dealing with a guy who's actually experienced NBA basketball from a player's perspective and actually goes about it that way.

Peter Kaplan was a partner, a mentor, and a friend.

One person who has taught me a lot and inspired me a lot was Peter Falk. I was fortunate enough to have worked with him in this movie called 'Vig.' He brought my work to a place where it literally shouldn't have been for another two or three years.

When you get to work with people like Ian McKellen or directors like Peter Jackson, you sit and watch.

Peter Kaplan was a giant.

To be able to get a young player to perform a drill or execute a phase of play - that's satisfying. I get happy and think he's learned, and that's what I enjoy.

The late Roy Jenkins was both a mentor and a personal friend. He was a man of both phenomenal intellect and political achievement in equal measure.

Look at Becker and Djokovic. If you look at Novak's record since Boris has been there, it's been phenomenal.

Ava DuVernay is my personal Phil Jackson. She's a perfect coach.

Phil Neville has been great in terms of the pointers he has given me.

Getting somebody like Phil Jackson to come in and build the team is sort of like getting Einstein to help you with your math homework.

Guys like Philip Seymour Hoffman or Sam Rockwell are the guys I look up to and have the kind of career I'd like to emulate.

I grew up - obviously I'm from Philly, where Kobe is from, so we grew up idolizing Kobe. He meant everything to us.

I worked among many famous philosophers, and I tried to observe how they treated students. I knew which ones I wanted to be like, and which ones I didn't.

An Indian captain is a friend, guide, philosopher to the players under him.