Quotes About Mentorship

A manager is an assistant to his men.

Frank Capra was a prop man, I think. John Ford was a prop man. It was a little bit of a father and son thing, and you kind of worked your way up.

When a man teaches something he does not know to somebody else who has no aptitude for it, and gives him a certificate of proficiency, the latter has completed the education of a gentleman.

There would be no great ones, if there were no little ones.

Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion

What harsh judges fathers are to all young men!

Peter Ustinov was the first really positive influence in my career. He was real and he bore witness to it. The things he said to you, he lived them.

It is a great advantage for us to be able to consult someone who knows us, so that we may learn to know ourselves.

You teach what you want to learn.

As a boy all Steve wanted to do was to be like his dad. At twenty-nine he'd become like Bob and then some.

You and I will never flow in the anointing of Elisha until we have learned to serve an Elijah.

In the same way I have always regarded boxing as a first-class sport to encourage in the Young Men's Christian Association.

My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make.

Great men taken up in any way are profitable company. We cannot look, however imperfectly, upon a great man without gaining something by him.

Surely of all 'rights of man', this right of the ignorant man to be guided by the wiser, to be, gently or forcibly, held in the true course by him, is the indisputablest.

A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.

Let there be a patron like Maecenus, Flaccus, and your lands will give you a poet like Virgil

People still complain, however, as did St. Teresa of Avila four centuries ago, of the lack of knowledgeable spiritual guides. What should one do if he cannot find a competent director? It is my opinion that in the area of advancing prayer, as also in this matter of alleged communications, no direction is preferable to probably incompetent direction

I definitely will reach out to Cuban in the near future for advice going forward. Now that I'll be on the business side of things - and he's had a lot of success with that - that would be a guy to go to.

Nearly all of these Chinese girls that have had success have had coaching from foreign coaches.

The Boys and Girls club was basically a second home for me, and I always credit it with keeping me out of trouble. From the ages of 6 to 16, I was there nearly every day.

You're not really necessarily the coolest guy in their life. You are a conduit to the really cool people.

I have never said that there is no need for a guru. All depends on what you call guru. He need not be in a human form.

No matter how many years you have been dancing, I feel a guru is always needed for motivation and inspiration.