Quotes About Mentorship

Our chief want in life is someone who shall make us do what we can.

for everyone of us that succeeds, its because there's somebody there to show you the way out

For the first time in his life, a teacher was pointing out things that Ender had not already seen for himself. For the first time, Ender had found a living mind he could admire.

For the first time, Ender had found a living mind he could admire.

Then, as Father had trained him, Rigg thought past his feelings.

Graff had deliberately set him up to be separate from the other boys, made it impossible for him to be close to them. And he began now to suspect the reasons behind it. It wasn't to unify the rest of the group—in fact, it was divisive. Graff had isolated Ender to make him struggle. To make him prove, not that he was competent, but that he was far better than everyone else.

My job isn't to be friends. My job is to produce the best soldiers in the world. In the whole history of the world. We need a Napoleon. An Alexander. Except that Napoleon lost in the end, and Alexander flamed out and died young. We need a Julius Caesar, except that he made himself dictator, and died for it. My job is to produce such a creature, and all the men and women he'll need to help him. Nowhere in that does it say I have to make friends with children.

teach, I teach, but no one learns. You, too, have great promise, like so many students before you

Never tire to study. And to teach to others

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

Walking among three people, I find my teacher among them. I choose that which is good in them and follow it, and that which is bad and change it.

The one who teaches is the giver of eyes.

You yourself desire rank and standing; then help others to get rank and standing. You want to turn your merits to account; then help others to turn theirs to account.

When you see a person of worth, concentrate upon becoming their equal.

The Master said, "In strolling in the company of just two other persons, I am bound to find a teacher. Identifying their strengths, I follow them, and identifying their weaknesses, I reform myself accordingly.

Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.

She egged me on to poetry and reading: in a way, she made a man of me. I read and I thought like a house on fire, for her.

He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher. -from Song of Myself

During the crossing, Einstein explained his theory to me every day, and by the time we arrived I was fully convinced that he really understands it.

Ed Woolard, his mentor on the Apple board, pressed Jobs for more than two years to drop the interim in front of his CEO title. Not only was Jobs refusing to commit himself, but he was baffling everyone by taking only $1 a year in pay and no stock options. "I make 50 cents for showing up," he liked to joke, "and the other 50 cents is based on performance.

Fred Terman, un antiguo estudiante de doctorado de Vannevar Bush en el MIT que después sería decano de ingeniería de la Universidad de Stanford

Publicity whiz who guided Jobs early on and remained a trusted advisor.

There Paul tried to pass along his love of mechanics and cars. "Steve, this is your workbench now," he said as he marked off a section of the table in their garage.

Ive grew up in Chingford, a town on the northeast edge of London. His father was a silversmith who taught at the local college. "He's a fantastic craftsman," Ive recalled. "His Christmas gift to me would be one day of his time in his college workshop, during the Christmas break when no one else was there, helping me make whatever I dreamed up.