Quotes About Mentorship

While a student in McCollum's class, Jobs became friends with a graduate who was the teacher's all- time favorite and a school legend for his wizardry in the class. Stephen Wozniak, whose younger brother had been on a swim team with Jobs, was almost five years older than Jobs and far more knowledgeable about electronics. But emotionally and socially he was still a high school geek.

I came to work with Steve for a week," Lin recalled.

People always ask me where they should go to work, and I always tell them to go to work for whom they admire the most.

It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.

When teachers are fully successful, they are successful beyond any of their conscious intentions about particular subjects: they make converts, they make souls that have been turned around to face a given way of being and moving in the world.

Your teacher might be a child who takes you by the hand and asks you a question that you hadn't considered before, and your answer to the child is your answer to yourself.

Just as we're all students throughout life, we're all teachers.

the effective leader guides others to their own nature.

See yourself as someone who's on this planet to assist others.

Cuando el alumno esté preparado aparecerá el maestro».

Navin, who never had children, felt close to Cobb from the day he met him, a nervous, travel-worn C-leaguer who had just lost his father under appalling circumstances. The two would excoriate (and extol) each other over the years as only a father figure and son-substitute could.

These children that come at you with knives--they are your children. You taught them. I didn't teach them. I just tried to help them stand up.

If manhood is passed down, if it is a mantle cut from the cloth of one and draped across another, it is not done so using titles or accolades. Not hardly. It occurs there—in that spout now resting neck-high—pouring down the spine and into the belly in a language that has never been transcribed, but that every boy on the planet understands and has always understood.

You shouldn't get into coaching unless you care about the people you're leading,

Bruce Lee was the guy you worshipped. Older Brother was the guy you dreamt of growing up to be.

Hey budding entrepreneurs, here is what you can do - Jump right in & make every mistake that everyone made before you when they jumped right in. Or, read up/study from those who have made the leap or work first for those currently leaping…

Lee's great gifts are teaching and inspirational guidance, not administration and management.

The father's job is to teach his children how to be warriors, to give them the confidence to get on the horse and ride into battle when it's necessary to do so. If you don't get that from your father, you have to teach yourself." "But—I think I have already,

Good fathers make good sons.

That teacher is most successful who makes herself progressively unnecessary to her pupils because she develops in them the power to do without her.

...teachers touch the future...

None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody — a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns — bent down and helped us pick up our boots.

The great teacher inspires — the others merely instruct.