Quotes About Mentorship

it's good to have female or minority role models. But the important thing is to have mentors who care about you, and they come in all colors.

There is no greater ordeal for a gifted men than to raise a son

Egerton taught her how to approach a challenging book. She should read and reread slowly, making marginal notes when she came across something important, and mark things she didn't understand. He instructed her to think over each evening what she had read that day and jot down her ideas about it. She was a willing and eager pupil

I've always kind of lived my life to be as much as possible a positive role model for children.

Without someone speaking into your life and keeping you on track with the things you believe, you have a tendency to drift into habitual sin- and you recognize this about yourself.

Someone said that if you're lonely at the top, it's because you didn't take anyone with you.

As Elijah's mantle fell on Elisha and as other prophetic disciples sought to emulate their mentors, so the ascending Jesus empowered his church with the Spirit to carry on his mission to the ends of the earth (1:9–11).

Some day, you might soar like an eagle, but for now, let me try to teach you how to flap your wings.

A teacher's job is to take a bunch of live wires and see that they are well-grounded.

Oh well, that's what he did. He's very interested in boys. He used to go down to the club in the evening and chat to the boys; he taught them to play badminton and helped them to produce plays. They did carpentry and photography—all that sort of thing, you know,' said Mr. Baird vaguely. 'Of course latterly, when he was ill, he wasn't able to go, but I managed to find a man to run the place for him and I hear things are going on quite satisfactorily.

I'm used to being coached. Something I learned long ago is that a coach is trying to make you better and to be the best version of yourself.

I joke that I've always had this sort of insatiable 'big sis' complex - which is odd given that I am the baby of the family with no sisters! It's the reason I have such a powerful desire to connect with girls and encourage them. So, it's a natural fit for me to have a job that's like the editorial version of an older sister to a million girls.

I definitely have been very mindful of what kind of leader and creator I want to be. A lot of that has to with looking at the writers that you work with. They're all like your children. They all need love, but different versions of it.

No matter what color you are, if you mentor some little boy or girl, you make a huge difference in their lives because they then model behavior that leads to success versus modeling behavior that doesn't.

My biggest mentor has been the Benchmark partnership. We have six partners and a flat structure, and everyone is paid the exact same paycheck. It's a team model versus an individual model.

To be honest my mentor was my mom and dad. I was very blessed and fortunate to have parents like I had.

My first job is big sister and I take that very seriously.

My father passed away when I was very young, so I was head of household for a very long time. Whether it came to cooking food or having to braid hair to get kids out of the door for school, I've been one that has - with the help of my mother - has been a father figure for a lot of young ladies.

I've been the captain of my wrestling team, my college team, so to me, I've been in that leadership role for a very long time.

Steve Blake is a great vet, but when I'm sitting behind him it's just like, c'mon, guys.'

The great players always have that one older player, that one vet they competed against who was older.

Being around veteran leaders such as CC Sabathia and Brett Gardner really helped me.

Karl Malone used a lot of veteran stuff that I thought was cool. Charles Barkley taught me a lot when I played against him. How he would use his body or use his dribble to get people in there and all that stuff. Veteran moves.

For me to stay in basketball, it would just have to be a veteran team.