Quotes About Mentorship

As eagles fly with eagles, the great walk with the great.

Teachers are students inside out.

To walk in the footsteps of the great, put on their shoes.

Two thirds of leadership is encouragement.

He smiles a little. This is the point of being a teacher. A glimmer of hope where you thought it didn't exist.

your boss at work, or your spouse, or a group of college students via YouTube?

The point of an exemplar is not that he or she is to be emulated, but that this person, in virtue of being farther along a path you aspire to go down, somehow understands you better than you understand yourself—at least at the beginning.

Discipline is the faithful friend who will introduce you to your true self. Discipline is the worthy protector who will defend you from your lesser self. And discipline is the extraordinary mentor who will challenge you to become the-best-version-of-yourself and all God created you to be.

He took an interest in who I was and who I wanted to become.

I think you'll be a great teacher," said Gary. That's his role in my life: blind encourager and ambassador of false senses of security.

Even among men of science, facts were never allowed to dominate diversion. Dr William Stokes, William Wilde's great friend and mentor (who lived in the square at No. 5), pronounced it as 'the golden rule of conversation, to know nothing accurately'.

Don't you aim to work with iron. Aim to work with men. They're what need the bendin'. They're what it pays to shape. Heat 'em and temper 'em. Hammer 'em and form 'em. If you break one of 'em, here and there, it don't make no difference. Throw the pieces outside the shop. Leave

Leaders are also responsible for future leadership. They need to identify, develop, and nurture future leaders.

Readers are the leaders others follow.

I really enjoyed hanging out with some of the teachers. This one chemistry teacher, she liked hanging out. I liked making explosives. We would stay after school and blow things up.

My dad taught me to play bass. He's a bass player he still plays in a band in Michigan to this day. He taught me to play bass when I was about 6. I used to just go to band practice with him, and whoever didn't show up for rehearsal that day, I would take their spot.

Faith Frank hired me, originally, based on nothing. She took me in and she taught me things, and more than that she gave me permission. I think that's what the people who change our lives always do. They give us permission to be the person we secretly really long to be but maybe don't feel we're allowed to be.

You needed to find a way to make your world dynamic, Greer knew. Sometimes you couldn't do it yourself. Someone had to see something in you and speak to you in a way that no one else ever had.

Everybody took me under their wing and didn't make fun of me for not knowing anything about theater.

All talk about the path and the goal is as a lantern carried by a blind man. The blind man needs a staff in his hand, the seeker needs his hand in the God-Man's

A student who considers everybody and everything as a teacher will eventually be the teacher of the teachers!

remember one day when we were out shooting on location, I said to him, "Slim, you've made a thousand movies. I've only made two. Give me some advice." He said, "Well, Mel, whenever you get a chance—sit down. Directing takes a lot out of you and you're too busy to notice how tired you are.

I've worked with many great people in my life, but there will never be another Carl Reiner.

I am involved with 'Write Girl ' which is such a great organization, because they go into inner city schools and work with underprivileged girls to pair them up with other writers. And it gets them learning to express themselves and become familiar with their own voice. They have a 100% success ratio getting those girls into college.