Quotes About Mentorship

I suspect Bill Snyder may be a sorcerer... he's one of the coaches that I admire most!

Mitch Hurwitz was like a father figure to me. He was so sweet, and he's just so smart.

Being who I was, I had the best swimming instructor - Duke Kahanamoku - the year after he won the Olympics.

When I introduce my basketball friends to golf, I tell them to just swing halfway. The power is the easy part.

It is never easy to have your dad as your swing coach.

My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it.

I realized, 'Oh, it's easier to get what I want if I embrace the sex symbol thing.' Microphones are more in my face, and I can say things about the kids that I mentor and open more access to more doors.

If you want small group leaders to make a weekly investment in kids, then you need to make a weekly investment in small group leaders.

Thus talent sometimes wishes to correct genius, as if the eaglet wished to teach the eagle to fly.

Richard A. LaFleur

A sure indication of a successful leader is the collective and consistent testimony of subordinates who are grateful for what they learned and how they grew while they worked under that leader.

Lincoln began to emerge from his funk by helping a coworker who looked up to him out of a funk of his own.

Leaders are not born. Leaders are built.

Alexander Maclaren writes: "This man, before he was four-and-twenty hours a disciple, had made another. Some of you have been disciples for as many years, and have never even tried to make one."3

It is the male arm around the shoulder or pat on the back that God allows to have the quickest access to the heart of a child or employee. Men who are seeking to live out the Masculine Mandate will be nurturers.

He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

People on earth are never alone," he explained. "There's always someone as a guide for each individual.

I am here to help her learn, Tansy said, not to keep her from it.

Yes, I think you'll find that all the best teachers are old bats.

trained no fewer than eleven Nobel Prize winners during his life, an unsurpassed record.

Bohr was different in another regard as well; he was easily the most talented of all Rutherford's many students—and Rutherford trained no fewer than eleven Nobel Prize winners during his life, an unsurpassed record.

a person must pass the lessons learned on to others—or there has been no real gift at all.

No civilization has ever survived unless the elders saw it their duty to pass on gifts of Spirit to the young ones.

What constitutes a fit between artist and mentor? It is not necessarily style, or even sensibility, though sensibility gets closer to describing it. Aesthetic might be the best. If a shared aesthetic exists, the mentor can come to view the mentee as another of his projects: a shaping and sculpting, and a carrying forward of the mentor's aesthetic.