Quotes About Mentorship

The word Guru is composed of two Sanskrit syllables. The first means "darkness," the second means "light." Out of the darkness and into the light.

La palabra gurú se compone de dos sílabas sánscritas. La primera significa «oscuridad»; la segunda significa «luz». Es decir, el paso de la oscuridad a la luz.

aspiring journalist to Carl Kolchak) 'Andy knows I want to be a reporter. Like you' This took me by surprise. 'Sallie, my dear, nobody wants to be a reporter like me.

Tom Crean, tough and practical as ever, took the younger puppies

Both professor and student share in the pursuit of excellence and perfection.

Associating with the wise and the knowledgeable people adds to the prestige of a person.

If I find any more baby Bards in the wild, I shall give up traveling," he said at last. "I'm not running a School.

No real teacher can doubt that his task is to assist his pupil to fulfill human nature against all the deforming forces of convention and prejudice.

The more consistent a father can be or a mentor can be in the person's life and teach them principles of real solid manhood, character, integrity and leadership, the more consistent you can be in the person's life and teach them those things at a younger age, and then the better off they'll be.

A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study." - Chinese proverb

I floated around in the department of biochemistry and learned some interesting things, and then I began to... I never wanted to work with a mentor because I always wanted to have my own reputation and be free to do what I wanted to do. So I worked with the weakest people in the department. Don't make that public.

It is always good when you have an experienced coach who knows your strengths and weaknesses.

The first time I went through YC, it was smaller, and the founders were younger. The advantage of that was that the set of founders who were older than us had really seen the Web 1.0 meltdown. They brought that knowledge to us.

I was 14, but it was on a thing called day release, so we took the day off school on a Wednesday to train and do school at Cobham, and at the end of the day, we got asked to train with the first team just because of numbers. There was a drill where it was like a 1v1 drill, and I got partnered with Drogba. I was going 1v1 with Drogba when I was 14.

I remember when I was in Mid-South and they used to tape interviews every Wednesday morning, and I wasn't required to go to the interviews because I was a rookie and I wasn't cutting any interviews - I was a curtain jerker. But I went every Wednesday anyway because I was going to watch those guys and I was going to glean from them.

My father is my best friend. He's my idol and my boss. We work side by side and spend every weekend together.

Erik Seidel ended up introducing me to some of the best players in the world, a few of whom also agreed to take me on to coach me. So I had access to the best poker minds in the world to help me study and figure things out.

I always tell people, good coaches are a dime a dozen. Good coaches that are good people, good husbands, good fathers, that love their players and are passionate about doing things in a way that I believe is important, that pool gets real small.

My mom worked for a doctor who had a pool that he heated to 90 degrees, and I hated cold water. My dad showed me how to dive in that pool, and pretty soon I started doing flips.

I'm a camp counselor for pop stars.

When you have a teacher who is part of a tradition, the other people in that tradition are such stars. You just look at them like pop stars.

For whatever reason, Coach Schwartz and I weren't all that close at first. We didn't have that kind of relationship, really. I don't know why, maybe because I was a rookie, but I never felt real comfortable just popping my head in his office and sitting down to talk.

My pops had me at the studio since I was born. That's why I got into music. He would let me go up on the controls and mess with stuff.

Sometimes Kellen calls me 'Coach.' Sometimes he calls me 'Pops.'