Quotes About Mentorship

The successful editor is one who is constantly finding newwriters, nurturing their talents, and publishing them with critical and financial success.

Book sense makes sense because someone has gone through it before and able to share it with you. Your job is to listen and discern.

When you need advice- do you seek someone who has proven success or do you get advice from people who have never achieved what you desire?

I owe a large part of my success to Joe Brown, who helped me both as a player and a person.

Being a student meant always looking up to someone wiser and always measuring yourself against that wisdom and knowledge.

Whenever I met someone who seemed to know a lot about a subject, and who evinced, moreover, a certain happiness in his or her being, and if I were interested in the subject, I asked to be taught what they knew.

selfless Scoutmasters gave us their time not because they knew what we'd become, but because they knew what we could become.

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The executive coach and teacher John Schuster

The problem with role models is they teach you roles.

Hurdle #5: The Silence of Our Dads. How much second-shift work did your father do? Probably not much. How much did he tell you about how to be a father and why it matters so much? Ditto.

Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that's not always a biological parent or family member. It may be a friend or neighbor. Often times it is a teacher.

I think everybody needs a father of sorts. Somebody that they can talk to or lean on or cry on his shoulder once in a while. And I don't know who that person would be in my brother's case, after my father passed away. There was no one alive that would be an adequate substitute. If he was looking to me for guidance, he didn't see any, and so he went on his own.

I learned how to play the game from Buck O'Neil," Banks would say. Buck said no, Ernie Banks knew how to play, but what he did learn was how to play the game with love.

True success is when you reach back and bring somebody along with you.

You need to be around people who know more than you and have more talent than you. Don't be intimidated by them; be inspired.

However cliché it sounds, my dear, you know and I know that a Master is cruel only in order to be kind. It's a very, very important rule

I'm not saying that they were Einsteins; they were marginal students. But every ballplayer whoever touched me has moved up his station in life. And the players moved up my station.

I had individuals in my life to help me make the right decisions because it wasn't about them accepting handouts. It was about them making the right decisions for me.

I think anybody who's been a part of a kid's life, you hope that when they go out into the world, that they surround themselves with the right people and don't find themselves in trouble.

At some time in your life, you probably had someone believe in you when you didn't believe in yourself.

All I can say to the kids is if you've a problem in fishing or life, if you talk to an older person, you're gonna end up alright, because nine times out of 10, they've been through the same thing.

To be a mentor you need to understand what's going on in a young person's life and you just want to have an internal dialogue that says, 'How can I help? Because I really care.'

From dear, dear Gloria Swanson, I learned how to live long, happy and free of health problems. I owe her my life.