Quotes About Mentor

While we are reaching up for self-improvement, we also need to be the one some reach up to as well!

In my early days I was a contract player at Universal and I had a wonderful mentor named Monique James, who was head of talent there, and she used to drag me on sets to do parts.

I became a member of the faculty at Northwestern University in 1965 but did not complete my thesis until two years later at a graduate ceremony at which Carnegie Institute of Technology became Carnegie-Mellon University. At Northwestern, I was mentored by the 'three Bobs:' Robert Eisner, Robert Strotz and Robert Clower.

When I was in university, my dream was to be a coach, like a high school track coach. Not to teach.

And I went off to Stanford, I was pretty young and pretty naive. And I had a professor I really loved, who was himself a lawyer.

Working on '2001' was my film school. Stanley Kubrick was my mentor.

Guys have to look up to somebody. Everybody needs to have their own role and somebody has to be the star.

Miles Davis was a part of my life from 1947 on. I was born in 1941 and I first heard him in 1947 on a 78 rpm. And then I followed his career, starting with his first solo album in 1951. He was an icon and inspiration and a mentor to me.

When I was starting out, I thought I would go into comedy and there would be a mentor, like the Philip Seymour Hoffman character in 'Almost Famous,' in my life, and there just wasn't. It was really frustrating for me because I desired that so much.

I would say my biggest mentor has been my father because he always has been. Actually both of my parents have always been ones to encourage me to be myself and stay true to myself and not fall into what other people want me to do.

I had a great stepfather.

My stepfather is my mentor. He's also like a father to me. He taught me how to be a man, how to carry myself and how to handle my business.

If you are given a chance to be a role model, I think you should always take it because you can influence a person's life in a positive light, and that's what I want to do. That's what it's all about.

My dad was my best friend and greatest role model. He was an amazing dad, coach, mentor, soldier, husband and friend.

My former coach, Simen Agdestein, used to be the best player in Norway.

I've had a great coach, John Norfolk, who has taken me from a novice to a great cyclist.

I really value people besides parents who nurture kids.

for everyone of us that succeeds, its because there's somebody there to show you the way out

A mentor is someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself.

Everything I hated in a commander, and I'm doing it. Is it some law of human nature you inevitably become whatever your first commander was? I can quit right now, if that's so.

I didn't want to find out that instead of getting my powers from a transcendent scientist-mentor, I was grown from the DNA of Aryan super-athletes and Hitler's personal sex midgets! I didn't even know Hitler had personal sex midgets!

A mentor's value is not always born by being right but by making you think twice or maybe thrice.

Many moments of my young life were spent wishing for a smart mentor - now with age, I have found equally good advice can be found in not doing the dumb things that dumb people do.

To teach is to learn twice.