Mentor Quotes - Page 19

• Key relationships can become threatened when you start exploring your own path. This is true when it comes to relationships with parents, mentors, and bosses. It's not always true, but many times these important people in our lives feel threatened in some way by our independence from them. There is an inner conflict that comes with exploring your own voice.

  Chip Espinoza

  People, Boss, Parent

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• There is a privilege in American society to being male and being white, and I think it's hard for white males to understand that privilege, because we've never experienced the opposite. When I sought out mentors to try to move forward, there were white males in virtually every position from which I was seeking mentorship. There was a natural simpatico or natural comfort. And so if you believe that's true, and I believe it's true, then we have to change that. We have to try to equalize opportunity and privilege.

  John Landgraf

  Believe, Moving, Opportunity

  Source: variety.com

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• Kids who are middle class, socioeconomically, are surrounded by mentors. They have coaches, teachers, they have family friends, their parents have friends. They might have opportunities, they might have jobs that allow them to experience things that kids in poverty often don't have. Sometimes they come from dysfunctional families. And when you come from a family where money's a real challenge, then it might not be a priority to get you into a summer internship.

  Soledad O'Brien

  Summer, Teacher, Real

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• When the initial little impulse comes it just tends to come. I wake up in the middle of the night, or I'll be swimming in the pool with my kids and just think, "Can't forget that one." Then there's the more organized side of the brain, which is when I choose to work on them. I've learned through a bunch of mentors how to demarcate the different times for your writing process. I keep multiple projects going at once and there's a time when no matter what you're doing, you have to stop and write it because it's coming.

  Mark Duplass

  Writing, Kids, Swimming

  Source: www.salon.com

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• We're gathering a group of women around the administration to serve over a longer period of time as mentors to girls in need. If we can have that kind of impact in one night, just imagine if we were working with girls over the course of a year or two.... We can change lives.

  Michelle Obama

  Girl, Life Changing, Night

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Tiffany has been apprenticing as a witch by visiting people in need with her mentor. After meeting with one particularly sad case, she tells her mentor, "It shouldn't be like this." Her mentor replies, "There isn't a way things should be. There's just what happens, and what we do.

  Terry Pratchett

  People, Needs, Way

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• The mentor can be identified by four things: by restraining you from wrongdoing, guiding you towards good actions, telling you what you ought to know, and showing you the path to heaven.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Buddhist

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• Don't be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard. Learn from the pros, observe them, seek them out as mentors and partners. But remember that even the pros may have leveled out in terms of their learning and skills. Sometimes even the pros can become complacent and lazy.

  Colin Powell

  Exercise, Skills, Challenges

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• I had often heard Mentor say, that the voluptuous were never brave, and I now found by experience that it was true; for the Cyprians whose jollity had been so extravagant and tumultuous, now sunk under a sense of their danger and wept like women. I heard nothing but the screams of terror and the wailings of hopeless distress. Some lamented the loss of pleasures that were never to return; but none had presence of mind either to undertake or direct the navigation of the menaced vessel.

  Francois Fenelon

  Loss, Presence Of Mind, Brave

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• Apple is our mentor, Facebook is our enemy.

  Dick Costolo

  Technology, Apples, Enemy

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• To help with knowing if you're good or not, you need a mentor.

  Alex Day

  Music, Powerful, Knowing

  "How A YouTube Sensation Beat Justin Timberlake And The Music Industry". Interview with James Altucher, techcrunch.com. March 18, 2013.

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• I myself will perhaps cry out with all the rest, looking at the mother embracing her child's tormentor: 'Just art thou, O Lord!' but I do not want to cry out with them. While there's still time, I hasten to defend myself against it, and therefore I absolutely renounce all higher harmony. It is not worth one little tear of even that one tormented child who beat her chest with her little fist and prayed to 'dear God' in a stinking outhouse with her unredeemed tears!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Mother, Art, Children

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• It's fun to see the light in someone's eyes. It's fun to give your own eccentric experience and have it land. That's fun.

  Richard Dreyfuss

  Fun, Eye, Light

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• Ed Woolard, his mentor on the Apple board, pressed Jobs for more than two years to drop the interim in front of his CEO title. Not only was Jobs refusing to commit himself, but he was baffling everyone by taking only $1 a year in pay and no stock options. I make 50 cents for showing up, he liked to joke, and the other 50 cents is based on performance.

  Walter Isaacson

  Jobs, Two, Apples

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• And the only studies were - Rodney Dangerfield was my mentor and he was my Yale drama school for comedy.

  Robert Klein

  Drama, School, Yale

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. June 19, 2005.

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• Get over here and talk to her. She's a reporter, not a Dementor.Harry Potter nerd.Whatever. Take the damn phone.

  Robin Benway

  Phones, Nerd, Potters

  Robin Benway (2009). “Audrey, Wait!”, p.71, Penguin

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• He was my tormentor and my solace; the creator of the dark and the light within.

  CJ Roberts

  Dark, Light, Solace

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• I look up to a lot of people, but outside of my parents, I've never really had a mentor.

  Chris Hughes

  People, Parent, Looks

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• As we get older, it's important for us to help hand back some of what we've gained as we've grown older. It should be one of your responsibilities - it's almost like being a mentor.

  Ciara

  Responsibility, Hands, Important

  "Seventeen Chats with Ciara at Do Something 101!". Interview with Seventeen, www.seventeen.com. August 13, 2009.

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• A creative writing program is only as good as its teachers, and I was fortunate in having two great writers as mentors.

  Jay McInerney

  Teacher, Writing, Two

  "Novelist Jay McInerney on Getting Your Novel Underway". Interview with Anne Bowling, www.writersdigest.com. March 11, 2008.

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• If you had to spend every second, of every day, of every year of your life with someone, would you do whatever it took to love that person? Would you be a best friend, a teacher, coach and mentor? Would you do whatever it takes to treat that person with respect? Well guess what? That someone is you! Who deserves the best more than you do? Think about it and have an outstanding day...!

  James A. Murphy III

  Teacher, Thinking, Years

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• I'm just as famous as my mentor... but that's still the boss don't get sent for

  Drake

  Bad Ass, Boss, Stills

  Song: Tuscan Leather, 2013

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• Allow humans to be themselves and celebrate that selfness. Love the metaphoric mind and respect the rational. Nurture Motivation. Consider any attempt at communication appropriate. Celebrate the whole person.

  Bob Samples

  Motivation, Communication, Mind

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• The meaningful times, the meaningful people, even the people who were not so meaningful, but these people who have done things in your life that make you what you are, they're bricks in the building that you are.

  Antwone Fisher

  Meaningful, People, Done

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• I have an addictive personality myself and one of the things I've learned is, you're always in recovery. Part of my healing process is being a mentor and teacher and helping people. Yet, at the same time, I have to be very careful about my own addictions.

  Susan Shapiro

  Teacher, Healing, Recovery

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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