Mentor Quotes - Page 12

• People want you to be the ambassador of everything. This happens to me especially when I go to Europe. I have to be the ambassador of everything. I learned this from Elena Poniatowska - intelligent woman, great lady, one of my heroes, one of my spiritual mentors, I love her. Someone is in this big museum and they ask her, "Elenita, what do you think about Mexican women . . ." And she says, "I haven't a clue!"

  Sandra Cisneros

  Spiritual, Hero, Intelligent

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• The most advanced, creative and original thinking is always a product of historical context and the influences of previous geniuses, mentors, and collaborators on the mind of the originator.

  Michael J. Gelb

  Thinking, Creative, Historical

  Michael J. Gelb (2009). “Discover Your Genius: How to Think Like History's Ten Most Revolutionary Minds”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• A low-cost index fund is the most sensible equity investment for the great majority of investors. My mentor, Ben Graham, took this position many years ago, and everything I have seen since convinces me of its truth.

  Warren Buffett

  Years, Majority, Cost

  "The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns". Book by John C. Bogle, March 05, 2007.

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• Reverend Wright has been my friend and mentor for over 20 years.

  Barack Obama

  Years, Reverends, My Friends

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• Use your past as one of your mentors.

  Jim Rohn

  Past, Use, Your Past

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• My brother's my teacher, my mentor, and we both learnt all the acting basics from our father.

  Jeff Bridges

  Teacher, Brother, Father

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• European militants recognize Mumia Abu-Jamal, and the Mexican militants followed their example and legitimated his work because the Europeans said, "Hey, Mumia Abu-Jamal is relevant in the US. I, the European, am telling you. I am your political guide, your icon, your mentor for political references. I am telling you that you should support the relevant causes."

  Bocafloja

  Icons, Mexican, Support

  "Decolonial Rap". Interview with Andrew Smolski, www.counterpunch.org. May 15, 2015.

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• I did my first play in fifth grade. This same fifth grade teacher asked me several years later what I wanted to do when I grew up. I knew the most fun I'd had was doing the play in her class, so when I told her that, she began to take me to local theater auditions and became my mentor and friend, and to this day continues to be.

  Heather Hemmens

  Teacher, Fun, Years

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• Obama's Marxist mentors - Franklin Marshall Davis, Saul Alinsky and Bill Ayers - also understood that you don't build an army of street organizers or a recurring voting constituency by teaching people of the streets to fish. When you 'share wealth around' you make the distributees dependent on your next handout - beholden to your largesse with other's people's money and personally worse off in every respect.

  David Limbaugh

  Teaching, Army, People

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• Tramaine Hawkins has been a mentor, a confidante and an example of greatness. She has been through a lot in her life, and her career has spanned over 50 years. To me, that's what you call a legend.

  Yolanda Adams

  Greatness, Years, Careers

  "Yolanda Adams Talks ESSENCE Festival & Entertainment Business". Interview with Monique Valeries, www.essence.com. May, 29, 2013.

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• Influence others positively by being a teacher, coach, counselor, or mentor.

  Stephen G. Post

  Teacher, Influence, Counselor

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• Without my mentors there is no Misty.

  Misty Copeland

  Misty

  "Glamour Women of the Year Awards 2015 Recap: Carnegie Hall, New York City" by Danica Lo, www.glamour.com. November 9, 2015.

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• Unlike a lot of British directors, I hadn't done any theater. But, I had a great mentor who said, "What you're looking for is exactly the same thing you've done in your documentaries, which is moments of emotional truth.

  Susanna White

  Emotional, Directors, Done

  Source: collider.com

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• In a world where people are hungry for quick fixes and sound bites, for instant gratification, there is not patience for the long. Slow rebuilding process: implementing after school programs, hiring more community workers to act as mentors, adding more job training programs in marginalized areas

  Dan Hill

  Jobs, School, Long

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• In a very real way Norman [Lear] godfathered me into my career. He was the best mentor anybody could have ever had.

  Richard Masur

  Real, Careers, Way

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I teach Korean translation at the British Centre for Literary Translation summer school, so I see an emerging generation too, who are around my age. I'm hoping to find time to mentor, and to help emerging translators to a first contract through Tilted Axis.

  Deborah Smith

  Summer, School, Axes

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I love to nurture, I love to help people. I love to brainstorm. I like to mentor.

  Debbi Fields

  People, Helping, Nurture

  "Debbi Fields Talks The Importance Of Persistence And Staying Present In ORIGIN Magazine". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 27, 2013.

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• I'm reading George Saunders's story collection, "Tenth of December." He was my mentor at the University of Syracuse. The stories are mind-blowing like everyone says.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Reading, Mind Blowing, Stories

  Interview with Amy Sutherland, www.bostonglobe.com. March 2, 2013.

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• Every 70-year-old needs a young person in their lives to mentor, and every 20-year-old needs a senior.

  Shane Claiborne

  Senior, Years, Needs

  "Plotting goodness together: An interview with Shane Claiborne". Interview with Jonathan Merritt, religionnews.com. May 22, 2013.

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• We need to get back to trusting our emotional rapport with children, to seeing a child's beauty and singling that child out. That's how the mentor system works - you're caught up in the fantasy of another person. Your imagination and their come together.

  James Hillman

  Children, Emotional, Imagination

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• I did Urban Zen for myself, to make clothes for me and my friends, a similar philosophy to when I started Donna Karan. Except this time I hope it will stay that way so that I will be able to support young designers and mentor them.

  Donna Karan

  Philosophy, Clothes, Support

  "Donna Karan on Meditation, Fashion - and Love". Interview with Mayu Saini, wwd.com. March 28, 2016.

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• The people that are succeeding have often had a mentor of some kind. I think it makes a huge difference.

  Julie Delpy

  Thinking, Differences, People

  "Julie Delpy: Male Directors Have Stolen My Ideas". Interview with Emily Zemler, www.elle.com. March 22, 2016.

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• A lot of new American directors have had mentors who have given them advice. And some of them have had the way paved for them by huge Hollywood directors who saw a younger version of themselves.

  Julie Delpy

  Advice, Directors, Hollywood

  "Julie Delpy: Male Directors Have Stolen My Ideas". Interview with Emily Zemler, www.elle.com. March 22, 2016.

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• I have never had a secret hero in my mind but I have kept a lot of mentors in my mind that are heroes. Gandhi, Jesus, Moses, Martin Luther King they were all secret heroes in my mind because they stood for what they wanted, what they believed in.

  John Assaraf

  Jesus, Kings, Hero

  Source: insearchofheroes.com

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• When I grew up, I simply didn't have mentors that said, "Science is important. Science helps you build a country. Science makes a country powerful." And that's such a simple thought, but when you think about what's powered Taiwan and Korea and Silicon Valley and Cambridge.

  Juan Enriquez

  Country, Powerful, Simple

  Source: bigthink.com

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