Mentor Quotes - Page 17

• When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie.

  Trent Reznor

  Careers, People, Would Be

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• Of all the rocks upon which we build our lives, we are reminded today that family is the most important. And we are called to recognize and honor how critical every father is to that foundation. They are teachers and coaches. They are mentors and role models. They are examples of success and the men who constantly push us toward it.

  Barack Obama

  Teacher, Father, Men

  Barack Obama's Father’s Day speech, www.nytimes.com. June 15, 2008.

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• To recognize another's inwardness is to have seen the sacred.

  Peter Koestenbaum

  Sacred, Mentoring

  Peter Koestenbaum (1974). “Existential sexuality; choosing to love”

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• Alexander the Great valued learning so highly, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge than to his father Philip for life.

  Samuel Smiles

  Father, Giving, Used

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• I was a child that both my parents wanted. I was told from the time I was born that I was totally satisfactory. I had a chance to be what I wanted to be.

  Margaret Mead

  Children, Parent, Chance

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• My mother was very sympathetic. She was the one who really gave me the courage to take my freedom.

  Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

  Mother, Sympathetic

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• What I do requires fantastic concentration... but you can't be totally alone, or you lose all contact with reality, so even when I'm engrossed and secluded, Jack Dunphy can be there. He's my oldest and best friend, and best critic too.

  Truman Capote

  Reality, Fantastic, Concentration

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• All values are important, everyone who has ever touched my life in some way was a mentor for good or bad. Life is a blend, and a person is a blend of all the influences that have touched their lives.

  Colin Powell

  Important, Way, Priceless

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• Simply stated, girls want role models and mentors.

  Anna Maria Chavez

  Girl, Role Models, Roles

  "Girl Scouts Changed the World 100 Years Ago — Now it’s Our Turn" by Anna Maria Chavez, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 12, 2012.

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• It is certainly true that reason is the most important and the highest rank among all things and, in comparison with other things of this life, the best and something divine. It is the inventor and mentor of all the arts, medicines, laws, and of whatever wisdom, power, virtue, and glory men possess in this life.

  Martin Luther

  Art, Men, Medicine

  Martin Luther, Jaroslav Pelikan (1960). “Career of the Reformer”

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• Why is it that English, drama and music teachers are most often recalled as our mentors and inspirations? Maybe because artists are rarely members of the popular crowd.

  Roger Ebert

  Teacher, Drama, Inspiration

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• Cooking is in an honest profession where you cannot hide and let others do the work for you. You have to show up, work hard and prove you can do it faster and better. And find a mentor who will recognize your talent and push you in the right direction.

  Marcus Samuelsson

  Hard Work, Cooking, Honest

  "Diversity, Drive and Determination in the Kitchen" by Marcus Samuelsson, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 21, 2013.

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• In terms of changes, the spiritual mentors teach me that I must not forget those relating primarily to improve myself.

  Chico Xavier

  Inspirational, Change, Spiritual

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• The difference in a teacher and a mentor is that a mentor is interested in our soul.

  Robert A. Johnson

  Teacher, Differences, Soul

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• And I'd watch George C. Scott from backstage. He was one of my mentors.

  Jeffrey Tambor

  Watches

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• You know, Quincy Jones was a great mentor, but he was a man in a man's world. Fortunately he's a very sensitive man and a beautiful human being, and even though he was 14 or 15 years older than me, he's a capable human being and has great communication skills.

  Lesley Gore

  Beautiful, Communication, Men

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• A lot of DJs who started the same time as me, they are not to be seen anymore. And I get so much love and respect from the young DJs, and some of them look up to me or ask me for advice. I am almost like the mentor.

  Tiesto

  Advice, Looks, Love And Respect

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have an MFA in writing. It is debatable if they are right for everyone, but I had a mentor who really changed my life, so it worked for me.

  Rob Roberge

  Writing, Changed, Ifs

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I have mentored two young aspiring actors and I wish that I had known I could look for a mentor because it would have been a lot easier to be able to ask those questions to someone who had gone through it already.

  Erica Schroeder

  Two, Wish, Able

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• Don't take the casual approach to life. Casualness leads to casualties. Seek out the mentors that you need that will lead you to greatness in your field. If you're not willing to learn from others, who are you willing to learn from?

  Jim Rohn

  Greatness, Needs, Fields

  Source: becomeanonlinetutor.com

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• Surely people can now see that it is no accident that he, Obama, sat at the feet of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright for 20 years, that he is mother was a leftist activist and cultural Marxist, that his main early mentor was radical Frank Marshall Davis, that he was a member of the far-left New Party in Chicago, that his main vocation in life has been street organizing and agitation and that he didn't think the revolutionarily, transformative Warren court was liberal enough.

  David Limbaugh

  Mother, Party, Thinking

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• It is important for us to see that our mentors are human and therefore fallible; it makes our own shortcomings more tenable.

  John Wooden

  Important, Humans, Shortcomings

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• I get thousands of requests for mentorship, but they don't offer anything in return, like filing, cleaning my house, or something. All too often, it's "please mentor me; I need my shot." But they don't offer anything in return.

  Ryan Blair

  House, Needs, Return

  "From Gangster to Guru for Ryan Blair". Interview with Deborah Jeanne Sergeant, homebusinessmag.com. December 9, 2015.

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• ... as we are being blunt, the fact is that Tony [Abbott] and the people who put him in his job do not want to do anything about climate change. They do not believe in human caused global warming. As Tony observed on one occasion "climate change is crap" or if you consider his mentor, Senator Minchin, the world is not warming, its cooling and the climate change issue is part of a vast left wing conspiracy to deindustrialise the world.

  Nick Minchin

  Jobs, Believe, Wings

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• I hate the word mentor, the professionalization of friendships between generations. I just feel like the fact of friendship is the thing we all adored, like the younger befriends or reaches out to their hero, and for me, whenever you meet some younger person, who has a fire in their gut, a way of being in the world, it excites you.

  Eileen Myles

  Hate, Hero, Fire

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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