Quotes about Mentorship
What I can say, categorically, is that working with Sarah Paulson and Kathy Bates will have been the most formative experience for me, as an actor, for the rest of my life.
— Cody Fern
I have little to do with how you'll meet tomorrow, Gurney Halleck. I can only help you meet today.
— Frank Herbert
Caution: If you're a person who will one day mentor others, I have a sobering warning. If your ego hasn't been annihilated by the cross of Jesus Christ, you will end up becoming a Saul in the lives of those who are just as (or more) gifted than you are. And when God begins to elevate them in His service, you will go insane.
— Frank Viola
I don't need a successor, only willing hands to accept the torch for a new generation.
— Billy Graham
The No. 1 job is to help a player reach their highest potential, and that's not possible without being able to relate with them. That's been helpful, and as far as my knowledge base is concerned, that stems from being around great coaches willing to share.
— Sean McVay
I would like to be the kind of coach who gets text messages and phone calls from players years after I coach them, because we had something that is bigger than just being on the floor.
— Monty Williams
To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Already a congressman, to a mentor I hope sometime you run across something you think I can do well 24 hours per day.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
We do learn and develop when we are exposed to those who are greater than we are. Perhaps this is the chief way we mature.
— Madeleine L'Engle
The creative impulse can be killed, but it cannot be taught...What a teacher can do...in working with children, is to give the flame enough oxygen so that it can burn. As far as I'm concerned, this providing of oxygen is one of the noblest of all vocations.
— Madeleine L'Engle
So I know, with a sense of responsibility that hits me with a cold fist in the pit of my stomach, that what I am is going to make more difference to my own children and those I talk to and teach than anything I tell them.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Good coaching is about leadership and instilling respect in your players. Dictators lead through fear - good coaches do not.
— John Wooden