Mentor Quotations

I floated around in the department of biochemistry and learned some interesting things, and then I began to... I never wanted to work with a mentor because I always wanted to have my own reputation and be free to do what I wanted to do. So I worked with the weakest people in the department. Don't make that public.

A mentor long departed told me that the greatest gift in political life, in any life, is to view yourself objectively, at arm's length, to make an assessment of yourself. So whom do I rely on? I rely on myself.

I have been lucky enough to work with the world's best designers and top stylists - who have been my mentors.

I claim Dickens as a mentor. He's my teacher. He's one of my driving forces.

Mine were informal mentors. They were all in my working life.

I think it's important for us as a society to remember that the youth within juvenile justice systems are, most of the time, youths who simply haven't had the right mentors and supporters around them - because of circumstances beyond their control.

You treat characters like people you meet in life-friends or mentors.

My mentor in college was Stephen Shore. I loved his color palettes and his taking mundane things but finding them fascinating.

I've had a life that has taken many interesting paths. I've learned a lot from mentors who were instrumental in shaping me, and I want to share what I've learned.

Yes, I first visited Korphe village, Braldu valley, Baltistan, Pakistan, after failing to summit K2 in 1993, and met Haji Ali, a long time dear mentor and friend. My second visit to Korphe was in 19

I've had mentors who were kind of the troubadour singer-songwriters, like Merle Haggard, Loretta Lynn, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan and Neil Young, and that's just what I've always liked - people who would talk real honestly about their lives and their circumstance.

I remember working on movies like Gettysburg and feeling that Jeff Daniels was kind of a mentor.

One of the advantages of having gone to Penn State was having had a scholar for a mentor - Philip Young. Also, a professional writer named Philip Klass taught there. He was a science fiction writer whose pseudonym was William Tenn. As a professional writer, he brought wisdom to teaching because he'd done it for a living.

My mentors in life are much older than me and have been through life. They can actually give me some sound advice on what I'm going through.

Mentorship is critical for young people. Mentorship by others for my children is very high on my agenda.

You know, you do need mentors, but in the end, you really just need to believe in yourself.

It doesn't matter if you're the smartest person in the room: If you're not someone who people want to be around, you won't get far. Likewise for helping those in line behind you. I take seriously my role as a mentor to young female filmmakers - I make sure my time is tithed.

I worked with Lawrence Olivier some years ago. He was a great mentor.

I've had many mentors, but the one that has the most impact was my mother.

Simply stated, girls want role models and mentors.

Many of our students say, 'We wish we had a mentor in high school. We wish we had someone we could spend more time with, who paid more attention to us, who I could sit down with and talk to when I had a problem.' So relationships are critical.

Kerry Washington is a mentor to me. She is so strong and smart. She's also so giving and supportive.

I was lucky enough to have great mentors both in the culinary world and in the world of chefs who became celebrities. Bobby Flay is one of my dearest friends and a tremendous mentor for me. Mario Batali is the same way. They began doing TV a little before me and they showed me the way.

I'm proud of my mentors. Ray Charles is the strongest influence on me as a singer

Karl Malden was quite a mentor. He taught me things he had learned from being in front of a camera so long.

I look at a mentor of mine like Ryan Seacrest and the incredible amount of equity he's been able to bring to the broadcasting arena, and the branding and the world that he's been able to build around himself.

I take mentoring very seriously and as a result I hardly get any work done during the school year.

Nelson Mandela was an outstanding leader and a mentor for me. I was in South Africa at the time he was released. I was in South Africa when he was inaugurated as the first president.

I'll happily mentor anyone who wants mentoring, and most of that goes on by internet rather than face to face.

I have a mentor. I have... guides. I have a lot of guides. Not a lot, but people whose opinions I really respect and who I will turn to.

A guy named Charlie Beacham was my first mentor at Ford. He taught me the importance of the dealers, and he rubbed my nose in the retail business.

What you want in a mentor is someone who truly cares for you and who will look after your interests and not just their own. When you do come across the right person to mentor you, start by showing them that the time they spend with you is worthwhile.

But Clint I love, because Clint was my mentor. I knew nothing about making an Italian movie.

My university teacher and mentor Kenneth Arrow remembers me as a student who asked good questions. Although I had not previously thought of myself in that way, on reflection I think that Arrow was right.

I always wish I'd had more mentors, better mentors, wiser mentors, people who were proper professional working musicians to guide me as I was coming up.

I am tremendously excited to introduce a unique 'Metal Gear Solid' experience to a new audience of gamers as well as collaborate with my mentor in game design, Mr. Miyamoto, on 'Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes' for Nintendo GameCube.

I want young girls that I mentor and young girls all around the world who want to be a model to be able to see that there's a great deal of sacrifice.

We all know the personal relationship between Michel Platini and President Blatter. It was like a mentor and protege, or even father and son.

The things I was allowed to experience, the people I was able to call friends, teammates, mentors, coaches and opponents, the travel, all of it, are far more than anything I ever thought possible in my lifetime.

Context begins with other artists - seniors and mentors.

I am my own mentor. I like to listen to myself to improve.

Any politician is to a certain degree a mentor. They preach something.

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

I look up to people that are much older than me, so being a mentor is a full time job.

In my teens, I worked as an aide in my community supervising and mentoring youth in various programs and delivering lunches to needy students.

Richard Lloyd of Television is one of my favorite guitarists. His mentor was Jimi Hendrix when he was just 14. Jimi was always pounding everything he knew into that kid.

I had some great mentors as I was coming up and starting to sing so early - I've been singing since I was four.

My lifelong friend and mentor Frank Barsalona is gone. And the music business as we knew it went with him.

My mother was a great inspiration to me to always do my best. My father has always been my mentor and friend. They taught me the basic principle that guides most all that I do: faith, focus, finish.

My best mentor is a mechanic - and he never left the sixth grade. By any competency measure, he doesn't have it. But the perspective he brings to me and my life is, bar none, the most helpful.

I came from a lower-middle-class postwar family in a time of austerity and retrenchment, with no one in the family who was in any way artistic or a potential mentor to a budding writer, and yet this is what I became.

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.

While my mother tried to stem my truancy, it would be a complete stranger - an Army Officer in the Special Forces home on leave - who would be the mentor to drive home my mother's goal of getting me educated. His name was Saul Hassan.

Emeril is a one-in-a-million Renaissance man. In 2002, he established his foundation to support children's educational programs to inspire and mentor young people through culinary arts, school food and nutrition.

Seek women mentors. If you're a businesswoman, look at the TEDx conferences. There's a lot of businesswomen that speak on there. I find them extremely inspiring.

As I see with Lori's testimony, you say what good could come out of all these abortions and all what she's been through? But she has been a part of a new Bible for women, a mentoring Bible.

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 love doing what I do. I'm a born mentor. I've launched so many people's careers. I worked hard.

The mentor-mentee relationship is ideally like that of the guru and disciple: motivated by the desire of the guru to impart knowledge to the disciple.

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.

I remove a lot of the pressure from myself by saying I'm not competing with my parents. They are the persons who taught me my ideology. They actively practiced what they preached. They're the exemplars and the role models. So how does one compete with a mentor?

A strong and dedicated mentor can help a young woman get her foot in the door, get a promotion and get a raise.

My manager is definitely a mentor as well as Usher.

Not many young women of my age have been lucky enough to have had a wonderful mentor in their life.

The best way a mentor can prepare another leader is to expose him or her to other great people.

Gleason became like a mentor of mine. I had Gleason helping me on television, Godfrey on radio.

My mentors are people like Cameron Crowe and Carrie Fisher.

Being a mentor is something that's new for me but a role that I take very seriously.

In every role that I do - whether I'm a teacher, actor or mentor - I do it with total dedication and as much honesty as I feel is required because there's no alternative to honesty and hard work.

On 'America's Next Top Model,' I mentor girls on television. When that TV goes off, I actually mentor other girls in the modeling industry - girls that have not been on 'Top Model,' but who appear in 'Vogue' worldwide.

Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.

I don't know how many roles I can ask my dad to play in my life, but so far, father, best friend, role model, mentor and grandfather to my children are working out quite well.

I certainly identify with the role of mentor and, to some degree, maybe teacher. I do a lot of work with kids at the Old Vic.

My mentor in the transition from the old Gabriel Heatter and John Cameron Swayze way of doing things was David Brinkley. He brought an entirely different style to what we were doing.

I was fortunate enough to have personal interaction with Hugh, and he was a mentor to me on many issues,

On one hand it makes it even more special to accomplish something like this competing against your mentor and somebody who laid the foundation for such a great program at Cal State-Fullerton, ... But my heart goes out to him and his club because they are 180 degrees in the opposite of what me and my players are feeling.

I got into this business to guide kids and mentor and coach them. Although the wins and losses are not secondary, they dictate whether you get questions asked about the resignation or not. It?s never been suggested to me. There?s been plenty of times that option could have come up.

Mentor was focused on slowing her down. It would be different if she was drawing all that attention and wasn't so unselfish.

She has been an incredible mentor to me. I feel like I have been given a gift in being able to coach against her.

She has been a strong mentor for women, ... When they see a woman leading in an organization like this it will open up information and lines of communication that women can be active in franchising.

She has been a strong mentor for women. When they see a woman leading in an organization like this it will open up information and lines of communication that women can be active in franchising.

She has been my mentor all of my life. She gave me my first job, when I was 14. She is one person I will always remember and attribute my success to.

Maggie didn't let us lose that many times but when we did, she told us to keep our heads up and to learn from the loss. Maggie, we'll learn from this and we will keep our heads up. We've learned from you how to be a loving daughter, a great sister, an aunt, a mentor and a best friend.

So it was a good field, but the most important thing was that the team came up with a very difficult plan for me. Lance helped me a lot and having an idol, a mentor like that to come up with a plan and for me to put the icing on the cake was a huge accomplishment. It taught me that if I believe in myself, I can push my own limits. I hope to achieve that here, next year even more, and hopefully arrive at the top eventually.

She's been a great mentor to me. She's always looking for new things to do with her students. She spends a lot of her spare time reading about her subject area, researching. She's really turned on my passion for science.

To be a mentor you need to understand what's going on in a young person's life and you just want to have an internal dialogue that says, 'How can I help? Because I really care.'

Jackie was very saddened to hear the news about the man who often played the part of a mentor to Jackie.

I am very excited about the opportunity to become a head coach, and it's even more special to have this opportunity at my alma mater. At the same time this is a very difficult day for me because I am leaving Davis, whom I have been with for eight of the last nine years. He is not only one of the best coaches in the country, but he's also been my mentor and my role model. He is the reason I am the coach and the person I am today.

I am really going to miss these four seniors. As a group, they represent the best of what student-athletes can be. They are appreciative of every opportunity and resource we have at Texas. They've worked very very hard in basketball. Academically, all of them are a success story. They volunteer and give back in the community. They've guided the freshmen especially well, and each of them has been a great leader and mentor for our young team.

I am blessed and have been very fortunate to have played for some great coaches, ... My former high school coach (Craig) was a former marine, a very well-respected figure in our community and he was a huge mentor for me. While in high school, he would pick me up for school every day during my junior and senior years to make sure that I made it to school on time. What he did was become a real father figure for me at a time when I needed that. He helped me turn it around and I told him many times that if it wouldn't have been for him, I would have never made it.

I get on well with everyone, but I like Jessie Wallace and Natalie Cassidy. Natalie was my mentor when I joined, so we're really close.

I got better in math and reading after I got a mentor. My mentor talks to me about everything. He plays basketball with me in the gym, too.

What I mainly do during the spring is spend time with our young players. I help them with their hitting and I instruct the outfielders. Working with the young guys is something I really enjoy. I'm trying to help them improve as baseball players. I'm also trying to help mentor them. I want them to avoid making the same mistakes that I've made.

He's a great guy and he's been a great mentor for me. I looked up at him when I was a college player and he has helped me to be a better player.

I always feel lost when he's not there. I need someone to direct me and push me and then hold me back when I'm doing too much. It's nice to be back and have a mentor there to help me out.

He was my mentor at UCLA, but he's a traitor now.

We mentor the merchant on how to successfully sell online, and we think we have the formula for driving local shoppers to local businesses.

He was a dear friend, a true mentor and the epitome of a gentle man,

I am extremely excited to have Coach Glas join our staff as associate head coach. He's a coaching legend. To have someone of his experience joining our staff is invaluable. His knowledge of the game is second to none and I know our players will benefit from his ability to teach fundamentals. Above all else, he is a mentor and a terrific friend. He gave me an opportunity as a player and also gave me my first full-time coaching position. I couldn't be happier that we'll be working together again.

I am grateful to have had Tom Udall as my mentor in the practice of law.