Mentor famous quotes

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

#Mentor #Stylist #Lucky

I think along the way, as we treat nature as model and mentor, and not as a nuisance to be evaded or manipulated, we will certainly acquire much more reverence for life than we seem to be showing right now.
-- Amory Lovins

#Intelligent #Thinking #Mentor

Gabby Giffords was a mentor of mine in the state Legislature and also in Congress.
-- Ann Kirkpatrick

#Mentor #Legislature #States

Simply stated, girls want role models and mentors.
-- Anna Maria Chavez

#Girl #Role Models #Mentor

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

#Years #Mentor

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 #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?
-- Benigno Aquino III

#Role Models #Parent #Mentor

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

#Mentor #Goes On #Want

A leader or mentor gives credit to others when things go right, and accepts the blame when things go wrong.
-- Bill Courtney

#Giving #Leader #Mentor

Find a great mentor who believes in you, your life will change forever!
-- Bill Walsh

#Believe #Forever #Mentor

Getting a mentor is the shortcut to success.
-- Bo Sanchez

#Mentor #Shortcuts

A mentor is someone who sees more talent and ability within you, than you see in yourself, and helps bring it out of you.
-- Bob Proctor

#Mentor #Helping #Talent

My biggest mentor is myself because I've had to study, so that's been my biggest influence.
-- Brendan Rodgers

#Mentor #Study #Influence

I suspect that every writer is secretly writing for someone.
-- Brewster Ghiselin

#Writing #Mentor

Think of yourself as a resource to your clients;an advisor,counselor,mentor and friend.
-- Brian Tracy

#Thinking #Mentor #Clients

I was both charmed and moved by Midday with Buuel, Mexican filmmaker and writer Claudio Isaac's personal and very poetic recollection of his friendship with his mentor, the Spanish surrealist Luis Buuel.
-- C. M. Mayo

#Mexican #Mentor #Poetic

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

#Spiritual #Mentor #Forget

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

#People #Parent #Mentor

My mentor Jon Simmons introduced me to the Stanislavski system, which is so heavy on back-story. So you write and write and write these back stories about a character and then you throw it away. So then on set, if it doesn't come, then you didn't do your work.
-- Chris Zylka

#Character #Writing #Mentor

I've never had a mentor. I've always wanted one. I'm actually really disappointed that nobody took my under their wing.
-- Christopher Bollen

#Wings #Mentor #Wanted

When it comes to mentors, you can't beat survival.
-- Christopher McDougall

#Survival #Mentor #Beats

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 #Mentor

My heart, independent of my logic, had reserved a place for my tormentor and my solace.
-- CJ Roberts

#Independent #Heart #Mentor

He was my tormentor and my solace; the creator of the dark and the light within.
-- CJ Roberts

#Dark #Light #Mentor

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

#Mentor #Important #Way

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.
-- Curt Schilling

#People #Mentor #Teammate

Trusted counselors, mentors and guides make an indelible mark on the lives they touch, and they provide the two ingredients to success in life--caring and sharing--that cannot be learned or purchased.
-- David Cottrell

#Caring #Two #Mentor

However self-sufficient we may fancy ourselves, we exist only in relation -- to our friend, family, and life partners; to those we teach and mentor; to our co-workers, neighbors, strangers; and even to forces we cannot fully conceive of, let alone define. In many ways, we are our relationships.
-- Derrick Bell

#Self #Mentor #May

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

#Believe #Mentor #Needs

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

#Mentor #Degrees #Politician

Tommy Smothers is my longest mentor, and Dave Eggers is my youngest.
-- Don Novello

#Mentor #Dave

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

#Feelings #Mentor #Remember

So, if I had a mentor, it was Johnny Moss.
-- Doyle Brunson

#Mentor #Moss

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

#Bad Ass #Boss #Mentor

You can't dig a different hole by digging the same one deeper.
-- Edward de Bono

#Mentor #Different #Digging

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

#Italian #Mentor

I don’t want to be a mentor in my bedroom...
-- Ellen Barkin

#Mentor #Want #Bedroom

Be a mentor to others. Your most important legacy is preparing new leaders to carry on your goals.
-- Ellen Sauerbrey

#Goal #Leader #Mentor

Then stop being a know-it-all lionpaw retorted You're not my mentor so stay out of my fur. Lionpaw at Berrynose in Outcast pg 67
-- Erin Hunter

#Mentor #Fur #Know It All

My interest in photography did not begin with books or mentors, or with any burning desire to see the world through a camera. It evolved from an intense devotion to mountains and wilderness that eventually shaped all the parts of my life and brought them together.
-- Galen Rowell

#Photography #Book #Mentor

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

#Long #Mentor #Cameras

She is by my side, as my sister, but he is my soul.He is my enemy, my tormentor, my demon.He is my beloved.
-- Gillian Shields

#Soul #Enemy #Mentor

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

#Singing #Mentor #Four

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.
-- Graham Swift

#Class #Mentor #Austerity

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
-- Greg Mortenson

#Long #Mentor #Valleys

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

#Lunch #Community #Mentor

Every disciple needs three types of relationships in his life. He needs a 'Paul' who can mentor him and challenge him. He needs a 'Barnabas' who can come along side and encourage him. And he needs a 'Timothy,' someone that he can pour his life into.
-- Howard G. Hendricks

#Christian #Challenges #Mentor

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.
-- Jake Gyllenhaal

#People #Mentor #Opinion

I was lucky that I met the right mentors and teachers at the right moment
-- James Levine

#Teacher #Mentor #Lucky

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

#Mentor #Watches

Imagine it's 1981. You're an artist, in love with art, smitten with art history. You're also a woman, with almost no mentors to look to; art history just isn't that into you. Any woman approaching art history in the early eighties was attempting to enter an almost foreign country, a restricted and exclusionary domain that spoke a private language.
-- Jerry Saltz

#Country #Art #Mentor

To be a mentor for up-and-coming artists is right up my alley.
-- Jessica Simpson

#Artist #Mentor #Alleys

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.
-- Jim Bakker

#Abortion #Mentor #Mentoring

I remember saying to my mentor, 'If I had more money, I would have a better plan.' He quickly responded, 'I would suggest that if you had a better plan, you would have more money.' You see, it's not the amount that counts; it's the plan that counts.
-- Jim Rohn

#Mentor #Remember #More Money

Shortly after I met my mentor he asked me, ‘Mr. Rohn, how much money have you saved and invested over the last six years?’ And I said, ‘None.’ He then asked, ‘Who sold you on that plan?’
-- Jim Rohn

#Years #Mentor #Lasts

My mentor said, 'Let's go do it', not 'You go do it'. How powerful when someone says, 'Let's!'
-- Jim Rohn

#Powerful #Mentor #Said

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

#Leadership #People #Mentor

No matter what your age and no matter where you come from, everyone can change the world in some way, whether it's being a mentor to someone younger than you or someone that doesn't have as much experience as you. If you're passionate enough, you can do whatever you want and definitely change the world.
-- Josh Groban

#Mentor #Age #Passionate

I never chased after any particular school, never really had mentors; I really just did the work that was true to me.
-- Joyce Tenneson

#Photography #School #Mentor

Colleagues are a wonderful thing - but mentors, that's where the real work gets done.
-- Junot Diaz

#Real #Mentor #Done

When I hear him sing and see what he can do, though, it's always a reminder of why I look up to Usher as my mentor and why I will always be an Usher fan to my core. But I'm lucky to say that he's an even better friend to me than he's a mentor. He's truly the real deal.
-- Justin Bieber

#Real #Mentor #Fans

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.
-- Keith Urban

#People #Mentor #Wish

Context begins with other artists - seniors and mentors.
-- Kenneth Noland

#Senior #Artist #Mentor

Mine were informal mentors. They were all in my working life.
-- Laurence Fishburne

#Mentor

But I get a thrill out of bringing a group together and helping them reach a place they didn’t know they could go. I see myself as a mentor now and I’m excited to lead some of these talented young guys.
-- LeBron James

#Guy #Together #Mentor

I am always with myself, and it is I who am my tormentor.
-- Leo Tolstoy

#Mentor

I do have a very wonderful mentor, who helps me and reads my work and criticizes me, all the time. You've gotta have those people, who will tell you the truth and help you. You don't want anyone buttering you up. I want someone to tell me what I can fix. That's what I like.
-- Liana Liberato

#People #Mentor #Helping

My mother was very sympathetic. She was the one who really gave me the courage to take my freedom.
-- Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

#Mother #Mentor #Sympathetic

It's wonderful to work with someone with mentor status.
-- Madeleine Peyroux

#Mentor #Wonderful

I had many mentors, and they didn't know it.
-- Maggie Wilderotter

#Mentor

If you want someone to be your mentor, you better be ready to listen and be humbled.
-- Magic Johnson

#Mentor #Want #Ready

Just as it's painful to hear any woman talk about sexual assault, whether true or not, it's just as painful to watch my friend and mentor go through this.
-- Malcolm-Jamal Warner

#Mentor #Watches #Painful

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 #Mentor

I had seen how in an instant, those you called friends could suddenly become tormentors, sniffing out a weakness or a difference, turning their own fear of ostracism into a weapon with which they could beat the victim away, afraid that being an outsider, and individual even, was somehow infectious.
-- Meera Syal

#Differences #Mentor #Weapons

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.
-- Melissa Rosenberg

#People #Mentor #Female

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

#Mentor #Proud #Singers

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.
-- Michael Symon

#Mentor #World #Littles

When I mentor, I tell people that don't have to look like a supermodel but you have got to feel your best, look your best, and be confident.
-- Michelle Mone

#People #Mentor #Looks

Our true mentor in life is science.
-- Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

#Mentor #Life Is

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

#Mentor #Roles

A mentor is someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself.
-- Oprah Winfrey

#Hope #Mentor

The passion/hunger of the student brings out the experience/wisdom of the mentor.
-- Orrin Woodward

#Passion #Mentor #Students

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

#Careers #People #Mentor

To recognize another's inwardness is to have seen the sacred.
-- Peter Koestenbaum

#Mentor #Sacred #Mentoring

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

#Children #People #Mentor

The best way I can mentor and lead those around me is to embody these qualities myself.
-- Richard Davidson

#Quality #Mentor #Way

Your Mentors in life are important, so choose them wisely
-- Robert Kiyosaki

#Mentor #Important

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 #Mentor

I dont feel like I would be a good mentor. I dont know what I have to offer in that respect. I do this for pretty selfish reasons.
-- Ryan Gosling

#Selfish #Good Man #Mentor

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 #Mentor

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.
-- Sharon Gless

#Player #Mentor #Talent

Excel and you will get a mentor.
-- Sheryl Sandberg

#Mentor

He taught me literature, and he actually taught me how to read. He was my personal mentor.
-- Shimon Peres

#Hygiene #Mentor #Literature

The single most important condition for literacy learning is the presence of mentors who are joyfully literate people.
-- Shirley Brice Heath

#People #Important #Mentor

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

#Mentor #Gone #Lifelong

Johanna glances over at Finnick, to be sure, then turns to me. “How’d you lose Mags?” “In the fog. Finnick had Peeta. I had Mags for a while. Then I couldn’t lift her. Finnick said he couldn’t take them both. She kissed him and walked right into the poison,” I say. “She was Finnick’s mentor, you know,” Johanna says accusingly. “No, I didn’t,” I say. “She was half his family,” she says a few moments later, but there’s less venom behind it.
-- Suzanne Collins

#Fog #Mentor #Half

So at least half the victors have instructed their mentors to request you as an ally. I know it can't be your sunny personality.” “They saw her shoot,” says Peeta with a smile. “Actually, I saw her shoot, for real, for the first time. I'm about to put in a formal request myself.” “You're that good?” Haymitch asks me.
-- Suzanne Collins

#Real #Personality #Mentor

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

#School #Years #Mentor

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.
-- Terrence J

#Mentor #Looks #World

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 #Mentor #Looks