Mentors Quotes

The biggest difference is in the leadership. It was better for us. We had more coaches and mentors to help us. A lot of the younger players today suffer from a lack of direction.
Isaiah Thomas

Leadership, Today, Help

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

Love, History, Art

My success was due to good luck, hard work, and support and advice from friends and mentors. But most importantly, it depended on me to keep trying after I had failed.
Mark Warner

Success, Work, Good

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

Obama might do well to remember that his fast rise from the Illinois state Senate was due in large part to an uncanny ability to make friends and find mentors.
Ron Fournier

Remember, Friends, Find

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

Experience, Travel, Thought

Listen to advice from people who have been there and done that. It is so hard to believe that when you are young, but parents, mentors, teachers, they can all be so valuable when it comes to advice.
Lauren Conrad

Parents, Hard, Done

My mentors are people like Cameron Crowe and Carrie Fisher.
Courtney Love

Cameron, Fisher, Carrie

Emotional 'literacy' implies an expanded responsibility for schools in helping to socialize children. This daunting task requires two major changes: that teachers go beyond their traditional mission and that people in the community become more involved with schools as both active participants in children's learning and as individual mentors.
Daniel Goleman

Learning, Emotional, Children

Your environment doesn't define you. I don't have a lot of money, but I can help train people and I can talk to people. We can all be mentors to the next generation.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Money, Help, Talk

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

Moment, Lucky, Teachers

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

Great, Friends, Enough

Dr. Cox mentors the rookie doctors with a spoonful of dirt and then a cup of sugar. I see him as an archetypal descendent of two of my favorite curmudgeonly characters: Lou Grant and Louie De Palma.
John C. McGinley

Him, Two, Favorite

I've seen that phenomenally successful people believe they can learn something from everybody. I call them 'mavericks with mentors.' Richard Branson, for instance, is a total maverick but he surrounds himself with incredibly successful, smart people and he listens to them.
Brendon Burchard

Smart, Successful, Learn

I have, I think, eight mentors. It's crazy, but I need them. They are all really important to me. They keep me grounded and advise me.
Jamie Bell

Crazy, Important, Keep

A lot of people put pressure on themselves and think it will be way too hard for them to live out their dreams. Mentors are there to say, 'Look, it's not that tough. It's not as hard as you think. Here are some guidelines and things I have gone through to get to where I am in my career.'
Joe Jonas

Dreams, Live, Hard

We've never performed the song live outside of recording it in the studio. That was a dream come true because Whitney, she's an icon and she's been one of my main mentors in this business.
Deborah Cox

Business, Live, True

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

Work, Best, Enough

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

Proud, Influence, Singer

I take mentoring very seriously and I am on the board of an organization called Girls Write Now, where we match teen girls and writing mentors because it changes their lives.
Tayari Jones

Teen, Writing, Write

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

Artists, Begins, Context

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

Life, Working, Mine

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

Watch, Backstage, George

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

Treat, Meet, Characters

I encourage all of you to seek out teachers and mentors that challenge you to think for yourself and guide you to find your own voice.
Renee Olstead

Yourself, Find, Challenge

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

Great, Since, Singing

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