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• 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, Teammate, Opponents

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• We encourage people to believe that there is only one identity, one role, one way for them to be, one value for them to fulfill, rather than a host of possible 'incarnations' to be lived in a lifetime.

  Sidney Jourard

  Believe, People, Identity

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• Here's my feeling: For everyone, men and women, it's important to be a feminist. It's important to have female characters. It's wonderful for women to mentor other women, but it's just as important for women to mentor men and vice-versa. In my line of work, having Greg Daniels be such a great mentor to me is fantastic. Finding a writer's assistant, be it a man or a woman, and encouraging them to think with a feminist perspective, is key.

  Mindy Kaling

  Character, Men, Thinking

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• 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, Want, Helping

  Source: collider.com

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• 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, Thinking, Eight

  "Bell De Jour" by Chrissy Iley, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2005.

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

  Bernard Cornwell

  Goes On, Want, Faces

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• My sensei was a British karate champion named Brian Fitkin. He was my mentor and because I had a hard relationship with my dad, he became a father figure to me.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Dad, Father, Champion

  Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.menshealth.com. August 15, 2012.

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

  Eli Wallach

  Italian

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• A sound philosophy of life, I think, may be the most valuable asset for a psychiatrist to have when he is treating a patient.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Philosophy, Thinking, Sound

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• 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

  Illinois, Might, Remember

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• I think kids should have a mentor and a role model, but that they shouldn't take one person's opinion to be what we call final assessment or judgment about how life is supposed to be.

  Sean Paul

  Kids, Thinking, Assessment

  "Reasoning with Sean Paul". Interview with Laura Gardner, jahworks.org. October 01, 2002.

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• I suspect that every writer is secretly writing for someone.

  Brewster Ghiselin

  Writing, Suspects

  Brewster Ghiselin (1985). “The Creative Process: A Symposium”, p.126, Univ of California Press

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• Older siblings get more total-immersion mentoring with their parents before younger siblings come along. As a result, they get an IQ and linguistic advantage because they are the exclusive focus of their parents' attention.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Sibling, Parent, Focus

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• I have started my own foundation. It's called Follow Your Art. It's at its infancy but my goal is to mentor teenage girls through one of the most difficult times in their lives.

  Nadine Velazquez

  Girl, Art, Teenage

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

  Tayari Jones

  School, Years, Done

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• True understanding is the spur of genius

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Understanding, Spurs, Genius

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• I come here tonight as a sister, blessed with a brother who is my mentor, my protector and my lifelong friend. And I come here as a wife who loves my husband and believes he will be an extraordinary president.

  Michelle Obama

  Brother, Husband, Believe

  Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 25 August 2008, INVESCO Field at Mile High Stadium, Denver, Colorado

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• 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, Teens

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• God answers our prayers not because we are good, but because He is good.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  God, Faith, Christian

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• You are only as powerful as your mentors.

  Robert G. Allen

  Powerful

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• God is looking for those with whom He can do the impossible - what a pity that we plan only the things that we can do by ourselves.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Faith, God, Christian

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• Don't expect a great day; create one.

  Bob Proctor

  Inspirational, Attitude, Creating

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• We need to stop telling [women], "Get a mentor and you will excel." Instead, we need to tell them, "Excel and you will get a mentor.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Needs

  Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.77, Knopf

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• It's important to look for mentors all around you.

  Maureen Chiquet

  Important

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• By thinking about your goals every morning, many times during the day, and every night, you begin moving toward it, and bringing it toward you.

  Bob Proctor

  Inspirational, Change, Success

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Jan 20, 2013

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