Mentor Quotes - Page 6

• Successful people rely heavily on their mentors. Ordinary people don't. It's that simple.

  Robert G. Allen

  Successful, Simple, People

  Robert G. Allen (2010). “Multiple Streams of Internet Income: How Ordinary People Make Extraordinary Money Online”, John Wiley & Sons

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• Occasionally, I like to select a mentor, a master, and let him guide me through a revision of one of my paintings... I try to move into his terrain, bringing my own ammunition... I do not believe... that this belittles my own personality.

  Rico Lebrun

  Believe, Moving, Personality

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• Conscience, as a mentor, the guide and compass of every act, leads ever to happiness. When the individual can stay alone with his or her conscience and get its approval, without knowing force or specious knowledge, then he or she begins to know what real happiness is.

  William George Jordan

  Real, Knowing, Approval

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

  Ursula Burns

  Mother, Impact

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• 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, Photographer

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• 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, Doe

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

  CJ Roberts

  Heart, Independent, Logic

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• Men, if you are in a position of power or authority, please respectfully continue to mentor and work with talented individuals and those with promise, regardless if they are men or women.

  Carol Roth

  Men, Position Of Power, Promise

  "The Petraeus Scandal Creates a Thicker Glass Ceiling for Women" by Carol Roth, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 27, 2012.

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• 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.

  Q'orianka Kilcher

  Thinking, Justice, Important

  "Q’Orianka Kilcher,BBAACCSS1‘Firelight’ Star, On Playing A Latina Juvenile Delinquent". Interview with Lee Hernandez, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 23, 2012.

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• Excel and you will get a mentor.

  Sheryl Sandberg

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

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• 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, Cameras, Taught

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

  Nicole Trunfio

  Jobs, People, Looks

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• My favourite mentor brother told me that there were three kinds of people: followers, leaders and scouts. Scouts are capeable of leadership, but they could not tolerate the responsibility of it. Disinclined to take orders either, they invariably flouted authority and fomented strife. This is why scouts, he said wryly, were the first to be sent into danger, It was half hoped they would be killed. 'I fear you are destined to trouble us as a scout, little sister' he said

  Isobelle Carmody

  Brother, Responsibility, Order

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• T.I.'s my mentor; he's a really close friend of mine. I call him my brother like we talk on the phone all the time. He's helped me with my career.

  Iggy Azalea

  Brother, Phones, Careers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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, Four, Great Men

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• She believed, and was entitled to believe, I must say, that all human beings were evil by nature, whether tormentors or victims, or idle standers-by. They could only create meaningless tragedies, she said, since they weren't nearly intelligent enough to accomplish all the good they were meant to do.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Believe, Intelligent, Evil

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• I was a theater dork in high school and did all the plays. My theater teacher in high school, Janet Spahr, was absolutely incredible and mentored me throughout school. She taught me a lot about relying on my instincts.

  Melissa Rauch

  Teacher, School, Play

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Some of our most powerful works of art have been produced by older Americans-by hands that have engaged in years of hard work, eyes that have witnessed decades of change, and hearts that have felt a lifetime of emotions. Our whole society benefits when older Americans use their talents and experiences to become involved in the arts as creators, teachers, mentors, volunteers, and audiences.

  Hillary Clinton

  Teacher, Art, Powerful

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• New artists will be discovered and trained. Moreover, when the artists who've gone abroad return home, they can share and pass on skills and knowledge to their peers here. I am certain their stints abroad will make them better artists and mentors. It will teach them discipline and independence. It will broaden their horizons.

  Ryan Cayabyab

  Home, Artist, Here I Am

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• 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, Wanted, Disappointed

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Teachers say their schools of education did not adequately prepare them for the classroom. They would have welcomed more mentoring and feedback in their early years.

  Arne Duncan

  Teacher, School, Years

  "Ask the Teachers" by Sec. Arne Duncan, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 7, 2012.

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• You need mentors, people with that desire to support women and the vision to have more. We have that in Anglo American in a big way.

  Cynthia Carroll

  People, Support, Vision

  "Anglo American chief Cynthia Carroll to step down next year" by Julia Kollewe, www.theguardian.com. October 26, 2012.

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• I never tell students they cannot read a book they pick up, but I do guide them toward books that I think would be a good fit for them. I think of myself as a reading mentor-a reader who can help them find books they might like.

  Donalyn Miller

  Book, Reading, Thinking

  Donalyn Miller (2013). “Reading in the Wild: The Book Whisperer's Keys to Cultivating Lifelong Reading Habits”, p.102, John Wiley & Sons

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• Tommy Smothers is my longest mentor, and Dave Eggers is my youngest.

  Don Novello

  Dave

  "Don Novello's a man of many words, whether he's Father Guido Sarducci, scribbler Lazlo Toth, or even a political candidate" by Heidi Benson, www.sfgate.com. September 18, 2003.

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• Eloquence, to produce her full effect, should start from the head of the orator, as Pallas from the brain of Jove, completely armed and equipped. Diffidence, therefore, which is so able a mentor to the writer, would prove a dangerous counsellor for the orator.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Brain, Able, Should

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.71

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