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• I love to brainstorm. I like to mentor. When you're starting out, especially as an entrepreneur, you really don't know what you're doing. You go out there and you try so many things. The key in the process, to me, is that you keep trying and you never give up.

  Debbi Fields

  Giving Up, Keys, Entrepreneur

  "Debbi Fields Talks The Importance Of Persistence And Staying Present In ORIGIN Magazine". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 27, 2013.

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• I've been hooked on films ever since I can remember renting VHS tapes. But who got me hooked? I think life did. There wasn't a person or a mentor that got me hooked. I think it was the films themselves that influenced me. A specific memory that comes to mind is watching 'Goodfellas' when I was 12 and thought Robert De Niro looked so cool sitting at the bar smoking a cigarette and contemplating his next "move". I actually would copy his faces gestures and try and get into his mind frame. I would borrow mad dad's clothes and pretend I was a Mobster. So I guess I have to thank Robert DeNiro.

  Jaime Zevallos

  Memories, Dad, Moving

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I've never had help from anyone, ever. I've never had this great director who saw themselves in me, because I'm a French woman in Hollywood. Who could identify with me as a successful director in Hollywood? Nobody. And the few people who could have been mentors, instead they just stole my ideas.

  Julie Delpy

  Successful, Ideas, People

  "Julie Delpy: Male Directors Have Stolen My Ideas". Interview with Emily Zemler, www.elle.com. March 22, 2016.

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• Nothing will have more impact on the future of the world than for each of us to find out why we were born and to do it. Human beings tend to do this when parents, teachers and other mentors invite us to it.

  Oliver DeMille

  Teacher, Impact, Parent

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• What is left that only the family can do? According to the new economy - nothing. The leading view today is 'It Takes a Village,' that even love can be outsourced to teachers, coaches, clubs and mentors. The truth is that it does take a village, a community, but a community of families working, playing, cooperating and facing obstacles together, not a community of government institutions.

  Oliver DeMille

  Teacher, Government, Views

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• What the great mentor is always looking for is a person who is willing to tap his genius, to put it through the refiner's fire, to do the hard work to develop it. Indeed, mentoring is the medieval art of alchemy-turning plain old human steel into hearts and minds of gold.

  Oliver DeMille

  Art, Hard Work, Fire

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• So when this opportunity came up through Elisabeth Murdoch and her company Shine, to be an executive producer and actually be part of the show, I liked the idea because I like the word mentor. I don't want to judge someone. I like sharing my knowledge with my girls, and anything they ask me I'll try to do to help them. Any of my real friends who know me, know that's how I really am.

  Naomi Campbell

  Girl, Real, Opportunity

  Interview Magazine Interview, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 12, 2013.

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• A real friend or mentor isn't on your payroll.

  Prince

  Real, Real Friends, Payroll

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• The next step is for the great teachers to arise, and for them to clearly understand the challenges ahead and mentor accordingly. Where most generations focus the education of their children on preparing to make a living or succeed financially, leadership generations are taught by parents who see a higher role for their children.

  Oliver DeMille

  Teacher, Children, Focus

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• Barack Obama is the most Jewish president we've ever had (except for Rutherford B. Hayes). No president, not even Bill Clinton, has traveled so widely in Jewish circles, been taught by so many Jewish law professors, and had so many Jewish mentors, colleagues, and friends, and advisers as Barack Obama.

  Jeffrey Goldberg

  Law, Circles, President

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• The late Rev. Peter Gomes at The Memorial Church at Harvard was a true mentor to me when I was in college. He instilled in me a commitment to service, saying that it's not enough to believe in service, or support those who serve - you ought to find a way yourself to serve. When I looked at different options after college, nobody inspired me more than the 18- and 19-year-olds who serve on the front lines of our nation's military. Serving with them in the Marines as we together served our country was the greatest honor of my life to date.

  Seth Moulton

  Country, Military, Believe

  "Congress at War". www.politico.com. July, 2015.

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• I'm really thankful to have my own record label. I've always looked up to people like Madonna when she launched Maverick Records. Even Jay Z and Sean "Puffy" Combs, who's a mentor and also gave me a shot when I was an independent artist in Atlanta. He came to my show, and he said, "I just want people to know about you."

  Janelle Monae

  Independent, Artist, Atlanta

  "Janelle Monae: 'Silence is our enemy, and sound is our weapon'". Interview with Brittany Vickers, www.cnn.com. October 22, 2015.

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• What is desired is that the teacher ceased being a lecturer, satisfied with transmitting ready-made solutions. His role should rather be that of a mentor stimulating initiative and research.

  Jean Piaget

  Teacher, Roles, Research

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• I consider Otto Rank to be one of the great spiritual giants of the twentieth century, a genius as a psychologist and a saint as a human being. Though vilified by his original community of Freudians, he never became bitter. He died a feminist and deeply committed to social justice, in 1939....His deep understanding of creativity makes him a mentor for all of us living in a postmodern world....I believe that Art and Artist, especially chapters 12 to 14, may well emerge as the most valuable psychoanalysis of the spiritual life in our time.

  Matthew Fox

  Spiritual, Art, Believe

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• And some needs and hurts are so deep they will only respond to a mentor's touch or a pastor's prayer. Church and charity, synagogue and mosque, lend our communities their humanity, and they will have an honored place in our plans and laws.

  George W. Bush

  Hurt, Prayer, Humor

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 2001

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• Who were my mentors in poetry and literature? This is a matter of opinion. Some see in my books the influences of authors whose names, in my ignorance, I have not even heard, while others see the influences of poets whose names I have heard but whose writings I have not read. And what is my opinion? From whom did I receive nurture? Not every man remembers the name of the cow which supplied him with each drop of milk he has drunk.

  Shmuel Yosef Agnon

  Book, Writing, Ignorance

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• I'm proud to be Archie's son. Being a quarterback, I had my mentor and hero living in the same house.

  Peyton Manning

  Hero, Son, Nfl

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• Gabby Giffords was a mentor of mine in the state Legislature and also in Congress.

  Ann Kirkpatrick

  Legislature, States, Congress

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• 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

  Teacher, Believe, People

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• Getting a mentor is the shortcut to success.

  Bo Sanchez

  Shortcuts

  Bo Sanchez “The Old Path Of Loving Relationship”, Shepherds Voice Publications, Inc.

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• I think a role model is a mentor - someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them.

  Denzel Washington

  Life, Success, Faith

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• The best gift you can ever give your mentor is to grow. They feed off your growth. I believe that everyone has the seed of success inside, but too many people can't find it in themselves and as a result do not reach their potential. But there are those whose purpose in life is to fertilize the seed of potential in another, who are rewarded by seeing that person grow and blossom before their eyes. Raising up others to a higher level is a mentor's joy and sustenance.

  John C. Maxwell

  Believe, Eye, Giving

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• I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

  Elie Wiesel

  Peace, Bystanders, History

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.170, Schocken

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• As nearly as possible in the spirit of Matthew Salinger, age one, urging a luncheon companion to accept a cool lima bean, I urge my editor, mentor and (heaven help him) closest friend, William Shawn, genius domus of The New Yorker, lover of the long shot, protector of the unprolific, defender of the hopelessly flamboyant, most unreasonably modest of born great artist-editors to accept this pretty skimpy-looking book.

  J. D. Salinger

  Love, Book, Artist

  "The Mistakes in This Essay Are My Own" by John Maxwell Hamilton, www.nytimes.com. April 15, 1990.

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• Reading, conversation, environment, culture, heroes, mentors, nature – all are lottery tickets for creativity. Scratch away at them and you’ll find out how big a prize you’ve won.

  Twyla Tharp

  Reading, Hero, Creativity

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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