Mentorship Quotes · Page 67

I was a weirdo to want to be in show business. Most kids wanted to be teachers or nurses.

— Nell Carter

My dad is a lifelong public servant; my mom was a public-school teacher - it's in my DNA.

— Ashley Biden

Most people who decide to grow personally find their first mentors in the pages of books.

— John C. Maxwell

My dad is a retired headmaster and my mum is an ex-teacher. I was taught by both of them.

— Richard Herring

As a teacher in order not to have to answer too many questions, you stretch your answers.

— Desmond Tutu

Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.

— Vernon Howard

“I've always been my own teacher. And I must confess I've been my favorite pupil a well.”

— Anne Rice

On the field, I was probably coaching more, helping players and doing my coaching badges.

— Scott Parker

My performance thrives off the level of my confidence in myself and what I'm feeling, and the confidence that I feel from…

— Weston McKennie

I don't feel I'm qualified to be a coach outside the high school level. I think I would need to do more…

— Carl Lewis

I think just all girls are my mentors. I feel like I've learned everything I know from just being around other women…

— Rowan Blanchard

I had a friend who had been teaching music for a long time, and he knew a bunch of teachers, so I…

— Flea

I've always had coaching in my blood. My dad was a college coach at West Chester and Ursinus so I had a…

— Sean McDermott

I have an MFA in writing. It is debatable if they are right for everyone, but I had a mentor who really…

— Rob Roberge

When you become a head coach, you've played the game; you've coached the game. You have a great understanding of what happens…

— Bill Cowher

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient…

— Anonymous

You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need…

— Dave Eggers

I worked as a draftsman for the Department of Environmental Protection, and as a teacher, in N.Y.C.; at a big bank and…

— Chris Pavone

Your first job as a new coach should be to create a culture of success. You must model, communicate, teach, reward, and…

— Bill Walsh

“Our narrow frames of reference mean that we sometimes forget to value the genius of the waitress who hones awareness in every…

— Bernadette Jiwa

I've had a decent career, I've been a decent player but coaching is a whole different ball game. I can take the…

— Michael Carrick

“In a 1699 book titled Les Aventures de Telemaque, French writer François Fénelon expanded on the relationship between Mentor and Telemachus, recounting…

— Tammy Heflebower

One of the advantages of having gone to Penn State was having had a scholar for a mentor - Philip Young. Also,…

— David Morrell

“CARE program components increase in complexity across sessions and are augmented by individual reflective writing and group discussion. Teachers are given a…

— Patricia A. Jennings

There wasn't a better teacher or mentor out there than Reggie White, on or off the field.

— Brett Favre

My goal is to connect the young teachers to the old, to reignite their sense of struggle.

— Jonathan Kozol

I am working really hard with assistant coaches on both hands, left and right, finishing.

— Bojan Bogdanovic

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

— Robert G. Allen

I just felt like every situation I was in, I had a teacher that really was motivating me.

— John Smoltz

When things are going well on the pitch, it is because I know I have the coach behind me.

— Dimitri Payet

You say that I should be your teacher! See to it that I am your pinion and not your brake.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A mentor's role is to help people discover where they are ignorant of their own ignorance.

— Orrin Woodward

My job as a coach is to make good decisions. It's not to go out there and block or tackle.

— Bill Belichick

“Even teacher learns.. without growing each day how would I be able to teach my students?”

— Yūsei Matsui

I didn't have a coach for two fights. I didn't have any coach at all. I was all by myself.

— The Korean Zombie

When I went to college, my goal was to be a college history teacher. I majored in history.

— George J. Mitchell

I've played for some really good coaches, been on some really good teams. I learned a lot.

— Kyle Korver

I used to be a teacher. I miss the kids and the camaraderie, but it was a lot of pressure.

— Lucy Beaumont

The ideal teacher student relationship exists when the student is better than the teacher.

— Kenzaburo Oe

During my training in pediatrics, I benefited from the talent and wisdom of women mentors.

— Ralph Northam