Mentoring Quotes

I remember the mentoring experiences of some teachers that I had, like a second term home room teacher in public school that really was very helpful to me. (Sanford Weill)
I've since discovered that many human beings need no supernatural mentoring to commit acts of savagery; some people are devils in their own right, their telltale horns having grown inward to facilitate their disguise. View quote
Dean Koontz
I'll happily mentor anyone who wants mentoring, and most of that goes on by internet rather than face to face. View quote
Bernard Cornwell
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. View quote
Arne Duncan
In a battery, I strive to maximize electrical potential. When mentoring, I strive to maximize human potential. View quote
Donald Sadoway
Mentoring is a brain to pick, an ear to listen, and a push in the right direction. View quote
John Crawford Crosby
Small businesses, you can give them capital, but what they often need as much is mentoring, advice and help with their business plan. View quote
Karen Mills
It's not government that creates jobs; it's small business. Our job is to make sure they have the access to capital, the access to contracting opportunities, and the help, advice and mentoring that they need to go out and be successful. View quote
Karen Mills
There is strong mentoring of women in the academy. Corporations appear more willing to resist affirmative action to advance women, and boards and shareholders are more tolerant of this approach. View quote
Ruth J. Simmons
When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's when I first gained an appreciation of the Harlem Renaissance, a time when African-Americans rose to prominence in American culture. For the first time, they were taken seriously as artists, musicians, writers, athletes, and as political thinkers. View quote
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
The problem with feminism in the second wave was that we fought so much among ourselves, and I think we did so much damage to the movement... and I think the next wave, the third wave, is women mentoring younger women and women helping younger women to enter the political process and the writing world. (Erica Jong)
I truly felt, ultimate objective aside, that the Marines had something beautiful about them. Fraternity, initiation, mentoring, honor, valor, duty-beautiful male attributes in a society in which masculinity is maligned. I can get a bit like that, a bit D. H. Lawrence, a bit jazzed on unexamined humanity. When I chatted on camera to a pair of perfectly assembled teen Marines who sat handsomely in their fatigues, rifles pristine and bolt upright at their sides, I was overwhelmed by the salvation that the military offers to boys that may otherwise have fallen through the cracks. View quote
Russell Brand
I take mentoring very seriously and as a result I hardly get any work done during the school year. View quote
Tayari Jones
Aiki lab is a place for sharing, creation, collaboration, research, development, mentoring, and of course, learning. View quote
Bassel Khartabil
I love mentoring young girls. I've always been like that. View quote
Naomi Campbell
Other than my foundation - mentoring programs - everything I do is for money. View quote
Steve Harvey
I'd have to say I'm most proud of my mentoring camp that I do in Dallas every year for one hundred boys from single-parent homes. I was raised by a mother who was a Sunday school teacher and a father who worked hard. Together they taught me to give back. View quote
Steve Harvey
The biggest thing I want to see is that people have the drive to succeed. If they can 'take it or leave it,' I don't do business with them. I enjoy mentoring. I like people who want to learn. View quote
Tilman J. Fertitta
If we don't invest now in so-called priority neighbourhoods with music classes, athletic facilities, and skills training and mentoring, we will all pay more in the long run. View quote
Dan Hill
I take my mentoring responsibilities very seriously. View quote
Erin O'Connor
If you're an older sibling and you have a younger sibling who needs mentoring or is afraid of the dark, you develop nurturing and empathic skills that you wouldn't otherwise have. (Jeffrey Kluger)
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. View quote
Jeffrey Kluger
As I see with Lori's testimony, you say what good could come out of all these abortions and all what she's been through? But she has been a part of a new Bible for women, a mentoring Bible. View quote
Jim Bakker
If you feel your school is failing you, the question is why. Is it a lack of parental involvement, large classes, school violence, poor learning environment? Are there any standards to determine where problems are? Are there tutoring or mentoring programs? If the school is still failing after 3 years then what are your options? View quote
John G. Rowland
Brands must empower their community to be change agents in their own right. To that end, they need to take on a mentoring role. This means the brand provides the tools, techniques and strategies for their customers to become more effective marketers in achieving their own goals. View quote
Simon Mainwaring