mentoring relationship Quotes

Only a disciple can make a disciple.

While I made my living as a coach, I have lived my life to be a mentor-and to be mentored!-constantly.Everything in the world has been passed down. Every piece of knowledge is something that has been shared by someone else. If you understand it as I do, mentoring becomes your true legacy. It is the greatest inheritance you can give to others. It is why you get up every day-to teach and be taught.

I love being coached. I get angry when I'm not coached. I ask a lot of questions and certainly appreciate any insight and feedback. I think if you ever stop listening to coaching or stop asking questions, you probably need to be doing something else.

For me Sir Alex was my father in football. He was crucial in my career and, outside football, was a great human being with me. Talent isn't everything. You can have it from the cradle, but it is necessary to learn the trade to be the best.

And James L. Brooks then sort of became our mentor, brought us out to Los Angeles and worked on the script for a year with us. We learned so much working with him - just being able to spend time with him, the quality of his mind, the things he comes up with and says. I think Wes [Anderson] and I could go to dinner tonight and spend the whole dinner thinking and talking about things that Jim has said to us over the years.

Mentoring is a mutuality that requires more than meeting the right teacher: the teacher must meet the right student.

A true pioneer who to me was like a father when I first came into the Dodger organization. He (Walter O'Malley) stood by me, and after my injury he stood by me and helped me through all of my crises.

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life.

Good players want to be coached... Great players want to be told the truth.

Saba: "You want this one to guide you?" Leia: "If you would consider it." Saba: "This one?" Leia: "Yes. I want someone who will challenge me in unexpected ways. I want someone who will teach me what I don't know.

I think you're still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me.

Without my mentors there is no Misty.

Behind every successful child is an adult who believed in him.

My coaches are always my friends. I've always had a coach a year of my life and they're really important part of being a better human for me.

Excel and you will get a mentor.

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.

I have always been a huge believer in the inestimable value good mentoring can contribute to any nascent business

I think the greatest thing we give each other is encouragement...knowing that I'm talking to someone in this mentoring relationship who's interested in the big idea here is very, very important to me. I think if it were just about helping me get to the next step, it would be a heck of a lot less interesting.

Have you ever really had a teacher? One who saw you as a raw but precious thing, a jewel that, with wisdom, could be polished to a proud shine?

Having disciples is in the end like having children, only not with love but with self-love preeminent.

Getting a mentor is the shortcut to success.

I have phenomenal mentors who guide me to maximize my effectiveness.

When it comes to mentors, you can't beat survival.

Remember that mentor leadership is all about serving.