Mentor Quotes – Best Mentor Quotes – Inspiring and Motivating

Working on ‘2001’ was my film school. Stanley Kubrick was my mentor.

My nana is a real life mentor, and so is Brad Paisley and a few other idols in country music.

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.’

Just as it’s painful to hear any woman talk about sexual assault, whether true or not, it’s just as painful to watch my friend and mentor go through this.

In a very real way Norman [Lear] godfathered me into my career. He was the best mentor anybody could have ever had.

Basketball, and the people I have met through the game have far and away had the largest impact on my life. Almost every positive role model I have ever had was a coach, mentor, or teammate.

Having more than one mentor is important –
then it’s like having your personal board of directors.

What you want in a mentor is someone who truly cares for you and who will look after your interests and not just their own. When you do come across the right person to mentor you, start by showing them that the time they spend with you is worthwhile.

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.

I never really had role models or guys in the NBA to show me the ropes or be a friend, mentor to me like that.

While my mother tried to stem my truancy, it would be a complete stranger – an Army Officer in the Special Forces home on leave – who would be the mentor to drive home my mother’s goal of getting me educated. His name was Saul Hassan.

Aaron would be the most invested in wanting to get me better. It’s not that other people can’t mentor me, but to have an older brother in a spot like that, he’d always have been helpful to me.

The mentor can be identified by four things: by restraining you from wrongdoing, guiding you towards good actions, telling you what you ought to know, and showing you the path to heaven.

A mentor is someone who sees more talent and ability within you, than you see in yourself, and helps bring it out of you.

My best mentor is a mechanic – and he never left the sixth grade. By any competency measure, he doesn’t have it. But the perspective he brings to me and my life is, bar none, the most helpful.

I floated around in the department of biochemistry and learned some interesting things, and then I began to… I never wanted to work with a mentor because I always wanted to have my own reputation and be free to do what I wanted to do. So I worked with the weakest people in the department. Don’t make that public.

A mentor long departed told me that the greatest gift in political life, in any life, is to view yourself objectively, at arm’s length, to make an assessment of yourself. So whom do I rely on? I rely on myself.

I started writing when I was trying to be an actor, and I happened to be friends with Tina Fey, who happened to have her show ’30 Rock’ coming out. So Tina, who happens to be a mentor to me, gave me my slot and hired me.

I started to read James Baldwin very early on in my life. At a time, as a young adult in the Sixties, when there were not that many authors in whom I could recognize myself, he was an important guide and mentor to me, as he was to many others. He helped me understand who I was and decipher the world around me.

There’s this fabulous innovation ship called Unreasonable at Sea, where I’m a mentor. One of the companies there was called Protei, and they’re an open hardware ocean exploration and monitoring idea.

While I was drawn to the Renaissance, my first (unpublished) novels took place in modern times. When the subject of alchemy started creeping into my stories, an astute mentor observed that the bits about alchemy might fit better in another time frame. When I finally decided to weave the pieces about the medieval science into historical settings, a successful novel began to emerge. (And I dusted off that art history book, and put it to use once again.)

Shortly after I met my mentor he asked me, ‘Mr. Rohn, how much money have you saved and invested over the last six years?’ And I said, ‘None.’ He then asked, ‘Who sold you on that plan?’

I didn’t go to university or get a degree, but I hired somebody as a mentor – and that I considered my university education.

When I came to the industry, many directors like Krishna Vamsi and Puri Jagannath had encouraged me a lot. Krishna Vamsi is my mentor, and I admire him. That’s why I give chances to new directors.

A leader or mentor gives credit to others when things go right, and accepts the blame when things go wrong.

I’m just blessed that I was able to have guys around me that had some of the same goals. The man above gave me a gift and he gave me friends and a mentor that can help me reach my goal and reach my potential. And we all had the same goal, so it wasn’t hard for us to get, you know, off track because we all wanted the same thing.

My biggest mentor is myself because I’ve had to study, so that’s been my biggest influence.

It was very challenging to mentor the mentors, and yes, you do see more sides of my personality.

Bill Gates has always been a mentor and inspiration for me even before I knew him. Just growing up, I admired how Microsoft was mission-focused.

But Clint I love, because Clint was my mentor. I knew nothing about making an Italian movie.