Mentors Quotations

Not just my parents, but teachers, friends, mentors - a host of people are to be thanked for any success I have had, and a whole lot of just plain luck.

For the jihadists, Muslim women who embrace Western mores, and wear tight jeans or mini skirts, are hated symbols of corruption that need to be eradicated. For the ideological mentors of Breivik, a similar disturbance comes from the burqa, which is banned in France and Belgium, partly thanks to their efforts.

The biggest difference is in the leadership. It was better for us. We had more coaches and mentors to help us. A lot of the younger players today suffer from a lack of direction.

Mentors provide professional networks, outlets for frustration, college and career counseling, general life advice, and most importantly, an extra voice telling a student they are smart enough and capable enough to cross the stage at graduation and land their first paycheck from a career pathway job.

It took me a few years to explain to my colleagues and my mentors and the people that I looked up to and I wrestled that I'm not in wrestling anymore. I'm in sports entertainment. Pro' wrestling doesn't mean that we're saying we're a step up above amateur wrestling, because there's nothing above Olympic wrestling.

I feel like I've done a pretty good job of scaling because I got some great mentors along the way that helped me realize I just have to build a phenomenal team around me that makes my job a lot easier.

We are proud to join Mrs. Bush and continue our successful partnership with Big Brothers Big Sisters of America with this new advertising, which has the potential to positively impact so many young people in our country. I am confident that these touching ads will encourage many more adults to become mentors and bring magic into a child's life.

Mentors don't have to be the Daymond Johns or the Mark Cubans. A person running a successful bodega or a tax firm in your community for the last 20 years, that person is working just as much as the individual who's running General Mills.

No guidance. Not enough mentors to teach younger people what's right and what's wrong.

We think (field study) gives us a competitive advantage, ... Plus, in Minnesota, there is a very high degree of social responsibility, where top executives are serving as mentors to our students.

Hamilton-Wenham is currently collecting data to develop strategies, and Lynn has a whole study done up on risk factors along with protective factors and building strong neighborhoods. Many communities are forming coalitions trying to get parents engaged in the issue and building communication so they can be mentors in the situation.

Our kids need role models. The benefits of having more coaches of color as mentors for our kids of color would be tremendous.

My mentors were my editiors. You come from location work with a million people and questions, and you get into the editing room, and its two people.

I was real lucky to have him already. We're very fortunate to have a manager of this quality already in our system to put in Daytona. Don Buford was one of my mentors when I signed as a player with the Orioles.

We've moved very deliberately. The program is both structured and measurable. Accountability is essential, so the companies and mentors must agree on measurable objectives for their work together. Quarterly progress reviews and other assessments keep the businesses on track.

We need mentors who are extremely dependable and consistent. These children, they've had many disappointments in their lives. We try to avoid that.

To become the best possible writer, one must keep learning and building up networks, which is why the publication and the mentors are so important. Our mentors and alumni especially provide a really good literary network that most writers cannot obtain.

We are definitely looking for males. We have plenty of girl mentors but males are what we need. There are currently 25 children in the program and about 20 on the waiting list. Half of the kids are boys.

When they enter seventh grade, they are dispersed throughout the school so that there are mentors in every classroom.

We are looking for mentors and sponsors. It's not a cheap competition. We are not funded by the district, and there is a need for money with technological equipment.

The fact that the National Academies is recognizing the efforts of teachers and mentors is indicative of how much importance they are placing on national higher education.

Women in business are talented leaders who can share their skills as trainers, mentors and advocates.

We ask the mentors to stay for a year, but some stay together for years and even after high school.

We have mentors in a whole range of ages.

Financial help is really what we need right now. We also need lunches for the fall classes, mentors and babysitters.

It was to discuss the climate on campus and what mentors can do to help students in these situations. We asked every dorm to do the floor meetings. They have been taking place for about the past week, since right after spring break.

That's where the mentors come in. We make a commitment for at least one year to meet with a specific student weekly. We shoot hoops, play board games, help out a little bit with homework if needed basically we become a friend.

Ain't no telling where I could be. At Rebecca Williams, you had to sign in and they could tell if you were there or not there. It's a good thing because you had mentors down there. Everything was there. It was the greatest experience ever for a kid.

Your environment doesn't define you. I don't have a lot of money, but I can help train people and I can talk to people. We can all be mentors to the next generation.

There need to be champions at each level, mentors on the front line to place a high value on partnering with schools and having interns in the workplace.

It's great to see Kenny's level of desire and determination. I expect to learn a lot from him. Some of the veteran drivers are not the best mentors because in this sport everybody is looking out for himself. But I can trust Kenny and I know he'll be a great mentor. They say you're only as good as the company you keep, and in racing there's no better company than Ken Schrader.

It's a neat thing to have the student company create artistic situations where they can share in the creation of the project all around. We put them in contact with adult mentors and help them to discover their own abilities and to give them as many opportunities as possible.

Not even Tombaugh and his mentors could have forecast how fascinating their new planet would turn out to be.

It's really a situation where they're more mentors than coaches. There's a lot of good people on the staff.

If we brought mentors in it would help us. I think it will give kids a chance to learn more than they ever thought they could at school.

If you are starving and young and in search of answers as to why your life is so difficult, fundamentalism can be alluring. We know this for a fact because former members of Boko Haram have admitted it: They offer impressionable young people money and the promise of food, while the group's mentors twist their minds with fanaticism.

I have worked for a lot of really great leaders and mentors that I felt provided me, along with many of my peers - many of them women - opportunities.

I believe God has a path for me. He's always had a path for me, and I've always been in the right place at the right time - not because of my efforts, but because of my preparation and because of the guides that I have, the mentors that I have, the spiritual walkers that I've had all my life.

The film 'Documented,' a project of the nonprofit and nonpartisan Define American campaign, is about my families: the family I was blessed to be born into, and the family of friends, mentors and allies that I found when I moved to the United States at 12, a Filipino kid trying to make sense of my new home in America.

All of these components coming together will provide the mentors and the teachers for the next generation of New Orleans jazz and blues musicians.