Mentoring Quotes - Page 3

No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.

Lincoln began to emerge from his funk by helping a coworker who looked up to him out of a funk of his own.

The insights given by a great professor are a privilege to receive. To be a teacher, by contrast, calls for more ingenuity and patience; it is the canny art of coaxing insights out of the students themselves.

—Help these boys build a nation their own. Ransack the histories for clues to their past. Plunder the literatures for words they can speak. And should you encounter an ancient tribe whose customs, however dimly, cast light on their hearts, tell them that tale; and you shall name the unspeakable names of your kind, and in that naming, in each such telling, they will falter a step to the light."—For only with pride may a man prosper. With pride, all things follow. Without he have pride he is a shadowy skulk whose season is night.

Your most important task as a leader is to teach people how to think and ask the right questions so that the world doesn't go to hell if you take a day off.

The mediocre leader tells. The good leader explains. The superior leader demonstrates. The great leader inspires.

Mentors change lives, but students change mentors’ lives more.

If you ask an Irishman for directions, he might be quick to answer, Well if I were going there, I would not start here.

The most beautiful people are those who bring out the beauty in others.

This is the pedagogical paradox. The person and the teacher is required precisely because the knowledge itself is nontransferable from teacher to student.

An employee made a mistake that cost the company $10 million, he walked into the office of Tom Watson, the C.E.O., expecting to get fired. “Fire you?” Mr. Watson asked. “I just spent $10 million educating you.

Remember that mentor leadership is all about serving. Jesus said, “For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve others and to give his life as a ransom for many” (Mark 10:45).

I was made to feel I could do things. If you get this feeling early and can hold it until you're 15, you tend to never lose it.

Shanahan (the head coach) doesn't allow failure to take root.

The better we serve, the greater the fulfilment.

Standing on the shoulders of the great allows you to see further than everyone.

Your child may be under more stress than you realize. Remember that situations around to past experiences. Just because you do not see something as a big deal does not mean it is not for your child.

Adams looks forward to teaching his granddaughters about planting trees, noting that they already show inclination toward this and need only be encouraged in the naturalist pursuits he has found so healthy.

Quoting an experienced school counselor: "You can't change a bully into a flower child, but you can change him into a knight.

Decide in your heart to be at peace with all men.