I had many mentors, and they didn't know it.
Any politician is to a certain degree a mentor. They preach something.
I'm proud of my mentors. Ray Charles is the strongest influence on me as a singer
Find a great role model, perhaps someone who struggled and only really succeeded when older. Their biography and what they've done differently from you will help you. If such a person is willing to mentor you or at least allow you to work around them, great.
You can't give a Dementor the old one-two!
But I get a thrill out of bringing a group together and helping them reach a place they didn’t know they could go. I see myself as a mentor now and I’m excited to lead some of these talented young guys.
Seek women mentors. If you're a businesswoman, look at the TEDx conferences. There's a lot of businesswomen that speak on there. I find them extremely inspiring.
Gleason became like a mentor of mine. I had Gleason helping me on television, Godfrey on radio.
The difference in a teacher and a mentor is that a mentor is interested in our soul.
I think it's important for us as a society to remember that the youth within juvenile justice systems are, most of the time, youths who simply haven't had the right mentors and supporters around them - because of circumstances beyond their control.
Your Mentors in life are important, so choose them wisely
It's important to look for mentors all around you.
Anthony Heilbut has been a guide and a mentor to me. I know of no one who has the love and depth of knowledge of this extraordinary author.
The people that are succeeding have often had a mentor of some kind. I think it makes a huge difference.
Mentors are available at all stages of your leadership life - early, middle and late. Seek them out and listen; absorb their knowledge and use it.
What I think the mentor gets is the great satisfaction of helping somebody along, helping somebody take advantage of an opportunity that maybe he or she did not have.
There are moments as a teacher when I'm conscious that I'm trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago. It's an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.
I suspect that every writer is secretly writing for someone.
My mentors are people like Cameron Crowe and Carrie Fisher.
Every 70-year-old needs a young person in their lives to mentor, and every 20-year-old needs a senior.