MENTORING
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I've
learned that people will forget what you said, people
will forget what you did, but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
-- Maya
Angelou
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Everyone
has a transferable commodity-knowledge.
Sharing your unique expertise and making introductions for
someone creates a lasting legacy.
Marsha Blackburn
Self-esteem
is a huge piece of my work. You have to believe it's possible
and believe in yourself.
Because after you've decided what you want, you have to
believe it's possible,
and possible for you, not just for other people.
Then you need to seek out models, mentors, and coaches.
-- Jack Canfield
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If
a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder,
he needs the companionship of at least one adult who
can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement
and mystery of the world we live in.
-- Rachel
Carson
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Mentoring
is a brain to pick, an ear to listen, and a push in the
right direction.
-- John C. Crosby
The
six essential leadership attributes:
set high standards; live your standards and mentor those
who follow;
create and share a vision; make the hard choices when necessary;
be visible and outfront; and instill hope in those who follow.
-- John Di Frances
Mentoring
brings us together – across generation, class, and often
race –
in a manner that forces us to acknowledge our interdependence,
to appreciate,
in Martin Luther King, Jr.’s words, that ‘we are caught
in an inescapable network of mutuality,
tied to a single garment of destiny.’
In this way, mentoring enables us to participate in the
essential
but unfinished drama of reinventing community,
while reaffirming that there is an important role for each
of us in it.
-- Marc Freedman
All
kids need is a little help, a little hope, and someone who
believes in them.
-- Earvin "Magic" Johnson
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Of
all the rocks upon which we build our lives, we are
reminded today that family is the most important.
And
we are called to recognize and honor how critical
every father is to that foundation. They are teachers
and coaches. They are mentors and role models. They
are examples of success and the men who constantly
push us toward it. But if we are honest with ourselves,
we'll admit that what too many fathers also are is
missing – missing from too many lives and too many
homes. They have abandoned their responsibilities,
acting like boys instead of men. And the foundations
of our families are weaker because of it.
-- Barack
Obama
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Looking
back across my timeline through school, and indeed in the
early days of teaching,
I see one good thing about being filled with insecurities.
Knowing that I had everything to gain, I seemed to seek
out mentors.
Shirley McPhillips
I think
kids should have a mentor and a role model,
but that they shouldn't take one person's opinion
to be what we call final assessment or judgment about how
life is supposed to be.
Sean Paul
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Example
is not the main thing in influencing others. It is
the only thing.
-- Albert
Schweitzer
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A
mentor is someone who allows you to see the hope inside
yourself.
--
Oprah
Winfrey
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