#mentors

I'm proud of my mentors. Ray Charles is the strongest influence on me as a singer. ↗

— Michael Bolton

#i #influence #me #mentors #proud

Obama might do well to remember that his fast rise from the Illinois state Senate was due in large part to an uncanny ability to make friends and find mentors. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#due #fast #find #friends #his

Dementors are among the foulest creatures that walk this earth. They infest the darkest, filthiest places, they glory in decay and despair, they drain peace, hope, and happiness out of the air around them. Even Muggles feel their presence, though they can’t see them. Get too near a Dementor and every good feeling, every happy memory will be sucked out of you. If it can, the Dementor will feed on you long enough to reduce you to something like itself — soul-less and evil. You’ll be left with nothing but the worst experiences of your life. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#lupin #experience

The things I was allowed to experience, the people I was able to call friends, teammates, mentors, coaches and opponents, the travel, all of it, are far more than anything I ever thought possible in my lifetime. ↗

— Curt Schilling

#allowed #anything #call #coaches #ever

I was lucky enough to have great mentors both in the culinary world and in the world of chefs who became celebrities. Bobby Flay is one of my dearest friends and a tremendous mentor for me. Mario Batali is the same way. They began doing TV a little before me and they showed me the way. ↗

— Michael Symon

#before #began #bobby #both #celebrities

And I'd watch George C. Scott from backstage. He was one of my mentors. ↗

— Jeffrey Tambor

#george #i #mentors #scott #watch

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel. ↗

— Socrates

#enlightenment #learning #lifelong-learning #mentorship #education

You treat characters like people you meet in life-friends or mentors. ↗

— Wes Bentley

#like #meet #mentors #people #treat

You’ve got to lick yourself into shape. Nobody can do it for you. The man who dreams of artistry, and yet thinks it is necessary for somebody else to lick him into shape, is a man whose art is doomed to be mediocre. Please believe me, this is not harshness on my part: it is the harshness of the nature of the game that I am exposing to you. If you are going to deliver the real goods, you’ve got to do your own licking into shape. ↗

— Jack London

#mentorship #writing #art

If today's churches, companies and organizations want to be thriving tomorrow, they have an obligation to coach and mentor the new generation of leaders. ↗

— Wayde Goodall

#leadership #mentorship #leadership