I was lucky that I met the right mentors and teachers at the right moment.
Government and companies working together to support parents, teachers, and mentors within the community can give kids a strong background in financial literacy.
A creative writing program is only as good as its teachers, and I was fortunate in having two great writers as mentors.
Successful people rely heavily on their mentors. Ordinary people don't. It's that simple.
I was very fortunate to have several mentors in my life that believed in my ability on the football field. It was their support that made me believe that I could do it, too.
I loved Mia Hamm, and I really looked up to Julie Foudy as well, who is one of my mentors.
I have been lucky enough to work with the world's best designers and top stylists - who have been my mentors.
The Peapod Foundation provides tools and mentors encouraging children to express themselves through music and art.
One of the greatest values of mentors is the ability to see ahead what others cannot see and to help them navigate a course to their destination.
Reading, conversation, environment, culture, heroes, mentors, nature – all are lottery tickets for creativity. Scratch away at them and you’ll find out how big a prize you’ve won.
I had great mentors in my parents who always sought to understand the world around them. And they would push me to really think things through.
You need mentors, people with that desire to support women and the vision to have more. We have that in Anglo American in a big way.
William Regal is one of my mentors, and I had been talking with him the whole time I have been away from WWE.
If you get a chance to coach against one of your mentors, and a guy that taught you almost kind of the foundation of what you know about this game, I think it would be a fun, humbling opportunity.
It is important for us to see that our mentors are human and therefore fallible; it makes our own shortcomings more tenable.
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.
Listen to advice from people who have been there and done that. It is so hard to believe that when you are young, but parents, mentors, teachers, they can all be so valuable when it comes to advice.
Don't wait for someone to tap you on the shoulder. Make your goals known and proactively develop relationships with those that can help get you there either in the form of mentors or sponsors.
I think just all girls are my mentors. I feel like I've learned everything I know from just being around other women and learning from them.
In terms of changes, the spiritual mentors teach me that I must not forget those relating primarily to improve myself.
I was lucky that I met the right mentors and teachers at the right moment
I've had a life that has taken many interesting paths. I've learned a lot from mentors who were instrumental in shaping me, and I want to share what I've learned.
To me, mentorships and internships are two big pillars in business development. I believe in having multiple mentors.
I've been so lucky, with incredible mentors along the way, that now I need to be that for someone else.
I grew up with great mentors in my life who helped me become the singer I am today.
Most people who decide to grow personally find their first mentors in the pages of books.
Mine were informal mentors. They were all in my working life.
I'm good at what I do and still improving as I learn from mentors, founders, partners, friends, family, strangers, my own investors, and the experience itself.
I had some great mentors as I was coming up and starting to sing so early - I've been singing since I was four.
I'd like to think that my mentors, I've had the highest of education and one thing I've always noted, they were always writing stuff down, taking notes.
I have a lot of heroes. I don't think people give enough of a tribute to their mentors. They try to act like they're spontaneous generations - they are faking liars.
I was born to a single mother and often struggled to find my next meal. With the right opportunities from public education and mentors, I achieved the American dream.
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.
I've had great writing teachers and mentors and great success with my first book.
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.
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.
Supremely, spiritual directors/mentors/pastors are persons who have a sense of being 'established' in God. Otherwise they are too dangerous to be allowed into the soul space of others.
Supremely, spiritual directors/mentors/pastors are persons who have a sense of being established in God. Otherwise they are too dangerous to be allowed into the soul space of others.
God puts mentors in your path. They may not look like you, sound like you, or be what you expect. But they always know more that you.
Ask the proficient athlete, artist, businessperson, or homemaker what creates excellence and they'll all agree: a commitment to long-term goals - and with a community of mentors and fellow "disciples."
Trusted counselors, mentors and guides make an indelible mark on the lives they touch, and they provide the two ingredients to success in life--caring and sharing--that cannot be learned or purchased.
Decide the friends, mentors & leaders you want in your life, in your inner circle, and court them with emotional generosity. Make it matter.
David and Ellen Siminoff are legends in Silicon Valley - they are two of the most influential mentors to top executives and leaders behind the scenes, with long track records of success.
Seek out counsel and be a mentor to people, because then they learn how to be mentors.
Are any of us self-taught? It just means I didn't go to school for it. But you do have teachers. You have mentors.
The single most important condition for literacy learning is the presence of mentors who are joyfully literate people.
You know, you do need mentors, but in the end, you really just need to believe in yourself.
Why is it that English, drama and music teachers are most often recalled as our mentors and inspirations? Maybe because artists are rarely members of the popular crowd.
My personal narrative - I was lucky early on in my career to have some really strong mentors. I didn't realize it at the time, but that's what really built me up.
Different mentors throughout my life have supported and guided me to remember that I do have the strength, courage and talent to do whatever I want to do.
Mentors of mine were under a big pressure to minimize their femininity to make it. I'm not going to do that. That takes away my power. I'm not going to compromise who I am.
People need to be in charge of their development plan. They need to seek out their sponsors and their mentors and be very strategic.
I have mentors like Erykah Badu. She's been like a big sister to me.
I've been very, very lucky because I've had so many great mentors.
As a woman leader, I try to take every opportunity I can to do what my mentors did for me - engaging with young women and take them seriously.
I've met people and have mentors that have taught me and I'm still trying to get better today.
I encourage all of you to seek out teachers and mentors that challenge you to think for yourself and guide you to find your own voice.
My success was due to good luck, hard work, and support and advice from friends and mentors. But most importantly, it depended on me to keep trying after I had failed.
The most advanced, creative and original thinking is always a product of historical context and the influences of previous geniuses, mentors, and collaborators on the mind of the originator.
My life has been immensely enriched by gay mentors, colleagues and friends, and any discrimination and persecution of gay people is unacceptable.
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