Inspiring Mentors Quotes & Sayings

I try to wait until things set up just right before I take a trade. Then, when I'm ready to take the trade, I slowly count to ten before I pick up the phone. It's better to have the wrong idea and good timing than the right idea and bad timing. — Linda Bradford Raschke

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. — Jane Fonda

This is the difference between an ordinary scribe and a literary writer. The highest level of literary creation is when the characters in a novel possess life in the mind of the writer. The writer is unable to control them, and might not even be able to predict the next action they will take. We can only follow them in wonder to observe and record the minute details of their lives like a voyeur. — Liu Cixin

The strong spirit empowers others to be stronger souls. — Lailah Gifty Akita

There is enough work for everybody. — Lailah Gifty Akita

This is about me. And how I will never get to be one of those girls, no matter how much I hope and pray and want it. — Abby McDonald

There are some things I wish I never knew, but I am grateful for things that I have learned, too. — A. J. Cook

No amount of talents, skills or charisma can sustain us the way integrity, character & attitude does. — Sidney Mohede

When you get an idea, so many things come in that one moment. You could write the sound of that idea, or the sound of the room it's in. You could write the clothes the character is wearing, what they're saying, how they move, what they look like. Instead of making up, you're actually catching an idea, for a story, characters, place, and mood - all the stuff that comes. — David Lynch

Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love. — Jorge Luis Borges

Has it been found that bodies of men act with more rectitude or greater disinterestedness than individuals? The contrary of this has been inferred by all accurate observers of the conduct of mankind; and the inference is founded upon obvious reasons. Regard to reputation has a less active influence, when the infamy of a bad action is to be divided among a number than when it is to fall singly upon one. — Alexander Hamilton

Neither heredity nor environment determine character. But whether we give in to or overcome the negative messages we are exposed to as we wend our way through life is often determined by whether our parents, teachers, mentors and friends exposed us to good examples and morally inspiring ideas. — Michael Josephson

My idea is to bring happiness, respect, vision. poetry, surrealism and magic [to design]. — Philippe Starck

Once the rain starts falling it's hard to tell it to stop ... — Samantha Young