Thank You To Mentor Quotes & Sayings

I've been hooked on films ever since I can remember renting VHS tapes. But who got me hooked? I think life did. There wasn't a person or a mentor that got me hooked. I think it was the films themselves that influenced me. A specific memory that comes to mind is watching 'Goodfellas' when I was 12 and thought Robert De Niro looked so cool sitting at the bar smoking a cigarette and contemplating his next "move". I actually would copy his faces gestures and try and get into his mind frame. I would borrow mad dad's clothes and pretend I was a Mobster. So I guess I have to thank Robert DeNiro. — Jaime Zevallos

I love living with animals. And my children love animals. I love walking around and being with the horses. But the deer? They're naughty. — Stephanie Seymour

At the moment of waking up, before getting out of bed, get in touch with your breath — Nhat Hanh

The world will avenge itself upon all happiness in which it has no share. — Honore De Balzac

Her last painting was of you, slouching against the front door: only your drowning I-had-a-lousy-Third-World-childhood-and-all-I-got-was-this-attitude eyes recognizable. — Junot Diaz

I might be a dork, but I don't want to be a jerk. — Tom DeLonge

By consciously deciding how you will live the rest of your life, you can create a life that is extraordinary. — Robin Harris

MIKE WOULD LIKE TO THANK: Cus D'Amato, my mentor, friend, and general. Because of you, my life has reached heights I could never have imagined. Without you, I don't know where I would be today. My gratitude to you is immeasurable. — Mike Tyson

It's not where you start or even what happens to you along the way that's important. What is important is that you persevere and never give up on yourself. — Zig Ziglar

Each era invents its own child. Over the past 500 years, conceptions of the child changed gradually from an ill-formed adult who must be subjugated to society's goals to a precious being who must be protected from unreasonable social demands. Childhood has come to be seen as a special period of life, rather than as a temporary state of no lasting importance for adulthood. — Sandra Scarr

Where America was founded on life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, Sharia was founded on death, slavery, and the pursuit of power. — Nick Adams

One road to happiness is to cultivate curiosity about everything. Not only about people but about subjects, not only about the arts but about history and foreign customs. Not only about countries and cities, but about plants and animals. Not only about lichened rocks and curious markings on the bark of trees, but about stars and atoms. Not only about your friends but about that strange labyrinth we inhabit which we call ourselves. Then, if we do that, we will never suffer a moment's boredom ... — Gerald Brenan

I thought The Office was good, though I didn't think of it as a sitcom, just as a very good programme. — Dylan Moran

Whenever he could, he sought out a new road to travel — Paulo Coelho

Never underestimate how easy it is to ruin someone's life. — Brette O'Connell

Though I was excited about the Sojourner Truth play, it was not reassuring to think that my entire future might depend on the success of that one show. — Ethel Waters