
“Most people who decide to grow personally find their first mentors in the pages of books.”
Source: The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth: Live Them and Reach Your Potential
Source: The Siege of Macindaw
“Most people who decide to grow personally find their first mentors in the pages of books.”
Source: The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth: Live Them and Reach Your Potential
“Disillusionment, pain, unpleasant surprise, all were part of growing up.”
Source: The Marianne Trilogy, Marianne, the Madame, and the Momentary Gods (1988), Chapter 1 (p. 6)
“I never had a mentor. I was forced to make myself up as I went along.”
The Economist, 1st October 2011, p. 89
"Meeting with Enrique Lihn" (The New Yorker,December 22, 2008)
Context: Literature was a vast minefield occupied by enemies, except for a few classic authors (just a few), and every day I had to walk through that minefield, where any false move could be fatal, with only the poems of Archilochus to guide me. It’s like that for all young writers. There comes a time when you have no support, not even from friends, forget about mentors, and there’s no one to give you a hand; publication, prizes, and grants are reserved for the others, the ones who said “Yes, sir,” over and over, or those who praised the literary mandarins, a never-ending horde distinguished only by their aptitude for discipline and punishment — nothing escapes them and they forgive nothing.
“Glad my name came up. Thank audience, mentor, all who made my workplace enjoyable.”
On getting the Padma Bhushan Award, the third highest civilian award of India for his five decades in the film industry, in Glad my name came up', Kamal Hassan on Padma Bhushan (26 January 2014) http://zeenews.india.com/entertainment/celebrity/glad-my-name-came-up-kamal-hassan-on-padma-bhushan_149777.html
“Childhood is precious… Hardest part of growing up? Is growing up, I think.”
David Webb Show http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/08/05/ohio-male-rnc-member-calls-carly-fiorina-hot-babe/ (5 August 2015).
2010s, 2015, David Webb Show (August 2015)
“My mistakes have been my greatest mentors.”
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 73