#mentor

The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful. ↗

— H.L. Mencken

#teacher #teacher

Sure you can manage that broom, Potter?" said a cold, drawling voice. Draco Malfoy had arrived for a closer look, Crabbe and Goyle right behind him. "Yeah, reckon so," said Harry casually. "Got plenty of special features, hasn't it?" said Malfoy, eyes glittering maliciously. "Shame it doesn't come with a parachute - in case you get too near a Dementor." Crabbe and Goyle sniggered. "Pity you can't attach an extra arm to yours, Malfoy," said Harry. "Then it could catch the Snitch for you. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#harry-potter #humour #snitch #prison

You can exist without your soul, you know, as long as your brain and heart are still working. But you’ll have no sense of self anymore, no memory, no . . . anything. There’s no chance at all of recovery. You’ll just — exist. As an empty shell. And your soul is gone forever . . . lost. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#dementors-kiss #empty #existence #remus-lupin #soul

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

— Michael Bolton

#i #influence #me #mentors #proud

Karl Malden was quite a mentor. He taught me things he had learned from being in front of a camera so long. ↗

— Gary Cole

#camera #front #had #karl #learned

But Clint I love, because Clint was my mentor. I knew nothing about making an Italian movie. ↗

— Eli Wallach

#because #clint #i #i love #italian

There are many ways to be a mother. I have a lot of young actors I mentor, and my nieces and my nephews need a lot of love. ↗

— Kim Cattrall

#lot #love #many #mentor #mother

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. ↗

— Jackie Joyner-Kersee

#environment #generation #help #i #i can

I come here tonight as a sister, blessed with a brother who is my mentor, my protector and my lifelong friend. And I come here as a wife who loves my husband and believes he will be an extraordinary president. ↗

— Michelle Obama

#blessed #brother #come #extraordinary #friend

In my teens, I worked as an aide in my community supervising and mentoring youth in various programs and delivering lunches to needy students. ↗

— Hilda Solis

#community #delivering #i #mentoring #needy