mentor Quotes

“For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the world of work, of duty, of culture, of progress—to the future.”

″[A]llow my experience to guide you in this. Let go of your worries and focus only on the task at hand.”

“Every great musician, every great artist received a visit from the Angel at least once in his life.”

“No one ever sees the Angel; but he is heard by those who are meant to hear him.”

He often comes when they least expect him, when they are sad and disheartened.”

“Sometimes the Angel leans over their cradle, as happened to Lotte, and that is how there are little prodigies who play the fiddle at six better than men at fifty, which, you must admit, is very wonderful.”

“Sometimes, the Angel comes much later, because the children are naughty and won’t learn their lessons or practise their scales. And sometimes, he does not come at all, because the children have a bad heart or a bad conscience.”

“People who do not know that the Angel has visited those persons say that they have genius.”

“Without a mother or mother-figure to guide her, a daughter also has to piece together a female self-image of her own.”

“And when the Count’s parents succumbed to cholera within hours of each other in 1900, it was the Grand Duke who took the young Count aside and explained that he must be strong for his sister’s sake; that adversity presents itself in many forms; and that if a man does not master his circumstances then he is bound to be mastered by them.”

“But I will gladly advise him -- I’ll hide nothing--”

“My sobs are great gasping hiccups. Miss Moore holds me in her sure arms, which remind me so much of my mother’s right now, I can barely stand it.”

“It is never wise to purposefully do without the benefits of having a mentor in your life. You will waste valuable time in finding and shaping what you need to know. But sometimes you have no choice.”

“Petiron had been her friend, her ally and mentor. She had sung from the heart as he’d taught her: from the heart and the gut. Had he heard her song where he had gone?”