Quotes About Guidance

The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.

When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.

Leadership flows from inner character and integrity of ambition, which inspires others to lend themselves to your organization's mission.

Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.

It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.

The rabbi is often the regular preacher in the synagogue, the man whose sermons offer his community more general theological and moral guidance.

My theory is children don't do what you tell them to do, they do what you do. You have to always do the right thing because they follow you.

I have a theory that when you're lost on the path, go back to the beginning and try the maze again.

It was a question of helping a man prepare in the way that suits him best. The theory is if you give a man responsibility for his own actions, then it is up to him to accept that responsibility.

Eating disorders are usually nothing to do with food. Parents need to be with their child to see them through it. All the therapists in the world can't help if the parents aren't present, loving, and proactive.

With almost every book I've written, my secret target audience is the young therapist. In this way, I am staying in my professorial role; I'm writing teaching stories and teaching novels.

Parents still have a big influence on their kids - just ask any therapist. No, really, I think the parent is the most important influence on children: It's how they learn to love and treat other people.

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.

All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

It's interesting that I had such a close relationship with my grandfather. Because your parents always judge you: they say, 'You shouldn't do this, you shouldn't do that.' But with your grandparents you have a feeling that you can say anything or you can do anything, and they will support you. That's why you have this kind of connection.

The most important thing is to talk to people that have jobs that you might like and to see what they say the job involves.

Schools insist that everything is under their purview - what your kids eat, what they believe, what they say on the playground.

The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.

One thing that somebody told me is that leadership is a lonely role - some people can do it, and some people can't.

Principles and rules are intended to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference.

My sister is my little star, and I'm excited for her and proud of her. With her, I'm protective, but also I don't want to be that sister who's really pushy and thinks they know everything and making her feel like she doesn't know what she's doing. I'm trying to be that cool older sister and not the mom, but it's hard.

We have the Fine Guidance Sensors, one of which we will exchange out of three. Another one we changed on the last servicing mission, and on the fourth servicing mission in 2003 or 2004, the third one will be exchanged.