Gene Mauch Quotes

A good leader is one who can tell another how to reach his or her potential; a great leader is one who can help another discover this potential for him or herself.

When you don't have someone to model yourself after, you're going to make mistakes.

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It's a picture of somebody trying to figure things out. I'm not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn't interest me.

The first time someone called me a role model, I remember thinking, 'What does that mean?' But I feel aware of it when I'm reading scripts.

Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in a groove works in blinkers.

Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.

The truth is we're all searching. We're all looking for guidance, for mentors, and I'm by no means someone to follow.

I don't know - to be honest, I don't really model myself after anybody.

I just want to be the greatest man that I can be while I'm alive, and in that, you have to find the truth. Find the hard truth about yourself.

Ultimately, I want people to be inspired to go on their own journey of self-discovery.

What I use when I'm acting comes from what I learn about myself.

The goal in my life is to grow and become better than before.

I have a cult-like following because I exemplify what it is to be a human being.

I keep rediscovering myself with every film. It is great to be doing that, it gives great satisfaction.

When thou hast profited so much that thou respectest even thyself, thou mayst let go thy tutor.

I think a lot of people are drawn to seeing people that want to be better. We see it in ourselves.

You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.

Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.

You don't find out who you are unless you work at it.

I've been through so much of my own self-search that I'm not as consumed with who I am as I used to be.

I never thought I'd be a role model but I think to some people I am or have been.

Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.

Winning isn't getting ahead of others. It's getting ahead of yourself.