Grades Quotes - Page 26

• I grew up singing and dancing, so people have been calling me gay since fifth grade. I've heard everything you could possibly hear about it. But I do love gay people, so I'm not going to act like I was insulted or angry about it.

  Matthew Morrison

  Gay, People, Dancing

  Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. December 18, 2009.

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• I don't like to give the sob story: growing up in a single-parent home, never knew my father, my mother never worked, and when friends came over I'd hide the welfare cheese. Yo, I failed ninth grade three times, but I don't think it was necessarily 'cause I'm stupid. I didn't go to school. I couldn't deal.

  Eminem

  Mother, Growing Up, Stupid

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The ecological principle of unity in diversity grades into a richly mediated social principle; hence my use of the term social ecology.

  Murray Bookchin

  Diversity, Unity, Principles

  Janet Biehl, Murray Bookchin (1999). “The Murray Bookchin Reader”, p.41, Black Rose Books Ltd.

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• If hot food is they key to maintaining an expedition's stamina, then low grade gut-rot alcohol is the key to sustaining its sense of pleasure.

  Tahir Shah

  Keys, Alcohol, Hot

  Tahir Shah (2013). “House of the Tiger King, Dyslexic edition”, p.186, Lulu.com

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• I've always learned on-the-job, in real time. A problem comes up; I research it, and try to solve it. You can't study to be an entrepreneur; you have to develop those skills day in day out. All entrepreneurial experiences are related, whether you're selling worm poop to Wal-Mart or a grade tracking application to the public elementary school system. In the end, it's all very similar.

  Tom Szaky

  Jobs, Business, Real

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• Our prevailing system of management has destroyed our people. People are born with intrinsic motivation, self-respect, dignity, curiosity to learn, joy in learning. The forces of destruction begin with toddlers - a prize for the best Halloween costume, grades in school, gold stars - and on up through the university. On the job people, teams, and divisions are ranked, reward for the top, punishment for the bottom. Management by Objectives, quotas, incentive pay, business plans, put together separately, division by division, cause further loss, unknown and unknowable.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Stars, Jobs, Motivation

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• God grades on the Cross not on the curve.

  Adrian Rogers

  Curves, Crosses, Praiseworthy

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• See, at a certain point it becomes cool to be boy crazy. That happens in sixth grade, and it gives you so much social status, particularly in an all-girls school, if you can go up and talk to boys.

  Rosalind Wiseman

  Girl, Crazy, School

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• I played on an all-boys team in the 8th grade, but they wouldnt throw me the ball even though I was on their team. One day I stole the ball from my own teammate and I made a basket. From that point on, everyone yelled Give the ball to the girl! I was the only girl on the whole league!

  Lisa Leslie

  Girl, Team, Boys

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• If I memorize enough stuff, I can get a good grade.

  Joseph Barrell

  Educational, Stuff, Enough

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• At UCLA I quickly learned the knack of getting grades, a craven surrender to custom, since grades had little to do with learning.

  Hugh Nibley

  Learning, Ucla, Knack

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• I've always felt that maybe one of the reasons that I did well as a student and made such good grades was because I lacked confidence. Lacked self-confidence, and I never felt that I was prepared to take an examination, and I had to study a little bit extra. So that sort of lack of confidence helped me, I think, to make a good record when I was a student.

  Denton Cooley

  Education, Self Confidence, Science

  "Presidential Medal of Freedom". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. April 11, 1991.

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• No mathematician in the world would bother making these senseless distinctions: 2 1/2 is a "mixed number " while 5/2 is an "improper fraction." They're EQUAL for crying out loud. They are the exact same numbers and have the exact same properties. Who uses such words outside of fourth grade?

  Paul Lockhart

  Math, Numbers, Use

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• When I look at her, it's like when I was in seventh grade and fell in love for the first time, where it's debilitating. That's available 24/7 if I want, which is amazing.

  Dax Shepard

  Dad, Looks, Want

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• When students cheat on exams, it's because our school system values grades more than students value learning.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Education, Wisdom, Cheating

  Twitter post from Apr 14, 2013

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• In third grade, I was taking tap-dance lessons, and about six weeks before the recital I wanted to quit. My mom said, 'No, you're going to stay with it.' Well, I did it, and I was bad, too! But my parents never let their kids walk away from something because it was too hard.

  Rebecca Lobo

  Mom, Kids, Parent

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• Grades were important in our house. I was reading by two. My mom would sit there and read with me, read with me, read with me. It was wonderful.

  Fergie

  Mom, Reading, Two

  "Fergie: The Superstar". Interview with Katie Couric, www.glamour.com. November 1, 2010.

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• It's a template record for the intersection between pop and noise, starting out with 'Sunday Morning' - a real beautiful, almost innocent sunny day song. You have a lot of different types of things on one record. It can be really pretty, or it can be really awful inside, depending on where your head's at at the moment. I got it in ninth grade and I think I've listened to it every month since then.

  Craig Finn

  Beautiful, Song, Morning

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• Our life is like a land journey, too even and easy and dull over long distances across the plains, too hard and painful up the steep grades; but, on the summits of the mountain, you have a magnificent view—and your eyes are full of happy tears—and you want to sing—and wish you had wings! And then—you can’t stay there, but must continue your journey—you begin climbing down the other side, so busy with your footholds that your summit experience is forgotten

  Lloyd C. Douglas

  Distance, Eye, Journey

  Lloyd C. Douglas (2012). “The Robe”, p.179, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• People high in conscientiousness get better grades in high school and college; they commit fewer crimes; and they stay married longer.

  Paul Tough

  School, College, People

  Paul Tough (2012). “How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Among Hispanics, there is little change in popularity from a grade point average of 1 through 2.5. After 2.5, the gradient turns sharply negative. A Hispanic student with a 4.0 grade point average is the least popular of all Hispanic students, and has 3 fewer friends than a typical white student with a 4.0 grade point average.

  Roland G. Fryer, Jr.

  Average, White, Typical

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• It was much later that I realized Dad's secret. He gained respect by giving it. He talked and listened to the fourth-grade kids in Spring Valley who shined shoes the same way he talked and listened to a bishop or a college president. He was seriously interested in who you were and what you had to say.

  Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

  Dad, Spring, Kids

  Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot (2000). “Respect: An Exploration”, p.4, Basic Books

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• I was on the junior team when I was a freshman, that’s how good I was. But I wasn’t on my eighth-grade team, because some coach - some Grammy, some reviewer, some fashion person, some blah blah blah - they’re all the same as that coach.

  Kanye West

  Fashion, Team, Juniors

  "Behind Kanye’s Mask". Interview with Jon Caramanica, www.nytimes.com. June 11, 2013.

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• I was a very sickly kid. While I was in the hospital at age seven, my Dad brought me a stack of comic books to keep me occupied. And I was hooked. When my eighth grade art teacher, Mr. Smedley, told me he thought I had actual art talent, I decided to devote all my efforts in that direction in the hope that I might someday get into the comics biz. I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design.

  Len Wein

  Teacher, Art, Dad

  Interview with Marv Wolfman, www.marvwolfman.com.

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• I almost flunked first grade and also the second, third, forth, and fifth; but my younger brother was in the grade behind me and he was a brain and nobody wanted to have me be in the same grade as him, so they kept passing me. I never learned how to spell, graduated from eighth grade counting on my fingers to do simple addition, and in general was not a resounding academic success.

  Robert Munsch

  Brother, Simple, Brain

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