Grades Quotes - Page 35

• Mid-grade readers don't have short attention spans, they just have low boredom tolerance.

  Judith Viorst

  Boredom, Tolerance, Attention

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• As leaders, we're giving out grades in every encounter we have with people. We can choose to give out grades as an expectation to live up to, and then we can reassess them according to performance. Or we can offer grades as a possibility to live into. The second approach is much more powerful.

  Benjamin Zander

  Powerful, People, Giving

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• I'm attracted to good writing. When I read the page and I know what we're after and where we're headed, and I'm fortunate enough to respect that idea and am able to pitch myself toward that, that feels like the culmination of everything that I've spent my life trying to do, since I played that tree in that play in third grade.

  Dallas Roberts

  Writing, Ideas, Play

  Source: collider.com

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• When I was a kid I was not a good student. I went to the University of Colarado, my grades were poor. I was asked to leave after a year. What I really wanted to do was to be an artist.

  Robert Redford

  Kids, Artist, Years

  "Robert Redford: We Have to Act on Climate Change Without Washington". Interview with Vivienne Walt, time.com. December 6, 2015.

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• As Donald Trump continues to dominate the 2016 field, the Republican establishment's low-grade anxiety is becoming an all-out panic

  Dalia Mogahed

  Anxiety, Panic, Fields

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• After my parents got divorced, I had to go right into public school in the fourth grade. The Steiner school had never really taught me how to read, so it was a rude awakening. I was playing catch-up the whole time.

  Justin Theroux

  School, Rude, Parent

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've been acting since I was young because I wanted to, not because my parents wanted me to. My dad is a principal and mom is a middle school counselor, so acting was like, "Eh, whatever. As long as you get good grades." It's really fun, and nothing more.

  Shailene Woodley

  Mom, Fun, Dad

  Source: collider.com

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• I kicked a boy in the shins in second grade for making fun of my father.

  Stephanie McMahon

  Fun, Father, Boys

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• I don't think I'd be exaggerating to say that the essence of who I am today is a result of the weight training. It's made me and given me the life that I have. And it goes way back to the eighth grade getting cut, your friends telling you that you can't do it, and you telling yourself that you can.

  Jake Steinfeld

  Cutting, Thinking, Who I Am

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• I got to ninth grade and there was wrestling, and I went, 'Wait a minute, this is fun.' Basically, it was a chance for a small kid like me to get a chance to wail on another small kid. I went, 'I love this.' The discipline of it was great. Plus, I really started to be good at it.

  Robin Williams

  Fun, Kids, Wrestling

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• I wasn't a great student. Just give me a school with no grades, and I'll be happy.

  Alison Elliott

  School, Giving, Students

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• I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn't cool.

  Bill Gates

  School, Tests, Sixth Grade

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• I remember having a grade-school teacher I thought was a hard-ass. When you're that age, you think the guy is Himmler. Then you visit him eight years later and he's wearing polyester pants, he's four foot eight, you think he's gay, and you're like, 'Are you the guy I was afraid of?

  Jon Stewart

  Teacher, School, Gay

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• Marriage and fatherhood heighten the disillusion that we all think we are born handy. We confidently believe that we can fix things around the house, as if it's part of the collective brain that was further enhanced by eighth-grade shop class.

  Bob Newhart

  Believe, Thinking, Class

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• You might be a redneck if you missed 5th grade graduation because you had jury duty.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Redneck, Might, Duty

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• I was a 36C or D, and at 5' 1'', I knew that being a small person with big boobs standing in front of an audience was not going to be easy. It would be really hard to get people to pay attention to me without mocking me. Getting a breast reduction to prepare for my career was no different from people who work to get good grades to get into a good college to get into a good graduate school to get a good job. I went down to a B cup, and it was the best thing in the whole world.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Jobs, School, College

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I played Winnie the Pooh in first grade. I was an early adopter of standing in front of people and looking like an idiot.

  Jon Hamm

  People, Firsts, Idiot

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I also really like to read good books and I don't have enough time to do it. So it's really hard for me to imagine willingly submitting myself to a trilogy of books that I've been told are at the fourth grade reading level which isn't a very nice thing to say but.

  Lena Dunham

  Nice, Reading, Book

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Niggas on the internet know everything. You could make a freestyle tape in the fourth grade and they'll know about it.

  Cormega

  Tape, Internet, Fourth Grade

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• I just always loved mythology, ever since I was a kid. Greek mythology was something I remember learning about in fourth grade, and Egypt, too, and something about both those things just clicked with me. I just thought they both were so beautiful and interesting to learn about.

  Brie Larson

  Beautiful, Kids, Egypt

  Source: dailydead.com

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• I was always a slow reader, from the very beginning. I remember in first grade our teacher divided us into groups, and I was definitely in the slow group. She didn't call it that, but everybody in the class knew. But I still loved reading. Being a slow reader affected my grades in school, but it didn't affect my love for reading. I still loved going to the library, and I still loved reading books.

  Gene Luen Yang

  Teacher, Reading, Book

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• I have ALWAYS wanted to write - I was the seven-year old entering local library poetry contests, and I recently found my eighth-grade yearbook when we moved, and I had listed "WRITER" as my future occupation. It's always been something I've been hungry to do, but I think the more practical side of me (encouraged by the more practical sides of my parents of course) shied away from pursuing a career in creative writing, in favor of something a little "safer" like law.

  Lee Kelly

  Writing, Yearbook, Thinking

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• One of my first role models was Eugene Lang, a wealthy businessman who went back to his elementary school in East Harlem and addressed the sixth-grade class. He looked out at that sea of faces and said, "If any of you wants to go to college, I will pay for it." When I read that, I burst into tears. It was so generous and so basic. Not fluffy. I can't understand why we scrimp on education and shortchange our kids. Why would the citizenry do that to the people who are going to inherit its republic?

  Bette Midler

  Kids, School, College

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• [The White House staff] start bringing in their kids, who you think should be babies and now are in second grade or something, and you've watched them grow up. So I think what ends up happening is you end up maintaining those networks and those contacts, but the concentrated interactions and experience that you have here, I don't think, I don't expect you can duplicate anyplace else.

  Barack Obama

  Baby, Growing Up, Kids

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I asked all through third, fourth and fifth grade, when they were asking kids to be in the band, to be in the school band. But they wouldn't let me do it.

  Jon Gordon

  School, Kids, Band

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