Schoolwork Quotes

• I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I - if I'm not interested in something, I don't grasp it.

  Richard Branson

  School, Years, Understanding

  "Life at 30,000 feet". Interview with Chris Anderson, www.ted.com. March, 2007.

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• I was called really horrible, profane names very loudly in front of huge crowds of people, and my schoolwork suffered at one point.

  Lady Gaga

  Names, People, Crowds

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• I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure.

  Steven Chu

  Travel, Adventure, Intellectual

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• I usually balance school by doing online classes and regular classes - that has helped me a lot, and I'm able to get my schoolwork done while I'm traveling too.

  Jordyn Wieber

  School, Class, Balance

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• The best schools tend to have the best teachers, not to mention parents who supervise homework, so there is less need for self-organised learning. But where a child comes from a less supportive home environment, where there are family tensions perhaps, their schoolwork can suffer. They need to be taught to think and study for themselves.

  Sugata Mitra

  Teacher, Children, School

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• I read. It's also nice for me to get involved in schoolwork, which is a totally different world than acting. It makes me feel like I am doing things that normal people are doing at my age.

  Monica Keena

  Nice, People, Age

  "Style & Substance: Monica Keena". Interview with Farrah Weinstein, nypost.com. September 17, 2000.

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• If you are a student you should always get a good nights sleep unless you have come to the good part of your book, and then you should stay up all night and let your schoolwork fall by the wayside, a phrase which means 'flunk'.

  Daniel Handler

  Good Night, Book, Fall

  "The Austere Academy". Book by Daniel Handler, 2000.

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• I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100%, because I had never reached true failure.

  Trent Reznor

  Trying, I Realized

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• Geometry was the first exciting course I remember.

  Steven Chu

  Firsts, Remember, Exciting

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• I realized when I was 23 that I had never really tried anything.

  Trent Reznor

  I Realized

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• The minute you get away from fundamentals – whether its proper technique, work ethic or mental preparation – the bottom can fall out of your game, your schoolwork, your job, whatever you’re doing.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Jobs, Fall

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• I’m very busy with schoolwork, of course." "How can she be?" said Ron in horror. "We’re on vacation!

  J. K. Rowling

  Vacation, Horror, Busy

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• Career success is using your daily work, schoolwork, work in the world, work at home, as a way of advancing your mental state.

  Frederick Lenz

  Success, Home, Buddhism

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• I've thought about writing, but it hasn't happened yet. It's like schoolwork - you start doing your revisions two nights before you're compelled to turn it in.

  Matthew William Goode

  Writing, Night, Two

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think I was, like, 23 or something [on The Breakfast Club]. I was the oldest of the five. Emilio [Estevez] and Ally [Sheedy] were a year younger. The only real difference was that Molly [ Ringwald] and Michael [Hall] still had to go to school. They could shoot, like, a half day. So a lot of my close coverage was done with Molly's stand-in, so Molly could do her schoolwork.

  Judd Nelson

  Real, School, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think there came a time - probably when I was about 13 - when I started to struggle with an increasing volume of schoolwork and the demands from my golfing schedule and aspirations. I'm not sure if the decision to leave school was very clear in my mind then but I did know that in the juggling between the two, my energies were most definitely in the golfing direction.

  Rory McIlroy

  Struggle, School, Thinking

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• Schoolwork came kind of natural to me, but when I brought home a grade that wasn't up to par, my parents let me know it.

  Chris Bosh

  Home, Parent, Kind

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• Nine Inch Nails was an experiment with me in discipline. I realized when I was 23 that I had never really tried anything. Schoolwork came easy to me. I learned to play piano effortlessly. I was coasting. I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100 percent, because I had never reached true failure.

  Trent Reznor

  Play, Piano, Discipline

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• I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure. The tedium was relieved by a few courses that seem to be qualitatively different. Geometry was the first exciting course I remember. Instead of memorizing facts, we were asked to think in clear, logical steps. Beginning from a few intuitive postulates, far reaching consequences could be derived, and I took immediately to the sport of proving theorems.

  Steven Chu

  Sports, Adventure, Science

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• Women work overtime, do double triple duty, juggle ten balls at once -- children, careers, husbands, schoolwork, housework, church work, and more work -- and when one of the balls drops, we think something is wrong with us.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Husband, Children, Thinking

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• The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.

  Agnes Repplier

  Education, Teaching, Easy

  Agnes Repplier (2015). “Americans and Others”, p.38, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Depression is all about if you loved me you would. As in, if you loved me you would stop doing your schoolwork, stop going out drinking with your friends on a Saturday night, stop accepting starring roles in theater productions, and stop doing everything besides sitting here by my side and passing me Kleenex and aspirin while I lie and creak and cry and drown myself and you in my misery.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Lying, Drinking, Night

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.236, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The business of schools is to design, create, and invent high-quality, intellectually demanding schoolwork that students find engaging.

  Phillip C. Schlechty

  School, Design, Quality

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