Itzhak Perlman Quotes

Sundays in my teens were spent on homework: from 8 am until at least 8 pm, with stoppages to be fed and watered. I was carrying up to ten subjects simultaneously.

My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the time I was in kindergarten.

The boarding-school experience in Paris was very hard, I didn't put up with it very well. I was sick all the time, or in any case frail, on the edge of a nervous breakdown.

Many think kids have lots of time and few responsibilities. And that's just not true. They are stressed and under pressure.

In the old days, variety turns like me learned how to cope with failure - we all had nights when we 'died' on stage - but today's youngsters simply don't have that experience. For them, it really is instant make or break time - hence, all the tears and, hence, all the potential emotional damage.

My kids are exhausted every day, and I keep them that way. It's gym, ice, homework. They're too tired to get in trouble.

My parents were very supportive of my chess. When I got home after a game of chess, having missed school or something, they always made me feel very welcome; I didn't feel guilty at all about pursuing chess with such fervour. They never, for instance, perceived sports as a rival to academics.

I was in three academic clubs, a huge book worm and the teacher's pet. I was kind of an easy target for bullies.

I was very academically inclined. But my inner life was in such turmoil. I'd go home and my home life was so miserable that it just felt like I was doing everything that I was supposed to do. I did all my chores, made really good grades, and I was excelling at school, but I wasn't happy.

At boarding school there wasn't much time for much of anything except education.

We have a lot of pressures on children very young. We have ambition. We over-schedule our children. We want them to have soccer lessons and violin lessons... I think children need to have at least an hour of fun a day.

Since 'The Overachievers' came out, I've been doing a lot of lectures and talking to kids across the country.

I was home schooled in high school but was definitely the nerd in middle school. I was in three academic clubs, a huge book worm, and the teacher's pet. I was kind of an easy target for bullies.

I put so much pressure on myself to be perfect. Between homework and sports and drama and being social, I slept about four hours a night through high school and college.

I just feel like if I start opening the door to talking about my university experience, then people just kind of... own everything. There was a lot of stuff a couple of years ago saying that I was bullied at Brown and awful things like that, none of which were true.

Golly, I hated high school.

High school sucks! It's hard.

It's official: The biggest back-to-school bullies are anxiety, worry and fear.

I had a really tough time in high school.

Even in normal times, a senior cabinet minister faces a workload that is relentless and crushing.

High school is already an academic and social pressure cooker, and the forces that make it stressful are amplified for queer students.

My father was as involved as he could be. He was busy, but called me every day. He knew what was happening in school, and even came for my tennis matches.

It is hard to enjoy life in a national team.

That's what really bothered me about high school: There was just no time to do anything other than school.

My high school experience was very different than the high school experience on 'Skins.'