Ari Lennox Quotes

I was a classic attention deficit disorder kid, always bored and mouthing off at school.

I was terrible at school.

I wasn't the best student. I wasn't stupid, but I wasn't paying a lot of attention.

I didn't only have a perceptual problem, I was also so nervous and so upset. The process just didn't work. I lost enthusiasm for school and I flunked second grade. The teachers said I was lazy.

I wasn't good at school.

I was a horrible student. I really hated school.

Me mum used to always have the radio on - even now she has it on in every room. Me girlfriend sort of blames that reason for me not doing that well at school - constant noise, really.

I was never very good at exams, having a poor memory and finding the examination process rather artificial, and there never seemed to be enough time to follow up things that really interested me.

I was pretty anti-academic, and I wasn't much of a student. I had a really short attention span and did not get a lot out of high school academically. I think college was a little the same way.

I'm not very good in a classroom sort of setting. I never was. I was kind of a clown in high school - got suspended a lot.

I wasn't a good student in high school. I mean, I got through it, but unless it had something to do with music, it didn't really interest me.

I found that I was just hopeless at school. It was just a total bore. First, I passed in art and English, and then just art. Then I passed out.

School, I never truly got the knack of. I could never focus on things I didn't want to learn.

I was not much interested in school, and both at secondary school and at university, I only just scraped through, with as little effort as I judged possible without failing.

I failed eighth grade twice, and then they moved me up to ninth grade. Then I failed that and dropped out. My teacher would hand me a test, and I'd grade it myself with an F, then put my head down on the desk.

I was a terrible student. For me, to take a book home was a trial.

In online learning environments, it is often hard to tell whether a student is struggling. By the time test scores are lagging, it's often too late - the student has already quit.

Schoolwork was always suffering! I hated school!

I struggled academically in high school because it was hard to focus. It was hard to focus on those things that were other than artistic stuff.

I was a class clown, never got good grades.

I wasn't a good kid in school. I wasn't a bad kid. I just didn't focus. My grades weren't good. I mucked around, you know, a phase everyone went through.

I'm not studious at all. I'm really far from that. I have been better at everything else. I find school terribly tiresome and boring.

Of course, it would help if she could stay focused, but she had the attention span of a sick flea.’ (Sunshine)

I used to drum on the table at school. I think a handful of my school reports say that they thought I might have some kind of ADD.

I never read in school. I got really bad grades-D's and F's and C's in some classes, and A's and B's in other classes. In the second week of the 11th grade, I just quit. When I was in school, it was really difficult. Almost everything I learned, I had to learn by listening. My report cards always said that I was not living up to my potential.