Vernon L. Smith Quotes

I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.

I made good grades in school.

Whatever the course, whether the course was boring or interesting to me, whether I was talented in mathematics or not talented in languages, my parents expected A's.

Both my girls have always made great grades in school.

I performed adequately at school, but in comparison to my older brother, who set the record for the highest cumulative average for our high school, my performance was decidedly mediocre.

I was always a very good student.

I had to get good grades and do well in school - my mother was an assistant principal and my father was a teacher - and they took this very seriously.

I feel lucky because I was a nerd, which I talk about in the book, but I had academic success, so through that, because that's what my parents put a great deal of value on, I had a great childhood because I sort of fulfilled the expectations of being good at school.

In those days I was terrible at athletics and never made a team, but quite easily led my class in academics.

I was used to being successful in school, but academics didn't make me happy.

I hated school, but I was a good student. I made straight A's.

I always have to bring back an all-A report card.

Grade school, middle school and high school were relatively easy for me, and with little studying, I was an honor student every semester, graduating 5th in my high school class.

The rule with my mom was that the only way that I could be an actress when I was young was that I continued to go to public school and get straight A's in all my classes.

I was an A student and I liked creative writing.

You cannot help but notice that schools that take music seriously tend to be more academically successful.

I would like my kids to study well.

I kind of always did get good grades.

My mum and dad pushed me to work hard in my earlier years in education.

My mum's always had big aspirations because I'm an academic. I always got good grades at school. GCSEs were just a breeze for me.

Because I did well at the prep school, I got to have more options as some different universities gave me offers.

In school, I was good in academics and extracurricular activities. I even topped the state in French in my Std 12 exams.

I did well in school and was able to excel in those areas where I knew I needed to be good at.

I never had good grades until I dropped out of religion. And then suddenly, my grades went up.

I did all right in school, especially in math.