Veronica Roth Quotes

I've always thought tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune.

It feels like it's the end of the world if you don't do well on your SATs.

Of course you're nervous going into a final.

By the way, I have had zero press training.

I never considered I might make a career out of writing as I was going to school, so when I did turn my attentions that way, I was very ill prepared, having only what I read as a guide, and no formal training whatsoever. I credit that very ignorance with a great deal of my success.

My husband calls it winging it - the way I just took what the studios gave me, didn't do my homework and avoided roles that would risk my image.

I've been amazed watching people who are not ready with their scripts when they're getting a lot of attention.

When I auditioned for drama college, they asked me to do my Shakespeare. I couldn't do it. They asked me to do my modern, and I couldn't do it. They asked me if I had a song prepared, and I said 'No,' so I sang 'Happy Birthday.' And I did a reasonable improvisation, a reasonable one, nothing special at all. I don't know how I got in, but I did.

When I was starting out, I didn't know what the hell I was doing and my person who was helping me out, I didn't even have an agent, got me five or six big auditions for leads in movies in 1986 that I had no business auditioning for. I think I ran out of three of them before I'd even finished.

One of life's most painful moments comes when we must admit that we didn't do our homework, that we are not prepared.

I was never trained for anything.

I am a really bad test taker. I can get straight As in school, but I get nervous on test.

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Tests that sugar-coat the truth only set up our kids to fail in worse ways down the road.

This is absolutely terrible. I’m quite unprepared for it. David [his older brother] has been trained for this all his life. I’ve never even seen a state paper.

I don't have a game plan. I never did, and it's too late to have one even if I wanted to.

I don't prepare very well. I'm always sort of wrapped up in what I'm supposed to be doing in the moment, and then I suddenly appear someplace, and I'm really not prepared.

I think pressure is that uneasy feeling that you feel when you're unprepared.

It is scary for me to do a film by directly showing up on the sets without any preparation.

When I went in for the 'Orange' audition, I was just doing what my agency told me to do. Truth be told, I wasn't prepared. I didn't even know how to prepare. I couldn't remember my lines.

I think you jump into things without thinking ahead very much because I had never been in an airplane - even in a commercial airliner. I had never flown at all. I just wanted to be commissioned, to be a commissioned officer.

If a student believes that taking too many exams is hard or skipping advanced courses for a lighter load is a better deal, just wait until he or she goes to college and needs to prepare for finals or has to figure out complex work problems in a stressful environment.

From a young age, pupils are put under immense amounts of pressure in high-stakes exams. Often, they're made to feel like their whole future depends on how they perform in these narrowly focussed tests.

It's soo freaking hard studying all night for your exams when you know there is no hope of clearing the dreaded Hindi paper.

How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test?