Sean Lock Quotes

I was a completely below-average high school student. I never went to college.

I didn't do well at school, and I don't have lots of academic reference points.

I haven't achieved as much as I should have done in my career.

I was born in a poor family, a lower middle class family. My father was a clerk in the forest department. I was very bad at studies. I was not very good at sports, also.

My first job in construction paid my way through art school. I was building to pay my bills.

I've never felt like my career has been on fire.

I kept giving up runs. It was, for sure, a rough road and a very rocky one. I enjoyed my time there, but not as much as I could have if I would have pitched well.

There was nothing I could - and wanted to - learn in school. It was just a complete waste of my time.

Most of my ambitions were seeded at St. John's. My time there was some of the best time I have spent on Earth thus far.

I stupidly ignored education completely. I found it dull and I preferred to cause chaos and have fun. I regret this massively now.

I got fairly good grades, but I was bad at woodwork. They said I tried hard, but the result was hopeless.

I thought I'd be a professional rugby player or go to university and get some degree in construction.

I was a horrible student.

My father was a truck driver. That's where it all started, and academically I was a disaster at school. My cousin got his name on the honour board; I, at Melbourne High School, I carved mine on the desk.

I was terrible at school.

I dropped out of high school and I couldn't go to college 'cause I wasn't smart enough, so I'd resigned myself to loading trucks and playing punk rock on the weekends.

Let's focus on how we can take someone who is being poorly educated in an American public school and how they are poorly trained for a job, and put in place those opportunities for them to get that education, give their parents choice in education, make it real for them.

Anything that you can become obsessed with, and you do so much that you don't do the things you need to do with family, friends, school, job - that can be an addiction. And texting absolutely can qualify.

At school I was lazy. But I started working when I was 15, washing dishes at a local truck stop restaurant. I was really, really bored with school, and I wanted to get a job as fast as I could. School was just so easy. There was just no challenge to it.

The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.

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.

Ninety percent of my best friends back home are plumbers, electricians, builders, or landscapers. Most of our dads worked in trades.

People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.

Earned a bachelor's at 27, then an M.F.A. that is still completely unused and in mint condition, never taken out of the box.

I tell my kids, 'Don't do well in school, and you, too, can end up at sea.'