Jonathan Stroud Quotes

My parents were supportive. I didn't have good grades, but they could tell I wasn't lazy.

I realized very early in life what my abilities and limitations were, and foreign languages was definitely one of my limitations. With strenuous effort, I just barely passed my French class at Harvard so I could graduate.

My father was a very good craftsman. He made furniture, he made silverware and he had an incredible gift in terms of how you can make something yourself.

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.

Academic achievement was something I'd always sought as a form of reward. Good grades pleased my parents, good grades pleased my teachers; you got them in order to sew up approval.

I wasn't actually very naturally good at economics. My brain doesn't work very well, in terms of mathematics.

I enjoyed carpentry, and it was very good to me for 12 years.

I liked English and art and did a lot of painting. And for some reason I was good at math, but I wasn't an A student. I really had to work hard to get good grades.

I'm not that good a player, and I'll be the first to admit that. I might be a three or four grand-slam winner; I might be a two grand-slam winner, I don't know.

First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.

Acting is not my forte.

Hands make the world each day.

Some losses are harder to take than others. You can lose and play well. It is when you lose and don't do the things you worked on and don't do what you say you would that is difficult.

I think any system I can do well in.

The guys in the top five, they're good everywhere. Me, I'm just almost one-dimensional.

I wasn't the greatest at school, so I studied basketball.

I finished tech college with just one A-level, which was an E in English, because I spent most of my time drinking and faffing around. Having one A-level is a bit like having a car with one wheel - pretty useless. So I ended up working on building sites.

Academic studies in general is not something that I'm very good at.

I was good in biology, but I did very badly in chemistry, and my parents were horrified by that.

I just feel people can see, when I'm 100 percent, I am running hard. I can do pretty good.

I figure if you're going to go to class, you might as well make an A.

You'd be waiting 30 or 40 years for me to build a table. I have more than two left hands.

I was never good academically. It was mainly my own fault.

It's funny, I hear people say I'm faking all this science stuff. That's the furthest thing from the truth. It's literally what I have to do to play and perform at this level.

I think everybody knows if they played a good or a bad game.