Kay Kay Menon Quotes

I didn't get lessons of any kind I slept through school.

I didn't pay as much attention in school as I would have liked to.

I did hardly any academic work. I learnt a fair amount, though.

In school, I wasn't a very good student - I was very irresponsible and never did the studying but always liked to get the laugh.

I was a terrible student. Still, I managed to get into college, but my daydreaming threatened to sabotage me. I used behavior modification to break the cycle. I started by setting an arbitrary time limit on studying: for every 15 minutes of study, I'd allow myself an hour of daydreaming. I set the alarm.

When I went to college, I was doing well in school, but I didn't have any drive to study.

I had to keep up with my schoolwork so I could keep up my grades. That was tough to balance both being a superstar onstage but being a normal kid trying to get her math homework done.

My family had seen that I was not putting enough heart and soul into studies. I started failing too, but they were sure that I will eventually end up doing a job.

Apart from two periods of intense study, of music between the ages of 12 and 14 and of mathematics between the ages of 14 and 16, I coasted, daydreaming, through most of my school years.

To be perfectly honest with you, I was partying a lot in school. I didn't have any good study habits from high school because I just kind of got by on being a jock.

In school, many of us procrastinate and then successfully cram for tests. We get the grades and degrees we need to get the jobs we want, even if we fail to get a good general education.

I think like a lot of people, you look back on your life and say, 'Gee, why didn't I apply myself?' If I would have spent as much time studying as I did conniving, trying to do as little as possible, I probably would have got the A's.

I can be a lazy slob.

What time he can spare from the adornment of his person he devotes to the neglect of his duties.

I would have to say I was an excellent student. I was the type to always do my homework and study when I needed to. I never really partied or did anything like that.

If I'm not at my study by 10:00, 10:30, forget it, I can't write a word.

I wasn't very good in academics, but I could have been if I could have studied well. I was a smart kid.

Good students are good at all things.

I was always a good student. I wasn't the A-plus student, but I studied really hard, and I probably had a 3.2. I always wished that I had the capacity to get straight A's, but I didn't. I didn't beat myself up about it, but I really studied hard for my grades.

I've always enjoyed real work more than schoolwork. My mother will attest to that - she was always concerned about me academically.

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

In primary school I was terrible. I don't think I was particularly well behaved in high school, but I started to apply myself.

I think I can be pretty focused, but as I say, it was more wanting to be the good student, seeing myself as a good student, and also, my parents had expectations. They wouldn't have cared if I got a B or a C or even a D.

I was a good student, but I was the biggest procrastinator.

I was not a studious kid, and I struggled to find things that would command my attention and engage my ideas and energies.