Olivia DeJonge Quotes

I tell kids to be as passionate about your education as you are about anything else in life.

I think it's imperative to keep your focus on why you're in school. You're in school to get an education.

I have a chart for success at school because it gave me a great deal of pleasure. It opened my mind to the world. I learned to read.

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.

My number one goal was not getting 'A's' - and I proved it. I was a 'C' student. You have to be ready to learn. If you're not interesting in learning, it doesn't work. As I grew older and wanted to learn and desperately wanted inside information, learning was a lot easier.

I need a teacher quite as much as Helen. I know the education of this child will be the distinguishing event of my life, if I have the brains and perseverance to accomplish it.

I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get into the habit of doing something that you don't want to do.

I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework.

I always went to school, and when I was working, I had tutoring every day. I still had a childhood.

The greatest object in educating is to give a right habit of study.

My parents really pushed me to excel in school. Education was always important to them, so it was important to me.

It's been a while since I've studied: since high school. It's a lot of work, a lot of work.

In Holy Cross, I came to like school, to like studying in a way I had never done before.

School was very important to me, and music was what kept me coming back.

I love school, and I love learning, and school really does inspire me for a lot of my writing - just being in public school with people and watching things happen.

Education is a cause very close to me. What matters is encouraging my fans to focus on their education, because only an educated generation can ensure a better future. Even when I was on tour, I did my homework and studied.

My mind was never into school, and education did not matter to me.

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.

School's always been very important to me.

We've read scripts, and I think right now we are just focusing in on school.

I don't remember one thing I learned in school.

I can get motivated seeing a kid at my son's school overcome a learning disability.

You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.

I enjoyed the whole process of learning and was always happy when autumn came and school or college started up again.

I'm always studying and I've been doing it for a long time now.