James Dyson Quotes

I was really rubbish at school.

I wasn't good at school.

I sucked in school.

I wasn't a troublemaker. I wasn't impertinent. The teachers liked me. But year after year, the comments on my report cards basically came down to a single point, and it was 100% accurate: I seemed to get nothing whatsoever out of all those long hours spent in the classroom.

I had never passed a single school exam, and clearly never would.

I was a dummy in school.

I was never really good in school.

Many people want to send their children to faith schools because they get good exam results, but they're not foolish enough to believe that it's because of faith that they get good exam results.

I was a horrible student.

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

I never cared what kind of grade I got.

From age 16 on, I found school boring and failed A-level Physics at my first attempt. This was necessary for university entrance, and so I stayed an extra year to repeat it. This time, I did splendidly and was admitted to Sheffield University, my first choice because of their excellent Chemistry Department.

I have this rather amazing report which, roughly speaking, says I was the worst student the biology master had ever taught.

I failed chemistry. I almost failed algebra.

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I didn't collect my GCSEs. I didn't even do most of them.

I was giving everything I had to classes, and I was getting a 2.6. I knew that wasn't going to get me into med school.

I was a terrible student.

I had a major in business, and I graduated with a business degree, but I was perhaps the worst student to graduate from that program.

I was hopeless at high school - I failed everything but Latin.

I was a bad student. I liked archaeology actually, I was interested in maybe becoming an archaeologist but I was such a bad student and had such bad grades that I wasn't going to get into any really good college so I fell back on acting.

I remember that I was never able to get along at school. I was at the foot of the class.

I coasted through high school. I was 203rd in a class of 987.

I got through at Ignatius. I did OK, not great in any of my academic endeavors.

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