Willie Aames Quotes

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

I didn't study; I live.

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.

The best schools tend to have the best teachers, not to mention parents who supervise homework, so there is less need for self-organised learning. But where a child comes from a less supportive home environment, where there are family tensions perhaps, their schoolwork can suffer. They need to be taught to think and study for themselves.

Work Hard, Study, and Keep Out of Politics

I'm the type of person, I have to study to get an A on the test.

I study for myself, my own games and others.

I'm studying at A&M, and that takes so much hard work, so much dedication, and that effort is very tough.

I left Israel to work as a model, to just make money - I didn't care if I was doing an ad for toilet paper or diapers, I just really wanted to allow myself to go to school, to go to university without waitressing, because when I'm in a school environment I just really like to study and have the best grades and learn as much as I can.

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.

I was always a good student, but I didn't read that much until I was 18 and I was working my way through college.

When you home study, you get a better education. I basically got to teach myself. Being naturally able to make my own opinions about the schoolwork I had to deal with, instead of being instructed under the tutelage of the teacher, was really nice academically.

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

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 never studied much at Howard, but at Boston University, I didn't do much else but study.

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

The habits of study in which I have been brought up have done much to support me. I never allow myself to be one moment unoccupied.

I didn't go to school much, so I taught myself what I knew from reading.

I was learning things in school rather than learning how to teach myself, which is what you have to do in life, so I just abandoned it and did ceramics for a year and a half.

Study strategy over the years and achieve the spirit of the warrior. Today is victory over yourself of yesterday; tomorrow is your victory over lesser men.

The Purdue education was fine, but I wasn't ready to learn when I was at Purdue.

There are some aspects of work you need to keep working on and no matter what environment you are in. Continuous learning is very important. It's what I call 'competitive tension', which is about having a competition around.

There are many ways to grow football-wise. You go slow or are pushed to go faster, otherwise you get left behind. For me, there would be trouble in stopping learning.

You cannot get an A if you're afraid of getting an F.

Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.