Patrick Bamford Quotes

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.

My record at the University of California as an undergraduate was mediocre to say the best.

I was one of those kids that could just show up and take the test and do well on it. I didn't study a whole lot.

In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn't been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A's without taking a book home. I didn't go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam.

About Grade 9 and Grade 10, I had a fantastic drama teacher, and it was one of the first subjects I actually felt that I was good at. I wasn't a mathematician. Didn't like science, any of those subjects. English and Drama were the two subjects that I loved and felt that I was good at.

I started out with the intention of studying physics. I was a terrible high school student outside of the fact that I did well in physics, but there's a big difference between being good at physics and being a physicist, so I jettisoned that very quickly.

Schoolwork came easy to me. I learned to play piano effortlessly. I was coasting.

I hated school, but I was a good student. I made straight A's.

Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.

I was not an especially diligent student but nevertheless obtained a reasonable education in physics.

I was a good student in school.

I've never professed to be anything but an average student.

The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.

I went to public school my whole life. It was a performing arts school, so I can't say if it was a typical experience or not, because it's all I know.

If there are activists in Cosas and they do poorly academically, then they would be cited as examples as to why others should not be in Cosas.

In school, I was an underachiever.

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

I went to public school, and I didn't do well in school. And it wasn't until, actually, I got into school at Juilliard - it was the first time in my life that I thought, 'Oh, maybe I'm not stupid,' because I was so inspired and passionate about what I was learning, and it was the first time in my life I had felt that.

I was an average student. Not a dunce. Used to play for the school football team.

I did like history. I was always quite interested and got good grades as well.

At school, I had to work really hard to get a D in maths. And I wasn't slacking off; I actually did work quite hard.

I was a decent student but not a great student.

I wanted to do well academically. But it was equally important to do things in an effortless manner.

I was a very earnest, hard working boy at school, but my parents were distressed because I was always bottom of the class. But I wasn't dilatory, I worked like crazy.

I was a talker back in elementary school. I used to get A's and B's in everything, but I got an F in conduct.