Manfred von Richthofen Quotes

As my mom says, I was a little bit of a slacker in high school. I really was just kind of unmotivated, a little bit lazy, so my grades weren't that good.

I was rather a poor student, too easily distracted - did a lot of gazing out of windows, fine for training to be a writer, but not a great way to achieve in the classroom. The truth is that I was happy to bumble along and do enough to avoid detention, but not much more.

My policy is to do the least amount to get by.

Y'know, the real reason why I was such a failure in the sense of being unable to make any sort of a living was because I was really not motivated. I had no motivation.

Lumpy and lazy; I aspired to lethargy. In the second year of university, I missed half my classes just because I couldn't pull myself out of bed.

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

In school, I was an underachiever.

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 hated school, didn't like the discipline.

I wasn't the best student. I wasn't stupid, but I wasn't paying a lot of attention.

I wasn't good at school.

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 was very unmotivated at school.

I was a disinterested student.

I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.

I've seen guys sit the whole day doing nothing, and I hate it when people are unproductive. I don't like a guy who sits on the couch all day.

I was attending the University of Alberta. I was going to be a high school teacher, like my parents. I failed - no, I didn't fail a class, I just barely passed. I really didn't try. It was Canadian history, through the plays of the time. My God, those were boring plays.

I didn't mind being in school. But I was usually uninspired and always late. I did what I had to, but not more.

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.

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 never really good in school.

Most of my teachers didn't like me. I didn't get good grades because I pretty much lived at the public access studio. I tried to be the class clown, so I spent a lot of time in detention.

I was a horrible student.

Much of my work has come from being lazy.

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