Amy Childs Quotes

I went to a private school, and I struggled academically. It was really disheartening to always be considered bad at that.

I was perhaps the worst student you have ever seen. You know, I thought I was stupid, all my classmates thought I was stupid, so there was general agreement.

I failed first grade, which is my biggest problem. You always feel like a failure, like you're stupid.

When I was in grade school, my teachers decided I was just about the dumbest thing to come through the door in a long time. Whatever the lesson, whatever the subject, I would sit and listen to them with a lost, glassy-eyed expression on my face.

I was a completely below-average high school student. I never went to college.

I wasn't academically successful. And maybe I've spent a lot of my career trying to make up for that.

I was the kid who never won the races... I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.

I was a very, very slow learner. I was good at nothing.

I never felt I was quite the ticket academically. I always felt I had to put in an enormous amount of effort not to be disappointing. So I worked really hard, but at the time it suited me, because I didn't do very much else.

I had no confidence at school. I was not a good student and I really thought I was pretty stupid. Just dumb.

I have an enormous sense of having failed in life.

I'm unqualified for anything else. I'm barely qualified for this.

It's a terrifying thing to be perhaps 16 or 17 and feel like you are a failure and a has-been.

I longed to be bright and most certainly never was. I was rather hopeless, I suspect.

To this day I do not believe I'm great at anything.

I'm usually convinced that what I'm working on is a total disaster.

Here I am, a not over-good business man, a second-rate engineer. I can make poor mechanical drawings. I play the piano after a fashion. In fact, I am one of those proverbial Jack-of-all-trades who are usually failures. Why I am not, I can't tell you.

I had this inferiority complex as a child, as I was not good at speaking. I was also not good in studies or sports and would often flunk in four-five subjects.

I didn't do very well at school, and I suppose I've always had this sense, you know that, of being average, so I've been a bit low on self-confidence in my ability.

I'm a lot of things, but none of them are great.

My biggest fear is that I'm not good enough. I have this voice in my head that I've been battling for years that says, 'You're not really talented enough. You don't really deserve this.'

I failed eighth grade twice, and then they moved me up to ninth grade. Then I failed that and dropped out. My teacher would hand me a test, and I'd grade it myself with an F, then put my head down on the desk.

What I remember most vividly was the sense of always being a little behind the other kids in class - that sense of I wasn't cut out for class or I wasn't cut out to read.

I did badly in high school. I don't know why, but I failed all my exams. Then I took them again.

When I was growing up, I wasn't particularly great at anything. I was in my own world, and my teachers felt I'd never reach my potential. Even in sports, I'd only play team games because I felt I was not good enough to outshine anyone.