Andre Braugher Quotes

My parents are wonderful, practical, sensible people, and the expectation was that I would study something academic.

At Princeton I gained a great deal of pleasure from success in my classes. knowing that I could accomplish those things, and I realized that my success was directly proportionate to the work I put in.

I went to a very academically competitive high school. So I was always quite studious and quiet, just to keep up with the other geniuses who were in my school.

I was quite nerdy at school. I skipped a year and won a scholarship in chemistry.

I'm a child of academics.

I had been an academic all my life. As academics, you tend to believe the smartest people are in academia.

I was a very studious student and usually got A's. I did not like school, because I wasn't popular - I was a nerd.

I feel lucky because I was a nerd, which I talk about in the book, but I had academic success, so through that, because that's what my parents put a great deal of value on, I had a great childhood because I sort of fulfilled the expectations of being good at school.

I have never gotten a B in my life. I would honestly be mortified if I got a B. I'm so academically driven.

The most important thing I learned at the University of Florida is that a Ph.D. and writing papers is very important in the United States.

It wasn't just OK to achieve in my family - it was expected.

I guess you could say I was kind of a nerd in high school, so I was in the upper division math courses - I embrace my inner nerd.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

I have always believed that 98% of a student's progress is due to his own efforts, and 2% to his teacher.

I was a good student when I was a kid, and I did everything I was supposed to do, and I got A's.

The rule with my mom was that the only way that I could be an actress when I was young was that I continued to go to public school and get straight A's in all my classes.

If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented The New York Review of Books.

I got into medical school at the University of California in San Francisco and did well. A lot of smart kids in medical school, and believe me, I wasn't not nearly the smartest one, but I was the most focused and the happiest kid in medical school. In 1979, I graduated as the valedictorian and was honored with the Gold Cane Award.

I hated high school and got to college and realized they didn't care if I showed up because I'd already paid. So I decided, 'I'm going to turn this around.' And I did: I got straight A's and was named 'outstanding senior.'

I was a D student in high school and on the dean's list in college.

I stood as well as any in my class, but the test of scholarship at that day was contemptible

If I came home with a grade of A, my father would say, 'There must have been a lot of dummies in that class.'

Is there any more encouraging sign than to see an Indian, who has never been to a university, like our friend Mr. Asutosh Dey here, for example, carrying out original work and finding it recognized by the foremost societies of the world?

My brother has a Ph.D. in biochemistry, which I find so totally impressive.

I was raised by a single mother, and she felt the Japanese education system, albeit wonderful, keeps you in a certain range. You have to be better than this level but below this level.