Levon Helm Quotes

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 a very good student. Procrastinating gives me anxiety, and getting a B really ticked me off. Sure, I didn't always want to do my homework, but I actually really liked school. As nerdy as it sounds, I love learning.

I want to graduate high school, so it's very important to me, and I'll be focusing hard on that as well.

I wrote down the grades I wanted in every class.

I've always been an A or B student. When I get a B, I freak out a little bit!

I only complained in school, as I did not like studying.

You can finish school as soon as you finish the GCSE's.

As you know from school, it's when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared, even if you fail, you've done your best.

I do believe that when your child does poorly on a test, your first step should not necessarily be to attack the teacher or the school's curriculum. It should be to look at the idea that, maybe, the child didn't work hard enough.

Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business.

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

School, I never truly got the knack of. I could never focus on things I didn't want to learn.

I didn't pay as much attention in school as I would have liked to.

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

A final is a final, and is motivation in itself.

School did stress me out, like it does for a lot of young people. I didn't like having to do work that I didn't care about.

I'm passionate about schoolwork because I don't like getting bad grades.

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.

You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.

My concentration was really on getting to university and becoming a doctor. My parents let me know that school marks were important. Achievement was something which came by hard work.

I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have.

You may be in a medical or engineering college, but not all will stand first in class. It depends on who studies the most.

I am a really bad test taker. I can get straight As in school, but I get nervous on test.

I loved tests because it was another form of competing, a healthy competition.

In fall 2007, I stood at the midway point of completing my undergraduate studies at Columbia. I studied every moment that I wasn't sitting in class. I was very focused on maintaining a solid GPA, so I could go on to law school.