Ben Barnes Quotes

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

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

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.

Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.

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

I was an engineering student and spent a lot of time in the library, and no one applauds when you finish your calculations.

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.

It was becoming clear that, from being at the top at Holy Cross, we were at the bottom at St. Peter's. Objectively, this was very good, for it offered us a challenge and an opportunity to grow if we were ready to take it; and we surely were.

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 passed the 11-plus and went up to the senior school, where my two older sisters had already gone. I was in the 'A' stream, but in the third year, they asked me to give up Latin; no one had ever got 7 per cent before.

I was a good but not super serious student until about 10th grade, until I was about 14 or 15. Then I started to realise how competitive the world is. I started to meet kids who were more high-performing.

My parents were typical Asian parents, and they do, like all parents, want their children to be successful. They really encouraged my brother and I to study math and science, and that's what we did as kids.

Duke is in extremely competitive environment. In my high school, I think I got one B my whole four years. I was used to being the smartest kid in every class I was in, and then I went to Duke and suddenly I was the dumbest kid in every class. Everybody there is up to something.

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

I loved school, maybe too much, really. I was summa cum laude in high school. I was driven that way.

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

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.

When I joined the Sunday Times the people I was competing with were all 10 or 15 years younger, they all had double firsts from Oxford or Cambridge, they were all bright as new pins.

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

I had two parents who were doctors, and my mom was valedictorian in multiple classes.

Both my girls have always made great grades in school.