Joaquin Phoenix Quotes

If kids are studying for a test, they're not going to learn anything. We all know that from our own experience.

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.

Turn up your radio. Watch lots of telly and eat loads of choc. Feel guilty. Stay up all night. Learn everything in six hours that has taken you two years to compile. That's how I did it.

In question-and-answer sessions after a reading or during an interview, I forget the question if I'm giving too long an answer. And at the end, I can't remember any of the questions. The more anxious I am about remembering, the more likely I am to forget.

I'm, like, really bad at remembering names.

I was the guy that would cram for everything, so I guess I was a bit of a slacker. I was a procrastinator. I spent a lot of all-nighters getting ready for tests.

Why is it that I can remember so easily the lyrics to the opening theme song of 'Gilligan's Island?' Why do I remember these trivial things, and I can't remember the names of important collaborators?

I'm not good at planning ahead because it's just too much. I plan, set it up and then don't think about it again until it's almost time. That's just how it goes.

Memory, in my opinion, is a complete noodle. It hangs on the silliest things but forgets the stuff that really matters.

Cramming seeks to stamp things in by intense application immediately before the ordeal. But a thing thus learned can form but few associations.

I've always been forgetful.

How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person?

I had a memory span about as long as the lines in a school play.

Over time, I've paid attention, taken notes and forgotten easily half of everything I've gone through.

It was driving me crazy that I couldn't remember something that I studied the night before. All it did was trigger my anxiety, and all of sudden everything would snowball on me.

I was frustrated I couldn't remember stuff, and I got real upset. It was driving me nuts.

I can remember weird things from way back, but not what I had for breakfast.

It's a weakness of mine to forget what it is I've just been talking about so that when people make witty allusions to it, I stare at them open-mouthed, not knowing what they're talking about.

My memory is quite good, except when I'm off stage.

In English, I never did the reading when it was assigned. If a paper was due on Friday, my attitude was, read half the book on Tuesday, the second half on Wednesday, and write the paper Thursday night. Sometimes, I'd just read the Cliff's Notes and skip the book altogether.

It's just comical how short-term people's memories are.

I like to believe I perform better under pressure and at the last minute.

I think I'm too scatty.

I have a really bad memory, to be honest.

My teammates will tell you I find it hard to remember what happened two weeks earlier, let alone what happened a decade and a half back.