Jonathan LaPaglia Quotes

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

When I went to college, I was doing well in school, but I didn't have any drive to study.

I've always enjoyed real work more than schoolwork. My mother will attest to that - she was always concerned about me academically.

I probably wish I'd worked harder in school. I loved school but it was more a social thing for me. I did well in school but I could have done better.

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.

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 would have to say I was an excellent student. I was the type to always do my homework and study when I needed to. I never really partied or did anything like that.

I wasn't very good in academics, but I could have been if I could have studied well. I was a smart kid.

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

Apart from two periods of intense study, of music between the ages of 12 and 14 and of mathematics between the ages of 14 and 16, I coasted, daydreaming, through most of my school years.

My number one goal was not getting 'A's' - and I proved it. I was a 'C' student. You have to be ready to learn. If you're not interesting in learning, it doesn't work. As I grew older and wanted to learn and desperately wanted inside information, learning was a lot easier.

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 didn't get lessons of any kind I slept through school.

When I happened to get into school, I felt like I could approach it as aggressively as things in the military.

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 probably a B student in high school, but it wasn't until I got to college that I said, 'Oh! This is what it's all about.' And then I became an A student. I studied journalism in college and that's what really kicked it into high gear for me.

I never learned to study in studio school, so I had to teach myself to study.

Korean students are hard working, talented, and they do what they need to do. They succeed in exams. They are highly motivated to succeed in tests.

I'm so thankful for my one year at regular high school in White Plains.

Don't peak in high school.

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.

I was a dummy in school.

I did regret not graduating high school, but I made a point of going back and getting my GED later. It was important for my kids.

True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.

I wasn't a great student; I was lazy. But when I was in sociology class, I listened.