George Carlin Quotes

When I was 12, all I wanted was to be good at school, and to do something admirable, something you can't take away from me because I'm not popular or beautiful enough.

I didn't finish my A-levels so there was always a part of me that wanted to be taken seriously.

Those who have not distinguished themselves at school need not on that account be discouraged. the greatest minds do not necessarily ripen the quickest.

There is a difference between people who are educated and people who are smart.

I would regret it if I'd failed at school and university, because if I had, I would have lacked the levels of education necessary to making a serious contribution to building South Africa.

I don't really feel that I deserve all my applause.

I have an education, I went to college, you know?

You're constantly trying to prove yourself, even after you've made it.

I'm not terribly intelligent - I have no university degree, you know.

Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.

I look at the kids coming out of Yale. They are so intelligent with their careers. I wish I had that.

All my life, I just felt that I should have finished my education.

My deepest challenge has been an internal one. It's allowing success to take over by focusing on how many Twitter followers I have or what people are saying about me online, or just feeling like no matter how much success I get, it's not enough.

Me not finishing school - in my head, I still have this insecurity when I'm talking to someone educated.

As successful as it may appear I am, I don't really feel that. It's like, you know you've achieved some level of success, and you know what you've done, and yet you still feel you have more to do and more to prove.

If I didn't finish high school, I would wonder about that part of my life.

You sort of feel when you are given an award, you feel like, well then you have got to do something to deserve having been given the award. It worked differently with me cause I didn't feel that I had done enough.

I have a lot of confidence through my accomplishments. I'm always trying to prove I'm not the worthless child they say I was.

I always felt I had to prove my intelligence.

Teacher? I never dreamed I could rise so high in the world

I think I'm smart, and I know I was a good mom. But there wasn't a lot I could point to and say, that's why I'm special.

The fact that I didn't finish school left me with a lifelong need to prove that I'm smart, prove it to myself, maybe to the world. I [also] needed to be - not the center of attention - but I needed to be able to attract attention when I wanted it, through my stunts and my fooling around physically with faces or postures or voices I would do. Those things are important elements in the drive behind all of this [my career].

My therapist told me I need to learn to love myself. It sounds easy enough, but really, how do you just wake up one day and learn that? It feels like something you should just do involuntarily, like swallowing or blinking, but now I have to work on it. It feels so forced. I mean, I know I went to a good school, and people tell me I'm smart and creative, but I don't KNOW that. I don't know how to make myself feel that.

I have a very vibrant imposter syndrome that goes on throughout most of my life, but nothing more than when someone has to put a hat on me or some kind of sash and go, 'We're giving you this certificate.'

It's a good thing to feel like you have to prove something