Academic Ability Quotes

My brother was older, very bright. He went to university. I wasn't academically bright - maybe at first, when I was little, but it was lost. I started doing a drama workshop and got really into it, then I did a BTec in performing arts and started to work.

Entrepreneurship can be taught to people with average academic abilities - the proof of that is everywhere you look.

I am not that smart.

I was good at most subjects at school. Looking back, I was a proper boffin! Now, the thing I'm really good at is poker.

My parents both work in publishing, and I was a bright, academic kind of kid, and I read a lot of books, and when you read a lot, I guess the muscle that gets exercised is where you can hear the voices in your head. You can turn words into pictures and into sounds and into colours and smells.

I've been thinking that school, or certainly the traditional English public school model, is like a prison, in that you can't get out and it is hierarchical. As a result they have a lot of bullying. On the other hand if you mix ages and academic ability this is less of a problem.

I'm not a lawyer, thank God. Not that there's anything wrong with it. I've never had the brain power for it. I was not the kind of guy who could learn case law.

My parents moved around Stockton and Lodi. I had a lot of anxiety about jumping into another classroom. They were always putting me in special ed. But I was smart; I wasn't like these kids in the special-ed classes. But it would make me feel a little bit stupid.

The study of economics does not seem to require any specialized gifts of an unusually high order.

I'm not really book-smart.

And certainly having gone to Oxford, and seen some of the other students there, I wouldn't say the ones at my school were less capable. They could've been there.

I was always regarded as being better than ninety percent of the kids in school, but I was also something of a loner.

I was raised with the idea that if you're not smart enough to do science you can do politics.

I was always good at math, but I was good at everything. It sounds obnoxious, but I was just smart. In school, it's kind of obvious when you're learning things faster than other kids.

Mostly, I think of myself as having great common sense. I've always been proud of that. Was I a terrific student? Absolutely not. But put me in a roomful of people, and I don't think I'm ever going to embarrass myself.

Scholastically, I did enough to get by, but I was smarter than I let on.

Good students are good at all things.

Academic studies in general is not something that I'm very good at.

I'd never taken an SAT prep course. They were for weaker students.

Singing is actually my favourite thing to do in the world - so when you don't consider yourself as talented at anything academically, and there is one thing you're good at, I think it's best to follow what you're good at.

My character, Taylor McKessie, is a little bit brighter in the math and science department than I am... okay, a lot.

I majored in economics in college. Certain things were just out, like chemistry or biology, or science or math, that was just out of the question. That's just an aptitude impossibility, I couldn't have done it.

Let's be honest, some people are better suited to exams than others in the same way that some of us are more sporty or arty.

The looks, the stares, the giggles . . . I wanted to show everybody that I could do better and also that I could read.

There's a common problem: if a kid is not good at exams, they often think they are not skilled. Yet many of them do have the skills employers are looking for - but often we don't show them that, or teach them how to develop them, or celebrate them.