Academic Strengths Quotes

When I was at school, I was terrible at algebra and arithmetic, but I was always the best at English and literature. And acting, of course.

I attended a high school with more than 4,000 students and met with a guidance counselor only once during my four-year stint. Despite my clear strengths in science and math, my counselor's advice was to pursue a degree in business. A career in engineering was never encouraged nor, in fact, ever mentioned.

I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics, and I was never very good at algebra. I loved science, but I wasn't sure of it.

After an extensive interview he arranged for my weaknesses in foreign languages to be over-looked and so I started a Biology degree at Birmingham in 1967.

I didn't mind studying. Obviously math and the physical science subjects interested me more than some of the more artistic subjects, but I think I was a pretty good student.

My brother and I were both good at science, and we were both good at English literature. Either one of us could have gone either way.

My parents have always been incredibly supportive, driving me back and forth to Stratford and so on. They realised from an early age that I wouldn't go into medicine because I couldn't do biology and chemistry.

I liked school and was a bit of an all-rounder academically, I struggled with music. I can't hold a note when singing and abandoned any notion of a career in music after barely scraping a pass in grade 2 piano.

The subject I was best at in school was biology.

I was a bit of an introvert growing up, and I tended to do better in math and science at school, so I went with it.

I was rather hopeless at school, but the one subject I seemed to be good at was domestic science.

I was a catastrophe at Science and Games, but the good thing about Quaker schools is that they encourage you in those subjects for which you show an aptitude.

My mother passed away when I was 14, so there were certain things I missed in terms of upbringing. Maybe my mother would have said, 'You have to get a real job.' I don't know because I didn't have that experience. My fortes in school were Spanish, sports, reading and theater. That's what they encouraged.

I was very good at history, often scoring 99 out of 100, whereas in mathematics, I usually scored zero.

I'm definitely not a science nerd. That was not my forte at school.

As a student, I was more gifted in history and geography. Things like arithmetic were not my strength.