Grades Quotes - Page 5

• You know, I went to Oberlin. At that time, grades were - you elected to have them or not. It was all of that era where grades were out the window. But I did very well in school. I didn't really study the arts; I practiced the arts.

  Julie Taymor

  Art, School, Eras

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• I grew up taking piano lessons and liking Wagner when I was in second grade.

  Tom Verlaine

  Piano, Lessons, Grew Up

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• When somebody turned me on to a Coltrane record around seventh grade, I took up saxophone.

  Tom Verlaine

  Records, Saxophone, Coltrane

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• When I was real young I wanted to play baseball. I really loved playing center field, but that was never anything I was really ever that good at. I played up until I was in ninth grade.

  Ryan Sypek

  Baseball, Real, Play

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• After my stellar first grade academic achievements, I continued to perform well in the city primary schools - except for penmanship, which was not my forte.

  Vernon L. Smith

  School, Cities, Achievement

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• Around 5th and 6th grade I thought Dean Martin was the coolest guy in the world; he was a great singer, had his own television show and acted in movies.

  Peter Gallagher

  Guy, Style, Television

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• I was involved with drama departments since the 5th grade. I played at it. It was an escape.

  Adam Baldwin

  Drama, Department, Involved

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• Grades don't measure anything other than your relevant obedience to a manager.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Education, Teacher, School

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• History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Believe, Ignorance

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.193, Cambridge University Press

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• I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Education, Motivation, Fear

  "Stanley Kubrick at Look Magazine". Book by Phillipe Mather, p. 46, 2013.

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• Everything depends on attitude. We are ambitious or lazy, enthusiastic or dull, loyal or undependable, according to our attitude. We get good grades or poor grades - according to our attitudes. Discouragement is an attitude. Lack of industry is an attitude. Failure to follow instructions is an attitude. attitude

  Sterling W Sill

  Loyalty, Attitude, Failure

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• My mother had been a grade-school teacher, and my father had an eighth-grade education.

  Gordon Bell

  Mother, Teacher, Father

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• The pressure on kids is high to get good grades. In my time, no one cared about it. My father looked at them but he didn't really make much fuss about them.

  Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

  Father, Kids, Pressure

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Your age doesn't define your maturity; your grades don't define your ability; and what people say about you doesn't define who you are.

  Nicky Gumbel

  Maturity, People, Age

  Twitter post from May 06, 2016

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• In 1957, when I was in second grade, black children integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. We watched it on TV. All of us watched it. I don't mean Mama and Daddy and Rocky. I mean all the colored people in America watched it, together, with one set of eyes.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Children, School, Mean

  Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (2011). “Colored People”, p.20, Vintage

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• I grew up in a very small, close-knit, Southern Baptist family, where everything was off-limits. So I couldn't wait to get to college and have some fun. And I did for the first two years. And I regret a lot of it, because my grades were in terrible shape.

  John Grisham

  Fun, Regret, College

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I started out as a Cold Warrior, even my last years in grade school.

  Alexander Haig

  School, Warrior, Years

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• A church is an incubator, a nursery, a grade school. You start where people are and move them to where they need to be.

  Adrian Rogers

  Moving, School, People

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• In a culture of technique, we often confuse authority with power, but the two are not the same. Power works from the outside in, but authority works from the inside out. . . . I am painfully aware of the times in my own teaching when I lose touch with my inner teacher and therefore with my own authority. In those times I try to gain power by barricading myself behind the podium and my status while wielding the threat of grades. . . . Authority comes as I reclaim my identity and integrity, remembering my selfhood and my sense of vocation.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Teacher, Integrity, Teaching

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• I was a bad dater, and up until 8th grade I went to an all boy's school. So, by the time I hit high school I was a bit freaked out by women in general.

  Steve Carell

  School, Boys, Bits

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. August 16, 2005.

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• Blacks can get into medical school with a lower grade ... If that's true, a Jew should be able to play basketball with a lower net.

  Jackie Mason

  Basketball, School, Play

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• I think I'm a better doctor than I am a husband. I give myself a good grade as a doctor, then the next best grade as a father, and the worst grade as a husband.

  Mehmet Oz

  Husband, Father, Thinking

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• I've been to the Hall of Fame many times, in grade school and high school. I had field trips to the Hall of Fame and taking tours of it. I just never thought about that one day I possibly might be in it. I think it'd be great.

  Patrick Ewing

  School, Thinking, One Day

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• II know very, very little about the ukulele, but I actually grew up playing the viola from 4th grade through high school.

  Kris Allen

  School, Ukulele, Littles

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• My dad, as a guy, had to quit school in the ninth grade, fought in the Battle of the Bulge. And spent his life pushing wheel barrels of heavy wet cement. So we've gone from pushing cement to now in one generation pushing legislation. But we always want any president to succeed, to do well; that means America does well and Americans do well.

  John Barrasso

  Dad, School, Mean

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