Richard J. Roberts Quotes

Finding out whether I had made the grades for my first choice university course or whether I needed to rethink my future was terrifying.

I was a dummy in school.

I myself scraped seven poor passes at O-level.

Somehow I got a place at Bristol University. I'm still waiting for the phone call to say that they made a mistake and got the wrong person.

I started out with the intention of studying physics. I was a terrible high school student outside of the fact that I did well in physics, but there's a big difference between being good at physics and being a physicist, so I jettisoned that very quickly.

I hated school, but I was a good student. I made straight A's.

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

I didn't know exactly what I wanted to do in school, but I definitely didn't have adequate time to reach my full potential as a student.

I was always a good student. I wasn't the A-plus student, but I studied really hard, and I probably had a 3.2. I always wished that I had the capacity to get straight A's, but I didn't. I didn't beat myself up about it, but I really studied hard for my grades.

However, I wasn't very good at the sciences, or didn't have a lot of help in the sciences or something but certainly didn't set science for my A level. And when I came to take my A levels I didn't get a good enough result to go to University.

In order to be Miss Anybody you had to have excellent grades, and I had terrible grades because of my dyslexia.

There are those who contend that it does not benefit African-Americans to get them into the University of Texas where they do not do well, as opposed to having them go to a less-advanced school, a slower-track school where they do well.

I graduated college with a 3.5 GPA, when I came into college barely able to get in.

I was a good student. I started college at 16 years old and did okay.

Drama at Bristol was an academic course: you were judged on your A-levels, and there were no auditions. I did a BA General degree.

I was good in biology, but I did very badly in chemistry, and my parents were horrified by that.

The fact is I never was too bright in school. I just barely graduated. I had a D- average. I ain't ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much do principals make a month?

Our eldest boy, Bob, has been away from us nearly a year at school, and will enter Harvard University this month. He promises verywell, considering we never controlled him much.

I remember that I was never able to get along at school. I was at the foot of the class.

I was a good student and stuff like that.

Because I did well at the prep school, I got to have more options as some different universities gave me offers.

I wanted to do animation, so for lack of available career counselling, took up Bachelor's in Computer Science, but managed to get only C grades.

I'm very proud to tell you guys I have been accepted into Stanford University, one of the main institutions of learning and research in the world.

I was always good at gym! Gym classes were good, but school really wasn't my thing, but I did it, got through it. It's definitely important.

I know I haven't been the greatest student, but I do intend to get my degree. Otherwise, my mother will kill me.