Edward Brooke Quotes

I would have to say I was an excellent student. I was the type to always do my homework and study when I needed to. I never really partied or did anything like that.

Seek to establish an environment conducive to study in the home.

I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework.

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

The Purdue education was fine, but I wasn't ready to learn when I was at Purdue.

For an artiste like me, it was very difficult to focus on studies with a beautiful campus around me.

I loved the college experience of studying.

Apart from two periods of intense study, of music between the ages of 12 and 14 and of mathematics between the ages of 14 and 16, I coasted, daydreaming, through most of my school years.

I never read in bed, only in my study.

To be perfectly honest with you, I was partying a lot in school. I didn't have any good study habits from high school because I just kind of got by on being a jock.

When I went away to college, I marveled at the wealth of bookstores around Harvard Square.

I never learned to study in studio school, so I had to teach myself to study.

I think like a lot of people, you look back on your life and say, 'Gee, why didn't I apply myself?' If I would have spent as much time studying as I did conniving, trying to do as little as possible, I probably would have got the A's.

Luckily, I was blessed to go to Stanford and a school that was primarily focused on academics, so it was a blessing.

I went to the University of Washington in Seattle. This was a very good place to study, and I learned a lot. But it wasn't the right place for my Ph.D.

I was a terrible student. Still, I managed to get into college, but my daydreaming threatened to sabotage me. I used behavior modification to break the cycle. I started by setting an arbitrary time limit on studying: for every 15 minutes of study, I'd allow myself an hour of daydreaming. I set the alarm.

If I'm not at my study by 10:00, 10:30, forget it, I can't write a word.

I wasn't very good in academics, but I could have been if I could have studied well. I was a smart kid.

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.

I was not a good student. I did not spend much time at college; I was too busy enjoying myself.

It is a lot of work when you have to go to school and then try to improve your game at the same time.

Oxford is wonderful. I'm having a great time. We do go out, but I still try to spend most of my time studying in the library.

I'm the type of person, I have to study to get an A on the test.

I was very focused on school. No social life whatsoever.

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