David Ulevitch Quotes

My parents were supportive. I didn't have good grades, but they could tell I wasn't lazy.

In primary school I was terrible. I don't think I was particularly well behaved in high school, but I started to apply myself.

My mum and dad pushed me to work hard in my earlier years in education.

I never felt I was quite the ticket academically. I always felt I had to put in an enormous amount of effort not to be disappointing. So I worked really hard, but at the time it suited me, because I didn't do very much else.

Korean students are hard working, talented, and they do what they need to do. They succeed in exams. They are highly motivated to succeed in tests.

I was a very good student. Procrastinating gives me anxiety, and getting a B really ticked me off. Sure, I didn't always want to do my homework, but I actually really liked school. As nerdy as it sounds, I love learning.

Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business.

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 liked English and art and did a lot of painting. And for some reason I was good at math, but I wasn't an A student. I really had to work hard to get good grades.

The best schools tend to have the best teachers, not to mention parents who supervise homework, so there is less need for self-organised learning. But where a child comes from a less supportive home environment, where there are family tensions perhaps, their schoolwork can suffer. They need to be taught to think and study for themselves.

I'm passionate about schoolwork because I don't like getting bad grades.

To be honest, I was not very good in studies; I was an average student. I used to work hard, whether it was for wrestling or studies, as I considered myself not that talented. I used to mug up everything during exams.

I probably wish I'd worked harder in school. I loved school but it was more a social thing for me. I did well in school but I could have done better.

Self-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent.

I didn't get lessons of any kind I slept through school.

I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it.

I never cut class. I loved getting A's, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.

I would not recommend a teen getting into modeling if they're not solid when it comes to their grades and school. That comes first. My mother always told me that came first.

My concentration was really on getting to university and becoming a doctor. My parents let me know that school marks were important. Achievement was something which came by hard work.

I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have.

I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get into the habit of doing something that you don't want to do.

Competition among schools is always a great motivator.

I wasn't a great student; I was lazy. But when I was in sociology class, I listened.

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

I didn't say I was that smart, I said I went to class and I enjoyed what I was doing.