Daniel H. Pink Quotes

I was a completely below-average high school student. I never went to college.

I had a major in business, and I graduated with a business degree, but I was perhaps the worst student to graduate from that program.

Here I am, a not over-good business man, a second-rate engineer. I can make poor mechanical drawings. I play the piano after a fashion. In fact, I am one of those proverbial Jack-of-all-trades who are usually failures. Why I am not, I can't tell you.

I was perhaps the worst student you have ever seen. You know, I thought I was stupid, all my classmates thought I was stupid, so there was general agreement.

I was a horrible student.

My father was a truck driver. That's where it all started, and academically I was a disaster at school. My cousin got his name on the honour board; I, at Melbourne High School, I carved mine on the desk.

I failed chemistry. I almost failed algebra.

I coasted through high school. I was 203rd in a class of 987.

I never thrived in high school.

I was a class clown, never got good grades.

I was giving everything I had to classes, and I was getting a 2.6. I knew that wasn't going to get me into med school.

I was a terrible student.

I never read in school. I got really bad grades-D's and F's and C's in some classes, and A's and B's in other classes. In the second week of the 11th grade, I just quit. When I was in school, it was really difficult. Almost everything I learned, I had to learn by listening. My report cards always said that I was not living up to my potential.

I wasn't the best student. I wasn't stupid, but I wasn't paying a lot of attention.

I was a dummy in school.

In school, I wasn't a very good student - I was very irresponsible and never did the studying but always liked to get the laugh.

I didn't really have a favourite subject at school as I was useless at everything.

I was never really good in school.

I myself scraped seven poor passes at O-level.

I was terrible at school.

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

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

I'm the most successful bad player ever.

I was always behind in class. There was people in my class who was amazing at art, amazing at maths, amazing at English, but I wasn't clever with anything, even though I tried my hardest.

I was not much interested in school, and both at secondary school and at university, I only just scraped through, with as little effort as I judged possible without failing.