Math Struggle Quotes

I've been a big astrophysics nut since I was 12. I have always had a real soft spot for the bizarreness of quantum mechanics. But I gave up on being a scientist in high school - I'm just not that good at math.

I was definitely one of those girls where my father would sit me at the dinner table and say, 'What's two plus two?' And I'd be like, 'Five!' He would shake his head. Math and science intimidated me.

I'm not good at math.

Other kids could read, other kids could write, other kids could spell, they could do math. I felt like an alien. I felt like an outcast. I felt like, 'What is going to happen to me?'

Math? Forget about it. If I add four plus eight plus six, I have to count on my fingers. I guess I'm hooked up differently.

I studied math, and I was terrible at it.

The first book I ever wrote was in fourth grade and it was called 'Billy's Booger.' It was an autobiographical piece about a kid who was really bad at math.

I wanted to be an astronomer until I discovered I'm terrible at math.

I like to crack the jokes now and again, but it's only because I struggle with math.

I am a great fan of science, but I cannot do a quadratic equation.

I am very bad with numbers.

Photography let me show other people how I saw the world. Math required me to do work that made my head hurt.

I didn't like school at all. I never liked the seven different classes system. I liked having just one, like in elementary school - less disruption. I liked history. I failed math and science and gave those teachers a hard time.

I did poorly in math for a couple of years in middle school; I was just not interested in thinking about it.

In high school, a teacher once suggested that I be a math major in college. I thought, 'Me? You've got to be joking!' I mean, in junior high, I used to come home and cry because I was so afraid of my math homework. Seriously, I was terrified of math.

I like to call myself numerically dyslexic, but officially, I am mathematically thick.

I still have to count on my hands! I'll be in a restaurant doing a tip and I'll be like, 'What's 20% of this?'

I was dyslexic, so math and formulas were not necessarily my strong suit.

At school, I wasn't as interested in mathematics. I did OK, but at the earliest point I could stop doing math, I stopped.

I'm bad at math.

English was great because I could just write my opinion, and that was good enough. I was terrible in Math, even though I had amazing Math teachers. My favorite subject was either English or History. I had a really awesome high school education.

I can become very emotional about math, although I'm not that good at it.

I was never good at math.

I am bad at numbers and math. Always was!