#grade

In the fourth grade, my history teacher gave us a project: Why was the auto industry located in Detroit, Michigan? I didn't know I was going to be an economist, but I knew I was going to do something that was involved in answering questions like that one because I thought that was a fascinating question. ↗

— Mark Zandi

#auto #auto industry #because #detroit #economist

I walked to Seward School first through fourth grade. It's just amazing to me now that we'd walk down 10th Avenue on Capitol Hill. ↗

— Stone Gossard

#avenue #capitol #capitol hill #down #first

I started trying to write when I was in second or third grade. ↗

— Margaret Haddix

#i #second #started #third #trying

I had a ninth grade teacher who told me I was much smarter and much better than I was allowing myself to be. ↗

— Scott Hamilton

#allowing #better #grade #had #i

I used to not stutter any. Oh, I did when I was a kid, I stuttered, I had a bad stutter until I was probably between the second and third grade and a guy got rid of it for me. ↗

— Lee Hazlewood

#bad #between #did #got #grade

Told that the passing grade is a B or competence and that we will help you to get there, students do competent work. The lowest passing grade in the real world is competence. Why do schools accept so much less? ↗

— William Glasser

#competence #competent #get #grade #help

Business is a subset of the environment, not the other way around. You can't have a healthy economy, you can't have a healthy anything in a degraded environment. ↗

— Peter Coyote

#around #business #degraded #economy #environment

Not only should we be giving Amtrak the money it needs to continue to provide services; we should be providing security money to upgrade their tracks and improve safety and security measures in the entire rail system. ↗

— Corrine Brown

#continue #entire #giving #improve #measures

I thought about going to NYU film school - that was this ideal to me. But I didn't make any kind of grades in high school. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#any #film #film school #going #grades

Investors should be cautiously positioned as the global economy and markets face major uncertainties. The downgrade will be a further headwind to growth and job creation in the U.S. ↗

— Mohamed El-Erian

#creation #downgrade #economy #face #further