#student

I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I couldn't keep time. I only got into McGill, which was a lousy music school, because they were taking American music students. ↗

— Burt Bacharach

#american #american music #band #because #got

I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active. ↗

— Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

#always #been #before #i #interested

I'm a geophysicist and all my earth science books when I was a student, I had to give the wrong answer to get an A. We used to ridicule continental drift. It was something we laughed at. We learned of Marshall Kay's geosynclinal cycle, which is a bunch of crap. ↗

— Robert Ballard

#books #bunch #continental #crap #cycle

I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle. But I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me. ↗

— Ann Bancroft

#had #i #lousy #lucky #me

If I had had me for a student I would have thrown me out of class immediately. ↗

— Lynda Barry

#had #i #immediately #me #out

I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

#always #any #been #cheerful #history

The quickest way to experiencing the peace inside, is to learn to recognize when I am not at peace. ↗

— Jim McDonald

#inner-peace #inspirational #jim-mcdonald #spiritual #student-of-experience

I love God, Jesus Christ, my three children, mother, father, brother, sisters, family in general, my pets, my students, and true friends. ↗

— Ana Monnar

#family-in-general #father #god #jesus-christ #love

There’s truth in only having a bicycle seat. I used to skip class and just hold it out in the hallway. When teachers would ask me what I was doing, I’d hold it up and say, “Sorry I’m late.” 
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— Jarod Kintz

#late #life #sorry #student #tardy

Beethoven said that it's better to hit the wrong note confidently, than hit the right note unconfidently. Never be afraid to be wrong or to embarrass yourself; we are all students in this life, and there is always something more to learn. ↗

— Mike Norton

#beethoven #confidence #correct #fear #incorrect