I had a very high-grade publisher tell me I was incapable of writing a memoir.
I bought an electric scooter in sixth grade. Bankrupted me.
I'm stuck in 7th grade & I just keep getting let back
Forces of Destruction: grades in school, merit system, incentive pay, business plans, quotas.
Things may not go to plan, but the unexpected throws up experiences and opportunities you had never dreamed of. I didn't get into Oxford the first time. I was absolutely heartbroken. Instead of going anywhere else I took a year out and reapplied. I wish I'd had some kind of framework for that year out, instead I worked in a Virgin Megastore. But looking back it taught me a lot, and meant my university experience was different, not worse. In the end, your grades aren't as important as the people you meet, and you can meet them anywhere.
All my friends went to the Madonna concert when I was in, maybe, the 9th grade, and my mother refused to let me go.
Girls are more academically powerful. They make the grades, they run the student activities, they are the valedictorians.
I always liked my teachers, and I was in a lot of after-school projects. I was a Girl Scout until my senior year, when I couldn't be a Girl Scout anymore. I was in clubs like Junior Achievement, and I ran track and field. My grades were good, but then toward 11th grade they were nothing. I always went to summer school.
If you take a look at education, the kids that get good grades are said to humiliate those who don't. And what, then, do we do? Slow them down. We put obstacles in their way. We do not devise public education systems that are designed to deal with their superior learning ability. We retard it so that they don't learn any more, any faster than the lowest common denominator - and that really is the nub of it. The Democrats' equality and sameness is all going to be defined by the lowest common denominator.
You wouldn’t know it by looking, but I had no teeth in first grade.
There are no grades of vanity; there are only grades of ability in concealing it.
God grades on the Cross not on the curve.
When I was in the fourth grade, I became intensely interested in geography and I learned it well.
I had my first apartment when I was 16. I got good grades, so my friends would be able to come over to 'study. ' We'd party, and they'd cheat off me. Everybody won!
Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.
Your age doesn't define your maturity; your grades don't define your ability; and what people say about you doesn't define who you are.
Grades are almost completely relative, in effect ranking students relative to others in their class. Thus extra achievement by one student not only raises his position, but in effect lowers the position of others.
I was a 36C or D, and at 5' 1'', I knew that being a small person with big boobs standing in front of an audience was not going to be easy. It would be really hard to get people to pay attention to me without mocking me. Getting a breast reduction to prepare for my career was no different from people who work to get good grades to get into a good college to get into a good graduate school to get a good job. I went down to a B cup, and it was the best thing in the whole world.
The ninth grade. I went from 5'9 to 6'8.
Niggas on the internet know everything. You could make a freestyle tape in the fourth grade and they'll know about it.