Quotes About Motivation

The message from the Technion when I was a student was: 'You will be so good that when you graduate, everyone will want to hire you.'

There's very little that's comparable to seeing the spark in a student's face when she gets something that she's been struggling with.

Students in school cheat not to get the 'A,' but to avoid the 'C.'

Having students was so inspiring.

Back when I taught middle school and wrote adult mysteries, my students often asked me why I wasn't writing for kids. I never had a good answer for them. It took me a long time to realize they were right.

When any artist performs for students, it automatically means they are getting a young crowd.

I am lucky because I get to work with the smartest, most creative, and most devoted group of students and postdoctoral fellows imaginable.

I was told that I had to give grades to the students, which I wasn't particularly interested in doing.

Sure, one can always get the students to relax and be happy - entertained, but although being laid back and relax can also lead to creativity, mostly it means that nothing much gets done.

And, in the case of schools, or anything else, if you have something that is forcing you to do better than you did the day before, it makes you look forward and it makes you think in a way that's going to make the product better, which is the students and the education.

I know exactly what I will do. I will go and work with the Congress of South African Students.

The importance of 'Dream School' is monumental. Helping to inspire these students to reach their potential is personally gratifying.

You can force students to learn, to a certain extent, but students aren't happy and employers aren't happy.

As a former high school teacher and a student in a class of 60 urchins at St. Brigid's grammar school, I know that education is all about discipline and motivation. Disadvantaged students need extra attention, a stable school environment, and enough teacher creativity to stimulate their imaginations. Those things are not expensive.

Johnny Saint is someone who I studied as a kid.

While I circled around and around in my brown rental skates, I studied a group of skaters spinning in the center. I was fascinated! When my mom picked me up, I began a campaign for skating lessons.

I was probably a B student in high school, but it wasn't until I got to college that I said, 'Oh! This is what it's all about.' And then I became an A student. I studied journalism in college and that's what really kicked it into high gear for me.

I studied my craft at the same place as Nicki Minaj.

I graduated from Kellogg. I studied social enterprise.

I wasn't the greatest at school, so I studied basketball.

The basis of my confidence is that I wasn't a talented player. I was a talented human being. At school, I always had good figures. I was the captain of all my football teams. I studied physical education at the Academy, so I learned to analyse, to observe, and to take decisions.

I did not find my studies particularly enthralling.

Both my parents wanted me to excel academically, like every other parent. They wanted me to pursue my higher studies.

It's important for students to take their studies seriously.