Quotes About Academic Achievements

#1. After my stellar first grade academic achievements, I continued to perform well in the city primary schools - except for penmanship, which was not my forte.

Vernon L. Smith

#2. Maybe I was accepted to Harvard only because of my tennis skills, since I definitively had no great academic achievements. I was 17 and only thought about surfing and playing tennis. I had almost never left Rio de Janeiro and had never been to the United States.

Jorge Paulo Lemann

#3. Luck favors the prepared mind.

Richard Hamming

#4. The '90s were extremely diverse, almost like a laboratory of the new century. There was much experimenting around, in politics, economics, gender and family structures, and also in fashion. There was a cloud of possibilities which kept us all dizzy.

Jil Sander

#5. What'll Geoffrey do when you pull off your First, my child?" demanded Miss Haydock.
"Well, Eve
it will be awkward if I do that. Poor lamb! I shall have to make him believe I only did it by looking fragile and pathetic at the viva.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#6. Learn to say No - and to be rude about it when necessary. Otherwise you will not have time to carry out your duty, or to do your own work, and certainly no time for love and happiness. The termites will nibble away your life and leave none of it for you.

Robert A. Heinlein

#7. Dependence is misery. Independence is happiness.

Swami Vivekananda

#8. Inherent in every intention and desire are the mechanics for its fulfillment.

Deepak Chopra

#9. At such times one sees everything and remembers it all. I know from personal experience. I wish I did not.

Stephen King

#10. In the middle of adversity there is great opportunity.

Albert Einstein

#11. The tea party movement and its passion arose in response to trillion dollar deficits as far as the eye can see and out of a sense that Washington is in need of dire fiscal reform.

Ari Fleischer

#12. Take the straight path, even if it is long: marry no widow, even if she is a houri.

Idries Shah