Quotes About Academic Failure

#1. She relived the frantic shopping and packing, the last teary gatherings with friends, the fear of a faceless roommate, the terror of academic failure. She also relived the excitement, because, in hindsight, going to college had been the single most pivotal point in her life.

Barbara Delinsky

#2. Although any help is genuinely welcomed, it is more important to be a supportive, proactive parent than it is to be a supportive parent after academic failure and negative behaviors occur.

Tanya R. Liverman

#3. Computer mistake in grade-giving resulted in academic failure of several brilliant students. After some years the mistake was discovered. Letter was sent to each student inviting him to resume his studies. Each replied he was getting along very well without education.

John Cage

#4. Academic failure contributes to poverty and poor health and undermines workforce productivity in ways that harm the entire society.

Anthony Biglan

#5. I loved the flowers that die, I loved the charm of the sky.

Santosh Kalwar

#6. I'm not a star, I hate that word, and I'm an entertainer. Stars fall, you know, I'm an entertainer. I want to be known as an entertainer.

Bernie Mac

#7. The books. Are unhappy.

Will Bly

#8. Goodbye. Thanks for your help ... I ... I'll miss you. -Rose to Mason

Richelle Mead

#9. What you see is filtered through your beliefs. You rarely see "reality." You see your version of it.

Joe Vitale

#10. The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower.

Audre Lorde

#11. Humans and their governments have effectively neutered the population to the point that they're just skinbags, mouth-breathers and pseudo-intellectuals repeating political, religious or academic rhetoric that they don't even understand!

Brad McKinniss

#12. My father was an insurance man and a small-time gambler. He was a good man, but he had an eye for the racehorses, and I saw how it used to bother my mother. I've never gambled a dime. Never, in all those years in Vegas.

Don Rickles

#13. Knowledge comes through likeness. And so because the soul may know everything, it is never at rest until it comes to the original idea, in which all things are one. And there it comes to rest in God.

Meister Eckhart

#14. Society seems to find it irresistible to characterise the "unworldliness" of the male intellectual and academic in terms of his failure to control the women in his life.

Germaine Greer

#15. The two things that will defeat a lot of young actors are fear of failure and lack of preparation. With acting, I didn't have a problem with either one - but somehow I didn't equate either one of them to the academic world.

Tom Selleck

#16. What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.

Oliver Cromwell