Quotes About Academic Performance

#1. Nothing wrong with the way your mother looks. First thing in the morning, last thing at night, and every hour in between, she looks just fine.

Anne Bishop

#2. Self-discipline predicted academic performance more robustly than did IQ. Self-discipline also predicted which students would improve their grades over the course of the school year, whereas IQ did not. ... Self-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent.5.2

Charles Duhigg

#3. I was the same way after graduating with a degree in education. I started to teach and I was wondering: do I really know how to teach?

Laura Bush

#4. School feeding not only fills stomachs, but has a proven track record of boosting enrollment, attendance and academic performance. For just pennies a day per child, this program changes lives - and ultimately can impact the futures of poor countries around the world in a profound way.

Drew Barrymore

#5. An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providing alternative opportunities to reward the skills of children who learn differently.

Gavin Newsom

#6. Now, practically even better news than that of short assignments is the idea of shitty first drafts. All good writers write them.

Anne Lamott

#7. On stage, you're not limited at all because you're free in language: language is the source of the imagination. You can travel farther in language than you can in any film.

Sam Shepard

#8. Self-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent.

Charles Duhigg

#9. We all have a lot more to read than we can read and a lot more to do than we can do.

Will Schwalbe

#10. 13.5 Mrs. Wolfe asks whether Mr. Iqbal expects her Susan to undertake compulsory headstands.
13.6 Mr. Iqbal infers that, considering Susan's academic performance and weight problems, a headstand regime might be desirable.

Zadie Smith

#11. A balanced diet and physical activity are vital to academic performance. A healthy diet has a direct link to increased cognitive function and memory skills, decreased absenteeism from school, and improved mood. These advantages can help students stay focused and complete their coursework.

Matt Cartwright

#12. Only that, nothing more - a tiny beam of light to show some hidden aspect of reality, to help decipher and understand it and thus to initiate, if possible, a change in the conscience of some readers.

Isabel Allende

#13. Who the hell cares about what anybody else thinks? Just look into your heart and do whatever the hell makes you happy.

Dr Kelso Scrubs

#14. At the university level, introversion predicts academic performance better than cognitive ability.

Susan Cain

#15. True poetry is truer than science, because it is synthetic, and seizes at once what the combination of all the sciences is able, at most, to attain as a final result.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#16. It's been a horrifying academic secret for decades that the children who walk away with the highest formal honors, the valedictorians and National Merit Scholars, have a horrendous performance record in later life.

John Taylor Gatto