Top 1200 School Choice Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

I love St. John's Prep as a school. I like the people there, it's a great school.

I may have had good reasons. I may have had the best of intentions. But intentions aren’t enough, no matter how good they are. Intentions can lead you to a place where you’re able to make a choice. It’s the choice that counts.

It occurred to me that when a person chooses certain behaviors, they have complete, 100% control over their choices. But once the behavior is chosen, therein lies the extent of the effects of that choice. One has 0% control over what happens to them or to their body as a result of that choice. You can choose how you respond to the consequences, but control is relinquished. Choose carefully!

I was constantly involved in music and theatre all through middle school and high school.

One thing about school - I always had this attitude that I was in school to learn, and attempted to do whatever was involved in that process, while school had this attitude that I was there to earn grades, which I couldn't care less about. Unsurprisingly, my grades weren't very good.

Choice is born out of opposites, and the duality of the second chakra is forever challenging us to make choices in a world of opposing sides, of positive and negative energy patterns. Every choice we make contributes a subtle current of our energy to our universe, which is responsive to the influence of human consciousness.

I moved in fourth grade in the middle of the school year, and I was the new kid in school.

To enter upon the marriage union is one of the most deeply important events of life. It cannot be too prayerfully treated. Our happiness, our usefulness, our living for God or for ourselves afterwards, are often most intimately connected with our choice. Therefore, in the most prayerful manner, this choice should be made.

My worst subject in school was school, but it turns out I'm great at starting them.

When I left school I went to Australia for a year and worked in the drama department of a school in Perth.

So the ethic I was taught in school resulted in the path I chose in my life following school.

I was lucky enough to go to college for four years. At what was supposedly a hippie school with no tests and no grades, blah blah blah, I wasn't learning that. I was taking photography classes. That stuff just wasn't talked about. It was like, "Does this picture have the right about of grey in it?" It wasn't even an art school. It was a state-run school.

When I was at school, I auditioned for the school play as Queen Gertrude, and I fell in love with it there and then.

My father left school at 14 and became a fitter. He didn't want to be at school.

I was a smart kid. I went to private school in middle school and got kicked out.

The birth of excellence begins with our awareness that our beliefs are a choice. We usually don't think of it that way, but belief can be a conscious choice. You can choose beliefs that limit you, or you can choose beliefs that support you. The trick is to choose the beliefs that are conducive to success and the results you want and to discard the ones that hold you back.

I played cricket at primary school but hardly at all at high school. I was more of a footballer.

I didn't go to normal children school. I went to sports school when I was 8. So I studied martial arts.

I was editor of my high school literary magazine and a reporter for the school newspaper.

As I very much liked to draw and paint as a child, I entered a special art program in high school, which was very much like being in an art school imbedded in a regular high school curriculum.

In high school, I was kind of a loner because I had moved to a new school.

If I wanted to be a doctor today I'd go to math school not med school.

They changed the floor back to old school. They changed the uniform back to old school. Somebody tell the damn players to start playing like old school.

One summer, when I was on break from architecture school in Tijuana, my aunt gave me a summer job cleaning up and peeling garlic, and I got to see her in her element. She was so passionate and such a good teacher, I decided to quit architecture school and go to culinary school in Los Angeles.

For a number of years at my public elementary school in rural Maine, I was treated like all the other girls in school. That changed in September 2007 when a male classmate, set on a path by his grandfather, followed me into the girls' restroom. The end result was that I had to use the school's staff bathroom - just me, no one else.

Ay me! for aught that I could ever read, Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth. But, either it was different in blood,- Or else it stood upon the choice of friends,- Or, if there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it.

I had a column in high school for our school newspaper. I enjoy writing.

I think this reason why girls don’t do well on multiple choice tests goes all the way back to the Bible, all the way back to Genesis, Adam and Eve. God said, ‘All right, Eve, multiple choice or multiple orgasms, what’s it going to be?’ We all know what was chosen.

One of the things I didn't like about school is that every time they told a story about a rich guy in school, he was an evil guy. Our school system is programming us to think the rich are greedy and evil.

For a little while, my mom was a school teacher. And I went to the school that she taught.

Life is a matter of choice. Everything we manifest in our day to day lives is the direct result of our choices along the way. Each choice automatically creates a consequence. From our choices other people's lives are influenced for better or worse.

I am happy with being a tennis player and the choice I took when I was 12. But clearly, if I wouldn't have been a tennis player, I would have loved to be a soccer player. But again, I am happy with the choice I made.

I feel proud I was part of the old school and still around in the new school.

Doing well in school was a cool thing to do when I was in high school, so I had a blast.

When I take photographs, my body inevitably enters a trancelike state. Briskly weaving my way through the avenues, every cell in my body becomes as sensitive as radar, responsive to the life of the streets... If I were to give it words, I would say: "I have no choice... I have to shoot this... I can't leave this place for another's eyes... I have to shoot it... I have no choice." An endless, murmuring refrain.

I went to a Catholic School, and underneath my school uniform, I wore a metal shirt.

I have a lot of memories of Falls Church. I went to grade school in Madison Elementary School.

Dad kept us out of school, but school comes and goes. Family is forever.

Life's so ordinary that literature has to deal with the exceptional. Exceptional talent, power, social position, wealth.... Dramabegins where there's freedom of choice. And freedom of choice begins when social or psychological conditions are exceptional. That's why the inhabitants of imaginative literature have always been recruited from the pages of Who's Who.

I did fine in school. School was cool until I started personally rebelling.

I never finished high school. In fact, I hated going to school.

Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there at the sandpile at Sunday School.

I finished high school there and then I went to Rhode Island School of Design.

I've played rugby at school a bit. I didn't play football at school; I played football after school.

Conventions vs. spontaneity. This is a dialectical choice, it depends on the assessment you make of your own times. If you judge that your own time is ridden with empty insincere formalities, you plump for spontaneity, for indecorous behavior even...Much of morality is the task of compensating for one's age. One assumes unfashionable virtues, in an indecorous time. In a time hollowed out by decorum, one must school oneself in spontaneity.

I am happy with being a tennis player and the choice I took when I was 12. But clearly, if I wouldnt have been a tennis player, I would have loved to be a soccer player. But again, I am happy with the choice I made.

I went back to school for the end of eighth grade and for all of high school, which was awesome.

I never bunked school. School was always the most special place for me.

My vision is a blend of the old school and the new school, but with zero rules.

I decided to have a regular childhood and not pursue [acting] until I left school, although I wrote plays, directed plays, and got involved in theatre at school. When I left school I decided that's that I was going to pursue and gave it a crack.

I grew up in a rough area, went to an all-black school, public school.

I completed medical school at Loma Linda University School of Medicine in 1984.

Even at recess, in elementary school, it was just a known thing that I was one of the fastest in the school.

It was hard to leave my school. I've been going to the same school since kindergarden.

When I was little, I went to a Jewish community day school for most of elementary school.

Every choice that we makes creates consequences, consequences in the lives of others and we experience them in ourselves, those same consequences, every choice that we make. And by the way the choices that you might think are the most important are not always the most important.

I was a general business major, which meant that in any business school and particularly at Smith School, which is a very good school, you do a lot of team projects. Well I was the guy who gave the presentations for the team projects.

This is going to sound weird, but I never went to normal school; I went to online school.

[Larry Laurenzano] gave me a junior high school saxophone to take to high school, because I was always taking one of our school horns home to practice and I couldn't afford to buy one. He gave my friend, Tyrone, a tuba and he gave me a junior high saxophone for each of us to use at Performing Arts High School with. My audition piece was selections from Rocky. We were not sophisticated. But we had some spirit about it. We enjoyed it, and it was a way out.

I still remember going to school on game day with my high school jersey on.