Top 1200 Stay In School Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

True opinions are a fine thing and do all sorts of good so long as they stay in their place; but they will not stay long. They run away from a man's mind, so they are not worth much until you tether them by working out the reason. Once they are tied down, they become knowledge, and are stable.

I was a strange kid in that, while most kids hate school and want to turn 18 or 21, I loved high school.

Well, when I moved to L.A. at 17, I had just come out of high school. I grew up and went to public school in Boston.

I was pretty lucky, I went to a really great school. I went to a Steiner School, which is very small and nurturing and creative, so I felt like I was in an environment where I could mature. There was less of the clique-y stuff, which can really make high school a living hell for a lot of people, going on, so I was very similar then to who I am now. I'm still a dork.

I used to come to school with my school bag hanging on one shoulder and the cricket kit on the other. It was pretty cool and I felt special.

I'm from a working-class background - I had free school meals all my life and then spent six years in art school.

It's been a struggling school for many, many years, and [that's] not surprising since it's serving some of the most disadvantaged kids in the city. It wasn't the only one by any means, but it was among those. It shows that things like good, steady, stable leadership makes a huge difference; focusing on the culture of the schools as a place where kids feel supported and want to be; supporting the teachers, so they want to stay and work hard.

At school, I was basically a loner, it was hard until I was 15 or so. Then I went to art school and was gifted with freedom to do the things I really wanted to do.

When I edit, I'm not from the school of Hello, I'm a genius, so everybody shut up. I'm from the school of Let's play it once in front of an audience, and then I'll tell you where it is going.

I started acting when I was young, and I didn't go to drama school. It was always something that I did alongside going to school and being a normal person.

I was horribly shy all through grade school and high school. But somehow I got up the nerve to audition for one play in high school - 'Auntie Mame.' I got a small part as the fiancee who comes on in the end. I got laughs. I wasn't shy at all doing the part. I can do anything on stage and write it off as a character.

I never even went to high school because I went straight from middle school into the music business. I don't really know what it is supposed to be like.

You know, addressing my crazy by name doesn’t exactly help me stay sane,” I said. “Nothing can help you stay sane at this point, Mason,” said Becks. “That ship has sailed.

Personally - I also continued my education while I was coaching, attending night school and summer school, taking correspondence courses, etc.

Every time I'd ever stepped on a basketball court, AAU, middle school, high school, I always thought about the NBA.

Like all school students, I think I did a play in my school. The common things, I would say. Nothing really exceptional.

I never want to get content. I never want to think that I'm at a certain spot and I'm gonna stay there, because this organization's hard to stay in, and this is the wrong place to get complacent in.

Someone once told me a story about long term relationships. To think of them as a continent to explore. I could spend a lifetime backpacking through Africa, and I would still never know all there is to know about that continent. To stay the course, to stay intentional, to stay curious and connected - that's the heart of it. But it's so easy to lose track of the trail, to get tired, to want to give up, or to want a new adventure. It can be so easy to lose sight of the goodness and mystery within the person sitting right in front of you.

Cheating in school is a form of self-deception. We go to school to learn. We cheat ourselves when we coast on the efforts and scholarship of someone else.

My mom put me into a performing arts elementary school back in Cincinnati, so I started studying acting in school when I was seven.

Maybe it will be difficult, but I want to finish school. My parents want me to finish school, and I am pretty sure I will. I will not go to university; I will turn professional when I finish school.

In high school, I was selected for NASA's Math & Science program. I'd hop on the yellow school bus and head up to Cape Canaveral.

It has always been my dream to open a school for the poor children in the city who drop out of school due to financial problems.

I do school online. My favorite thing to do with school is to finish things and then watch it go away, especially when I am working on a laptop.

High school is very intense for everyone. But at a boarding school, because you're there 24 hours a day, everything gets magnified.

Mayo College, where I got my grounding, is a private boarding school. It is a traditional school with brilliant teachers including some from overseas.

He that has his chains knocked off, and the prison doors set open to him, is perfectly at liberty, because he may either go or stay, as he best likes; though his preference be determined to stay, by the darkness of the night, or illness of the weather, or want of other lodging.

I was 17, still in school, and my manager saw me in school, and then we hooked up, and after that, I went straight into making music.

Parents teach in the toughest school in the world - The School for Making People. You are the board of education, the principal, the classroom teacher, and the janitor.

Ninety percent of the students take the 'preferred lender.' Why? Because that's the nature of the relationship. You trust the school. The school is in a position of authority.

Without federal standards for school lunches, candy bars, packaged snacks and soda can be offered to our children in school.

I had a hard time going back to school after T2. I really didnt want to go to private school.

You just have to stay the course, you can't get too high or too low on yourself. There is always going to be those highs and those lows, but you have to stay even keel yourself.

I think my parents wanted me to do something very normal, have a normal person job and not be confronted by the instability of an artistic pursuit, but there wasn't really a lot they could do to stop me. I was, at one point, going to go to law school when I finished high school, but the next day I got accepted into acting school and there was no real question in my mind of what I was going to do.

The whole purpose of maintaining your power in government is to make sure that you stay in government. You stay in government by finding out who is liable to be against you. To do that, you try and put your finger into every single pie that is available to you.

I was Santa Claus in first year of primary school, our elementarys school play, because I had most panache, that was probably why. I was 5.

As CEO of Accenture, I am not French anymore. When I'm in India, I am Indian. We are a company with no physical headquarters. We operate on a virtual level. Our leadership meetings are teleconferences, which is why the Board asked me to stay on in France. And I tell others to stay in their own countries.

I always stay positive if I can. I always stay upbeat and always have a ton of energy.

Once I started the first school, I realized this is what my life is meant to be, is to promote education and help kids go to school and that's very clear.

What the Dalai Lama had to resolve was whether to stay in Tibet or leave. He wanted to stay, but staying would have meant the total destruction of Tibet, because he would have died and that would have ripped the heart out of his people.

When I edit, I'm not from the school of Hello, I'm a genius, so everybody shut up. I'm from the school of Let's play it once in front of an audience, and then I'll tell you where it is going

I get an awful lot of people coming up and saying they went to school with me. There must have been 80,000 pupils at that school!

I went to high school every single day in an all-male Jesuit school at McQuaid with short hair, no beard, suit jacket, tie.

I left school with basically nothing, I was a special needs kid. I did feel as though my school had let me down.

When I was at school, I used to end every school day with fountain pen ink all over my hands and face and down my shirt.

Get out of bed, go to school, stick at school. Make it happen for yourself because those opportunities are waiting.

And as you got older, the training became more developed and precise. We did plays, we had voice classes with great dialect coaches. But I was never into it on a school level; it was this kind of private little thing I did. At school I was a rugby guy. At school I was a rugby guy. I was causing trouble with my mates and skating and tagging buildings, and smoking bongs.

True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but the point is not only to get out - you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.

Elite private-school educations leave students unprepared for a standardized test with which their public school counterparts are innately familiar.

I started making little short films with friends, and then I decided I wanted to get into the school play in high school.

My mother brought us to the library every week, and I read a lot. That's what kept me company. I went from school to school, but there was always reading.

I'd always thought that if I could get sober and stay sober, I would be able to have a career making music. My drug and alcohol addiction was the one thing holding me back. I had finally gotten the tools to stay sober, and it was just a matter of writing the songs.

You gotta stay 'fresh to death,' I call it. Fresh outfit, fresh haircut, fresh tan. Just stay fresh.

Do you want to do this thing? Sit down and do it. Are you not writing? Keep sitting there. Does it not feel right? Keep sitting there. Think of yourself as a monk walking the path to enlightenment. Think of yourself as a high school senior wanting to be a neurosurgeon. Is it possible? Yes. Is there some shortcut? Not one I've found. Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world.

You can never rely on musicians. I quit high school at one point to make a go of it with this band and we kept breaking up. So I went back to school.

I thought about going to NYU film school - that was this ideal to me. But I didn't make any kind of grades in high school.

I promised to finish school, so I'll figure it out I guess. Besides, I'm on a special school for musicians and artists, so I'm not the only one with this life style.

When I was younger I was always big; I was a fat boy at school. I had an early growth spurt, and when I went to secondary school I was tall enough to be a policeman.

I didn't go to acting school, but I've been observing my fellow man for 66 years now, and I would think that's the best school there is.

I was very quiet until I got at the piano, and weekends, lunch breaks, after school, before school, I was just making music.