Quotes about schoolwork (16 Quotes)



    I'll definitely have to start a lot earlier on my schoolwork. Usually, I'm in the library on Sunday trying to get things done, because usually I don't have a lot of time. It's school, work and then schoolwork for me.

    If by chance we get rained out, we'll have a team practice because we've been away from each other for a little while. Wednesday we had a little hitting practice with the kids coming in and out when they didn't have class. I'm not too concerned about the time off. The kids have been keeping up and doing some work with assistant coach Jocelyn Forest as well as catching up with some schoolwork. We should be fine when we get back out there.


    I read. It's also nice for me to get involved in schoolwork, which is a totally different world than acting. It makes me feel like I am doing things that normal people are doing at my age.





    I think I bring a different perspective because I've been in their seats, I know exactly what they're going through. It was only five or six years ago I was experiencing the same exact things they're experiencing, certainly from a soccer perspective, but also the challenges of schoolwork and social life, and everything that goes into being at Penn.

    It's hard to be on a golf team because of the burden it places on a kid trying to get his schoolwork in. We miss entire days of classes to go to matches and I understand how hard that can be. But we've got a very competitive group and we'll be all right.


    I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I - if I'm not interested in something, I don't grasp it.


    Nine Inch Nails was an experiment with me in discipline. I realized when I was 23 that I had never really tried anything. Schoolwork came easy to me. I learned to play piano effortlessly. I was coasting. I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100 percent, because I had never reached true failure.

    It's hard now being a young performer, it's a lot harder than I thought it was going to be. You know, dealing with schoolwork and friendships and everything. But it's great, though. You gotta cope.

    Both of my parents were immigrants from China -- we had to work really hard to get here. Our financial situation was not good at many points when I was growing up. They were not able to help me with schoolwork that much, but otherwise they have always been great examples for me to be hardworking.



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