#grades

Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior. ↗

— Boethius

#degrades #either #ennobles #music #our

What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning. ↗

— Chuck Grassley

#child #different #different way #gifted #good

A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#deed #degrades #demolish #ego #eventually

Of mediumship there are many grades, one of the simplest forms being the capacity to receive an impression or automatic writing, under peaceful conditions, in an ordinary state; but the whole subject is too large to be treated here. ↗

— Oliver Joseph Lodge

#being #capacity #conditions #forms #grades

I wasn't in school often enough to really belong to a 'clique,' but my friends all studied hard and got pretty good grades. They were good people with self-respect. I still like to be friends with people I admire something about; I really believe that we become like the people we're surrounded by, so I choose my friends carefully! ↗

— Danica McKellar

#admire #become #believe #belong #carefully

Stephen Hawking said he spent most of his first couple of years at Cambridge reading science fiction (and I believe that, because his grades weren't all that great). ↗

— Frederik Pohl

#believe #cambridge #couple #fiction #first

I lived in a town of 400 until I was like nine or ten. My dad coached all the sports - he was a gym teacher and health teacher for grades K-12. ↗

— January Jones

#dad #grades #gym #health #i

Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it. ↗

— George Sand

#degrades #dispense #hardens #receive #those

I'd like to say I was smart enough to finish six grades in five years, but I think perhaps the teacher was just glad to get rid of me. ↗

— Alan Shepard

#finish #five #get #glad #grades

You know, I went to Oberlin. At that time, grades were - you elected to have them or not. It was all of that era where grades were out the window. But I did very well in school. I didn't really study the arts; I practiced the arts. ↗

— Julie Taymor

#did #elected #era #grades #i