"I didn't only have a perceptual problem, I was also so nervous and so upset. The process just didn't work. I lost enthusiasm for school and I flunked second grade. The teachers said I was lazy."

Work, Enthusiasm, School, Teachers

2

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"I didn't only have a perceptual problem, I was also so nervous and so upset. The process just didn't work. I lost enthusiasm for school and I flunked second grade. The teachers said I was lazy."

Exlpore more Work quotes

"The only work I did for the next five years after splitting from Vincent was work I'd already lined up."

Greta Scacchi, Italian Actress

Work, Years

"I've done my best to work from a place of humility - always looking over your shoulder saying, "Does this suck?" and I think that's a good way to work. The other way to work is where you start to think, "I'm on fire, I'm amazing!" and I don't think that's the way to work."

David O. Russell, American Director

Work, Fire, Humility, Saying

"Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone."

Charles de Gaulle, French Leader

Work, Men, Action

"With Fellini, the fear dropped out of my work because it was such a happy experience... hanging out with Fellini, having pasta on the set with Fellini, and going out with Fellini!"

Terence Stamp, British Actor

Work, Experience, Fear

"To work is to feel alive."

Tony Bennett, American Musician

Work,

"When you take something extremely broad, then it is not a work of expansion or work of compression. It's hard because you have to decide what to throw out."

Iris Chang, Chinese Historian

Work,

"I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations."

Harri Holkeri, Finnish Politician

Work, Hope, Nations, United

"When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt."

Henry J. Kaiser, American Businessman

Work,

"The rest of my work, besides sketching and keeping a diary, which was the most troublesome of all, consisted in making geological and zoological collections."

John H. Speke, British Explorer

Work, Rest

"If you can find your perfect job, create one."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Work, Job, Create, Find

Explore more quotes by Bruce Jenner

"The biggest problem with dyslexic kids is not the perceptual problem, it is their perception of themselves. That was my biggest problem."

Perception, Kids

"Nobody has milked one performance better than me - and I'm damned proud of it."

Performance,

"If you're going to dedicate every second to winning the decathlon, what are you doing wasting your time in bed?"

Time, Winning, Bed

"We put so much pressure on kids to excel in school at such a young age."

Age, Kids, Pressure, School

"I didn't only have a perceptual problem, I was also so nervous and so upset. The process just didn't work. I lost enthusiasm for school and I flunked second grade. The teachers said I was lazy."

Work, Enthusiasm, School, Teachers

"Waving the flag at the 1976 Olympics wasn't my idea. It was too much apple pie and ice cream. Not that I don't love my country, but I felt it was my victory up there, I put all the time into it."

Love, Time, Idea, Victory

"I still have nightmares about taking tests."

Test, Tests

"First of all, I try to be a positive role model."

Positive, First

"It caused more problems as a young kid, because the simple process of perceiving words on a piece of paper was hard for me. Many people think dyslexic people see things backwards. They don't see things backwards."

People, Problems, Words

"When the time comes for your brain to process the information, the second word comes up faster than the first one. So when it's in your head, all of a sudden, it comes out backwards and you think of the word backwards."

Time, First, Information, Word