In school, many of us procrastinate and then successfully cram for tests. We get the grades and degrees we need to get the jobs we want, even if we fail to get a good general education.

But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

When I was born, the economy wasn’t in a great state; it was the Depression, and my father had to be quick to try and find work.

Work is that which you dislike doing but perform for the sake of external rewards. At school, this takes the form of grades. In society, it means money, status, privilege.

If I lost my job, I’d get a job at McDonald’s.

I’ve noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it’s far enough in the future.

I hate interviews – but you have to do them.

When my first semester grades came out, my mom and dad told me I wouldn’t be playing football.

When hiring somebody, I never ask to see a curriculum vitae. I feel that since I didn’t have one myself, it would be a bit presumptuous to ask to see anyone else’s.

Those parts of history that would undermine the vision of the Left – which prevails in our education system from elementary school to postgraduate study – are not likely to get much attention.

There is plenty of building material and more than enough manpower to make a decent home for every Cuban. But if we continue to wait for the golden calf, a thousand years will have gone by, and the problem will remain the same.

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.

I tried to be a serious student and not procrastinate, but I was still somebody that would be described as somebody who liked to have fun, too, and go to the occasional party – or two or three.

The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

I am so busy doing nothing… that the idea of doing anything – which as you know, always leads to something – cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything.

Not a law firm in the entire city of New York bid for my employment as a lawyer when I earned my degree.

Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource – the minds of our children.

The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

I think we’re doing a dreadful job of educating.

As you know from school, it’s when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared, even if you fail, you’ve done your best.

In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

Better never than late.

Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.

I never cut class. I loved getting A’s, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.

We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our education system.

Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.

An unemployed court jester is nobody’s fool.

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.

In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn’t been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A’s without taking a book home. I didn’t go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam.

After two years at UCLA, I decided to leave. I was convinced that no amount of education would help a black man get a job.

It was clear to me that if I could get through Princeton at the top of my class, I could do anything in the world.

In the long run, your human capital is your main base of competition. Your leading indicator of where you’re going to be 20 years from now is how well you’re doing in your education system.

The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.

When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that is in itself a choice.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

It’s hard to improve public education – that’s clear.

If you get knocked down – setbacks in life, like applying for a job if they don’t hire you – keep trying, keep getting up, keep doing it.

First grade is very cheap. It’s the later grades where you have to spend a lot of money if you don’t do it right.

Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.

I wanted to get a job being creative, and I did.

Governor Romney has a great business background. He is extremely well educated. He has several degrees from Harvard, including, you know, business and including a law degree.

You may delay, but time will not.

I often work by avoidance.

I’m the type of person, I have to study to get an A on the test.

My family didn’t have a lot of money, so I worked my heart out to get my degrees. But the minute I graduated, suddenly everyone was asking me, ‚Well, when are you going to get married and start having kids?‘ And the truth is I had no idea how I would balance the expected role of wife and mother with a challenging career.

Short cuts make long delays.

I’d be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I’d been given. I’d be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.

K to 12 is partly about babysitting the kids so the parents can do other things.

It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.

Well I think a lot of times we’re putting things off and I’m going to do it later. I’m going to break this bad habit or I’m going to pursue this dream or I’m going to treat my spouse better.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.

People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.

I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.