American jazz legend Duke Ellington said, “ A problem is a chance for you to do your best.” I like this quote because I think you should always try your best on everything. If you do not try your best on everything, then you will not succeed as much as you would have learned, if you just took a few more minutes and actually tried your best. Therefore, you should always try your best on everything you do.
If I had to relate to this quote, I would probably say my sixth year of school. Sixth grade was probably the toughest year out of all of my eight years of schooling. All through elementary school, it was really easy for me, but when I got into sixth grade, it was death to me, I just did not understand anything they were saying. So I just tried my hardest on everything trying to be a great student, but I failed everything, and I thought I was the worst person …show more content…
The hardest thing I experienced in sixth grade was when my teacher came up to me at my locker going to lunch she said,” Rose you are doing very poorly in my class, you need to try harder on everything, because if you do not get all one hundred in my class for three more months straight, then you will fail my class. Also if you do not pass this project and then I do not know what I am going to do with you, you are doing horribly in my class why don't you just give up, you are already doing terrible in my class, you are doing so bad that I can not get you into summer school.” That is how bad she thought