Top 1200 Academic Achievement Quotes & Sayings - Page 14
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Last updated on October 21, 2024.
I grew up in a socialist country. And I have seen what that does to people. There is no hope, no freedom. No pride in achievement.
My biggest achievement is that I can make a lot of people smile just by my presence, even if it's a Lux ad.
I was an academic and I lost my assignment at Harvard. Meanwhile, [David Petraeus] gets invited to Harvard to become a fellow.
Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently.
Ethics is not for wimps. It's not easy being a good person. That's why it's such a lofty goal and an admirable achievement
This is a large part of the academic profession: to make up complex, subtle arguments that are childishly ridiculous but are enveloped in sufficient profundity that they take on a kind of plausibility.
First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct.
You could mention my name in any hallway in any academic institution and you would have people foaming at the mouth.
The world, I think, will wait a long time for Nikola Tesla's equal in achievement and imagination.
Greatness and nearsightedness are incompatible. Meaningful achievement depends on lifting one's sights and pushing toward the horizon.
Even if I can take sanitary napkins to 10% of the poor women in India, it will be big achievement.
Classrooms cannot and should not be coerced into adopting federal academic standards. That's not just my belief; it's federal law.
Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.
I think that when people are at their best, when they are thinking, reflecting, cogitating, then they are doing philosophy. So I don't see philosophy as an academic enterprise.
Buddhism maintains that the common reaction of the human mind to pleasure and to achievement is not satisfaction; it's craving for more.
It's especially ridiculous to think you have to be successful when you're so young. You should be able to adventure and not worry so much about achievement.
For one thing, to predict the advent of big business was considering the conditions of Marx's day an achievement in itself.
I mean, one thing I know about change is we are not going to close the achievement gap without educators.
Throughout the course of my life, I have been very fortunate to have had excellent teachers - not just in meditation, but in martial arts, music, scuba diving, and in my academic education.
The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.
Large portions of life's disappointments are individuals who did not understand that they were so near achievement when they surrendered.
Harner has impeccable credentials, both as an academic and as a practicing shaman. Without doubt (since the recent death of Mircea Eliade) the world's leading authority on shamanism.
Every child is entitled to an academic education. But resilience, stickability, self-esteem - they need these things, too, and even more than the privately educated.
Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes.
Can a geology teacher blithely tell his students that the earth is flat, or a European history professor that the Holocaust didn't happen? That's not academic freedom, but dereliction of duty.
I had to do the academic writing. At a top research university, publishing of a certain kind is very important. So your friend is right. You can't do three things well.
It's so important for me to do my own stunts. The sense of achievement is so immense. But the studios don't want to take the risk.
I think it gets overused and tossed around in ways that aren't true. Every impressive achievement is not genius.
I don't know why there is still any barrier between men and women in terms of achievement and success.
Not a moment passes these days without fresh rushes of academic lemmings off the cliffs they proclaim the political responsibilities of the critic, but eventually all this moralizing will subside.
You can wish to have an Oscar someday or some other award, but Life Achievement? You don't see yourself that way.
When I started on 'Roseanne,' it was a great achievement for me at the time. But I wasn't a part of building it; I wasn't a carpenter in creating that juggernaut.
The film was fair to his musical achievement and gave him every opportunity to explain himself.
The journey that I have undertaken, meeting people from all walks of life and learning from them, has been my biggest achievement.
You know you're old when you get a lifetime achievement award. It's a message you've been around too long.
I love art, but I'm not an academic; I just like what I like.
Theatre should be a taxing experience: the greatest achievement of a writer is to produce a character who creates anxiety.
The 'leisured' wife was a badge of achievement, the ornament to hard work and virtue for families on the way up.
You don't have to be musician to listen to music, and you don't have to be a filmmaker to go to the cinema, but somehow when we think of science, we think of it only as an academic discipline.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is the major achievement of President Obama's first term.
I wasn't an extroverted kid. I was very academic and very introverted.
I married a university professor, raised a son, and worked as an academic librarian. My husband and I moved to the Ozarks, bought a farm, and started a commercial beekeeping business. And divorced.
A distinction between renewable and not renewable energy is academic.
Some people don't need parental commitment, they will still come out great, but for others, parents can be critical in providing moral and academic guidance.
'Normal' is not clinical, it's not autobiographical, and I don't claim to be objective. It's strictly my perceptions and thoughts about the people that I met and the stories that I heard. It was never meant to be an academic work.
I couldn't fight, and I wasn't particularly interested in the academic. So I started doing satiric bits in the school bathroom. Guys would cut class to come and see me.
The main substantive achievement of neoliberalism has been to redistribute rather than to generate wealth and income.
Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.
I want you to have all the academic freedom you want as long as you wind up saying the bible account (of creation) is true and all others are not.
Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.
I have a passion for academic life, a passion for students and for the ability and the narrative of a university to make a difference in the world in which they reside.
In my opinion, character is the most important determinant of a person's success, achievement and ability to handle adversity.
If your goals are ambitious and crazy enough, even failure will be a pretty good achievement.
In the achievement of greater performances, of beating formidable rivals, the athlete defeats fear and conquers himself.
At age 11 in 1960, I moved to an academic state secondary school, Harrow County Grammar School for Boys.
I don't see why a book shouldn't be intellectually sound, entertaining, and fun to read. Historians who write academic history, which is unreadable, are basically wasting their time.
In academic life you seek to state absolute truths; in politics you seek to accommodate truth to the facts around you.
I have found that meditation has helped me with my academic career and has given me insights into musical composition and software design.
There was not an awareness of pop culture in the household. There was a lot of respect for working hard, and for intellectual and professional achievement.
Once I engage in something, I really engage in it, and I love the process of reading and researching because I come from an academic background.
