Top 1200 Academic Life Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

As an academic, I value the free exchange of ideas.

I'm an academic. I'm hardwired for a good debate.

I'm an academic. It's publish or perish.

I just wasn't academic. I wanted to be in the real world.

I'm not massively academic. I'm a commonsense person.

I am not a "culture critic" because I am not in any way interested in classifying cultural forms. I am a metaphysician, interested in the life of the forms and their surprising modalities. That is why I have no interest in the academic world.

I don't believe in firing professors. They have academic freedom.

Academic theology is false.

I want to prove you don't need to have academic syntax to be intelligent.

I come from an academic background. I wasn't raised to be into promoting myself.

I'm actually - believe it or not, for an academic - an aural learner.

I am not a journalist or an academic.

I read a lot by female psychoanalyst Lou Andreas-Salomé, who wrote prominent biographies of Nietzsche, Rilke, and Freud because she studied with all of them. She had this unbelievable insight into contemporary psychoanalysis. What is so interesting is that she wrote her life, and she knew that her life would be about these men, and it didn't stop her from leading an incredibly successful academic career. But her strange self-awareness that she was going to bookmark these men's lives is really interesting to me.

I do have a very conscious desire not to be academic. I'm antiacademic. I hate jargon. I hate that sort of pretension. I am a person who [commits] breaches of decorum - not in private life, but in my work. They are part of my mode of operation. That kind of playfulness is part of my nature in general. The paradox that, in a way, to take something very seriously, you can't always be serious about it.

I didn't do well at school, and I don't have lots of academic reference points.

I'm instinctively cautious because I'm an academic.

Academic studies in general is not something that I'm very good at.

The reason academic disputes are so vicious is that so little is at stake.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

I'm not a clown but I'm not an academic either.

Programming is legitimate and necessary academic endeavour.

Merit should count more than academic background.

I'm an artist, I'm not an academic folklorist.

The light of Christ illuminates the laboratory, his speech is the fount of communication, he makes possible the study of humans in all their interactions, he is the source of all life, he provides the wherewithal for every achievement of human civilization, he is the telos of all that is beautiful. He is, among his many other titles, the Christ of the academic road.

I'm a commercial person, not an academic.

It's taken my entire life to negotiate how to identify, and I've done a lot of research and a lot of studying, i could have a long conversation, an academic conversation about that. I don't know. I just feel like I didn't mislead anybody; I didn't deceive anybody.

I support high academic standards. Period.

I think in general, it's just an interesting age to be at, after college. You spend so much of your life, being on this academic trajectory - and then when it's done - all of a sudden the whole world is maybe open to you. But you're the one that's really in charge of your path. And that can be a really scary thing, I think.

War is not an academic exercise.

I say I'm an academic: a professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins. And I write.

I'm an academic. I argue; I engage with people.

I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.

I'm an academic. I teach at the university, and that's where I will go back to.

Acting is a lot of waiting to be picked, and I like to do a lot of things at once. I think I will have to find things that are totally mine. I have so much comfort that school and my academic life are totally mine. I hope that there's not a lot of idleness in my future.

My father was an academic, an eccentric. He was a lecturer.

Numerous are the academic professors, but rare are wise and noble teachers.

I have not had any serious non-academic job.

My academic specialization is Arab-Israel relations.

Well, that was in 1995 when I resigned from my last academic job.

I was always more of an academic than a jock.

I moved across the country to become an actor, not an academic type.

I don't have the notion that everybody has to write in some single academic style.

The information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all.

Being a professor and working are not the same thing. The academic community is composed largely of nitwits. If I may generalize. People who don't know very much about what matters very much, who view life through literature rather than the other way around.

I consistently encounter people in academic settings and scientists and journalists who feel that you can't say that anyone is wrong in any deep sense about morality, or with regard to what they value in life. I think this doubt about the application of science and reason to questions of value is really quite dangerous.

One of those disturbing tendencies in academic life is that there is a desire on the part of many in the name of open-mindedness to fall into a kind of relativistic denialism in which all positions are equally legitimate, all positions must be respected, and compromise must be entered into no matter what the starting point or reasonableness of the two parties.

In academic life, false ideas are merely false and useless ones can be fun to play with. In political life, false ideas can ruin the lives of millions and useless ones can waste precious resources. An intellectual's responsibility for his ideas is to follow their consequences wherever they may lead. A politician's responsibility is to master those consequences and prevent them from doing harm. Michael Ignatieff, a former professor at Harvard and contributing writer for the magazine, is a member of Canada's Parliament and deputy leader of the Liberal Party.

As an academic, what do you have? You have the quality of your work and the integrity with which you do it.

I wasn't an academic. I hated maths and science at school. I couldn't concentrate.

I'm very competitive and academic.

To be a writer you have to write -- and no academic degree is going to do the writing for you.

Academic success depends on research and publications.

I was like, 'I'm an academic!' I'm not at all. It turns out I'm not great at that.

Years and years ago, I said I did not want to write academic books. I want to write books that are in the language of the common person so that Joe, who didn't even go to college, can sit down and read my book and get it and apply it to his life.

Podcasting might be thought of as a form of academic gift

The further jazz moves away from the stark blue continuum and the collective realities of Afro-American and American life, the more it moves into academic concert-hall lifelessness, which can be replicated by any middle class showing off its music lessons.

I have no academic qualifications whatsoever.

By its very definition, civic responsibility means taking a healthy role in the life of one's community. That means that classroom lessons should be complemented by work outside the classroom. Service-learning does just that, tying community service to academic learning.

I'm quite sharp but not particularly academic.

I am not built for academic writings. Action is my domain.