Top 1200 Academic Life Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

I think serious research tends to be associated with higher academic quality, more prestige, more resources, and even, heaven help us, better teaching, to a greater extent than you might think. Folks who don't have an active intellectual life become, though the long years of just teaching, less intellectually alive and exciting.

I'm not an academic type in term of personality. I had my share of madness as a teenager.

A theology without spirituality would be a sterile academic exercise.

The resources of a university, of a college, should not be wasted in merely academic pursuits.

I don't approach my writing or my work from an academic or analytical point of view. I do it for myself.

Academic culture is not merely indifferent to teaching, it is actively hostile to it.

I had this habit of an academic of answering the question. I should have fobbed it off.

I'm trying to make music a sensual expression, not an academic experiment.

I was born to a Nigerian dad and a Kenyan mom, and coming to the States was really academic.

If the academic community gets its way, we will soon all be speaking with a single voice.

I would not be able to pen an academic and dry diatribe. I have too much talent for that.

I come from an academic background, and I have a genuine interest in social change.

Entrepreneurship can be taught to people with average academic abilities - the proof of that is everywhere you look.

If I had been a member of the academic establishment, I could have done other experiments.

My academic identity is that of a folklorist, and for many years I have taught only folklore courses.

There are serious and legitimate concerns about academic espionage at our universities.

I did hardly any academic work. I learnt a fair amount, though.

The realization that you can't predict the future -- and mold it -- could only come as a shock to an academic.

If you don't have an academic brain, if you are not interested in maths or science, you are treated as a second-class citizen.

And in most highly academic environments in the United States, no one fails anything.

My family are quite academic, and I was set to study economics and politics at university.

American universities have never considered academic merit the sole criterion for admittance.

I am no longer a complete pariah in some academic quarters.

It is essential to practice spiritual disciplines along with academic studies.

I became an academic so that I could share my knowledge and experience with students.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic.

My daughter is on academic scholarship at the University of Central Florida. I feel so blessed.

My parents are two academics that came to Canada to pursue academic opportunities.

I wasn't very academic at school, but the Wolsey Youth Theatre was the saving of me.

Love of learning led to monasteries, which became the cradle of academic guilds.

I didn't want to be in a situation where I was broader than the boys, which I was, in the academic world.

Nothing infuriates an academic more than a talented and successful colleague.

In my spiritual and academic journeys, I have learned that it is imperative for Christians to pursue truth at all costs.

I had to make a choice - recede into the academic world, or wade into politics.

Sociologists are those academic accountants who think that truth can be shaken from an abacus.

Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.

No one expects a Broadway musical comedy to be in the vanguard of what is bohemian, raunchy, folkloric, academic or aggressively experimental. That is not its job. Its job is to synthesize musical and social traditions with high-styled vivacity, especially those that dwell on different sides of the tracks in real life. The highbrow meets the lowbrow; sweet meets hot; uptown, downtown, all around the town.

Though I have friends aplenty in academia, I don't operate within the academic system myself.

I am an academic, and I have always made it clear that my ultimate home is in the realm of ideas.

In fact, there is an academic blackout about the atrocities perpetrated in the name of communism and socialism.

It's great fun being an academic because you have a certain licence to be a bit of a joker.

There's some pretty good academic research that suggest that what Americans don't like is losing.

I don't approach anything I do like an academic. I'm not trained, and I work with intuition a great deal.

Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background.

I was interested in implements of mass destruction - from an academic point of view.

I'm not an academic, but I've always loved poetry since I've been small.

Some of my academic friends think I've fallen from a very special grace.

I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time.

Those of us forged in the crucibles of difference know that survival is not an academic skill.

Mom was an academic, so the riches that she had to bestow were of the mind.

I got through at Ignatius. I did OK, not great in any of my academic endeavors.

In recent times, Surrealist painters have used descriptive illusionistic academic methods.

Mine is studying script and being very academic and trying to be important.

Nobody wants to be a lawyer - it's hard work. But it was kind of my academic route.

The trailblazers in human, academic, scientific and religious freedom have always been nonconformists.

I graduated with an English degree and worked for awhile in academic publishing.

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

The academic Left has a long history of taking the idea of 'false consciousness' seriously.

One of the best indicators of student achievement is the academic success of the mother in the home.

An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another.