Top 1200 Academic Life Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

Honestly, I didn't have the patience for biology or history in an academic sense, but I always liked the kind of big questions.

That I was not suited to commerce or academic study in no way proves that I should also be unfit to be a painter.

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. When visiting the U.S. from Germany for a winter academic stay.

It's not proper for a professor to go before a class and promote one party or another. That's not academic scholarship.

Serving in the executive branch is very different than sounding off from an academic perch.

The more passive one's life in the field, the greater the need to reverse the situation when one returns home, which is why the arcane and authoritative character of academic writing may be seen, to some extent, as a vengeful reaction to the inertia, uneventfulness, and waiting one had to endure as a guest at someone else's banquet. A way of redressing an existental imbalance, as it were reclaiming authorial will by superimposing one's own meaning on theirs...

What on earth have a man's name, degree, academic position, and of all things, opinions, to do with whether a thing is true?

I don't believe in pulling punches or being judicious, as the standard in literary criticism or academic musicology.

Multiculturalism and academic feminism started disparaging works of genius on the basis of their authors' sex and race.

When a profession is protected by academic freedom and tenure, it tends to turn inward. To a large extent that's good.

What is today a matter of academic speculation begins tomorrow to move armies and pull down empires.

Self-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent.

At the end of the day, I'm a very boring academic, bogged down with academia and structure and delivering an education.

I did a lot of my writing as though I was an academic, doing some piece of research as perfectly as possible.

There are so many different ways in which someone is 'intelligent.' In my opinion this doesn't always have to be measured by academic achievement.

Perceived self-inefficacy predicts avoidance of academic activities whereas anxiety does not

I think people are surprised when I string two sentences together. But I had a fiercely academic upbringing.

Becoming a model was very counter-culture for my background, which is hyper-liberal, academic and feminist.

Some people stay in the academic world just to avoid becoming self-aware. You can quote me on that.

A core plank of left-wing academic thought is that gender and race are 'socially constructed.'

Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.

We are selling ourselves very short by funneling our energies into what the traditional perception is of academic and monetary success.

I look at Google and think they have a strong academic culture. Elegant solutions to complex problems.

My tryst with theatre began in 1968, after the last day of school in that academic year.

Sociological prose is generally written without images in an exact form for an academic audience.

I am often talking about the ideas collected in Normal Life in contexts that are not academic, or that are full of people who are not primarily engaging as theorists or theory-readers. Being able to make ideas visual, especially critical ideas about movements that can be difficult to hear because of attachments we have to certain national narratives, or because of ways that we see ourselves, is especially useful.

Academic freedom and free speech mean the right to consider ideas with which you might disagree.

Academic Marxists, with their elitist sense of superiority to popular taste, are the biggest snobs in America.

MIT is governed by a second, even higher rule: the inalienable right of academic freedom.

Academic institutions in Britain have been infiltrated for years by dangerous theocratic fantasists. I should know: I was one of them.

My parents are wonderful, practical, sensible people, and the expectation was that I would study something academic.

My parents were bookish, very musical, but otherwise uninvolved in the arts or the academic world.

I enjoyed school, I was a bit of a square. I did very well in exams. I was quite lucky I was academic.

While academic abilities remain integral, it is the work ethics that form the soul of the business.

Simplicity, for reasons that are a little bit obscure, is almost not pursued, at least in the academic world.

Teacher cannot solve or heal all student stress. The teacher can be vigilant in trying to guide the child toward solutions;but the teacher's job in relation to this stress is ultimately to help the child learn to manage his or her own stress wisely. In accomplishing this, the teacher mentors higher academic learning by removing distracting stress, and teaches valuable life-survival skills.

I don't think, in my entire 18 years as a student, I ever used an exclamation point in an academic paper.

There's only so much academic disruption that a young child can deal with before he just can't catch up.

There's a certain kind of academic that comes to Washington and can't survive. They're the ones starting each sentence with 'The economic model says.'

I've always been more inclined to go out to work than carry on with academic studies.

I don't think academic writing ever was wonderful. However, science used to be much less specialized.

Accepting money from the federal government to conduct research places academic inquiry in the service of national interests.

Is it not manifest that our academic institutions should have a wider scope; that they should not be timid and keep the ruts of the last generation, but that wise men thinking for themselves and heartily seeking the good of mankind, and counting the cost of innovation, should dare to arouse the young to a just and heroic life; that the moral nature should be addressed in the school-room, and children should be treated as the high-born candidates of truth and virtue?

Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it. Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it. Life is a tragedy, confront it. Life is an adventure, dare it. Life is luck, make it. Life is too precious, do not destroy it. Life is life, fight for it.

In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal.

I was reluctant to start the company that would become Lytro, primarily due to my academic background.

The Dominican Republic has not been known in my lifetime as having world-class academic abilities.

Every winter, I'm a sexy academic deconstructionist. And in the summer, it's normally Brigitte Bardot on holiday in the 1950s.

I came from an anxious, overly intense East Coast academic family. That was the way of our tribe.

I am very interested in people trying to write because I don't have a big academic background at all.

It is my hope that the pagan media and academic establishment will implode on the force of its own corruption and stagnation.

I don't consider myself attractive. I'm an academic, and in academia, people will write you off if you look younger.

The academic community has in it the biggest concentration of alarmists, cranks and extremists this side of the giggle house.

What saved me from total academic failure and overwhelming ennui, was my love of libraries and all they encompass.

My whole academic career was totally out of Jewish anxiety, and issues surrounding achievement and adequacy.

I am joining the government not from the academic position but from St. Petersburg city council.

Israeli teachers are not required to hold an academic degree, and their salaries are the lowest in the Western world.

If you're going to equalize the academic playing field, you've got to get the kids in early childhood programs.

Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom.

I wasn't a very academic kid, and music was the way for all that feeling and angst and sex and love and anger to be channelled.