Top 1200 Academic Standards Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

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

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

I was always more of an academic than a jock.

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

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

When I was in New York, I put together a show; I put together this really great band and performed at this place called Littlefield in Brooklyn. It was really fun. I did, like, 10 standards, and then I just hopped around different bars like Mona's and different jazz clubs in New York just singing because I know all the standards so well.

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

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

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

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

The academic life is wonderful. That's why people love to do research.

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

A theology without spirituality would be a sterile academic exercise.

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

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I have not had any serious non-academic job.

Academic success depends on research and publications.

I began to read [Bible] as a critic, an in-house critic. So I got to a place where when I got to the university, I just couldn't reconcile that book and some of its points of view with stuff I was learning in my academic career. And so then you have a choice: either you give up your academic career and close your mind and become a constant fundamentalist, or you give up your religion and become a citizen of the modern world and get a modern education, or just spend the rest of your life balancing the two things together, forcing them into a dialogue.

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

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

There was danger at times that women might not be judged by the highest standards, but more leniently because of their sex. "She is a remarkably good chemist--for a woman," you might hear a man say. It seemed to me essential, if the ablest young women scholars were to achieve the best work of which they were capable, that they should be held to the most rigorous standards. ...To advance, a woman must do at least as good work as her male colleagues, usually better.

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

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

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

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

...the program of scientific experimentation that leads you to conclude that animals are imbeciles is profoundly anthropocentric. It values being able to find your way out of a sterile maze, ignoring the fact that if the researcher who designed the maze were to be parachuted into the jungles of Borneo, he or she would be dead of starvation in a week...If I as a human being were told that the standards by which animals are being measured in these experiments are human standards, I would be insulted.

The government must nurture an eco-system where the economy is primed for growth; and growth promotes all-rounddevelopment. Where development is employment-generating ; and employment is enabled by skills. Where skills are synced with production; and production is benchmarked to quality. Where quality meets global standards; and meeting global standards drives prosperity. Most importantly, this prosperity is for the welfare of all. That is my concept ofeconomic good governance and all round development.

Programming is legitimate and necessary academic endeavour.

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

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

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

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

But you see," said Roark quietly, "I have, let’s say, sixty years to live. Most of that time will be spent working. I’ve chosen the work I want to do. If I find no joy in it, then I’m only condemning myself to sixty years of torture. And I can find the joy only if I do my work in the best way possible to me. But the best is a matter of standards—and I set my own standards. I inherit nothing. I stand at the end of no tradition. I may, perhaps, stand at the beginning of one.

Merit should count more than academic background.

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

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

When a church reaches up beyond its group and tries to enforce its standards upon a society that doesn't accept these standards, and perhaps for good reason, perhaps for bad reason, but anyway this is the problem we face in pluralistic society, that not necessarily every standard that every church tries to enforce upon the society is from the society's standpoint a good standard.

Granted the endless variations of moral customs, still the essential standards persist. As in a scientific laboratory, all else may change but the standards are unalterable- disinterested love of truth, fidelity to facts, accuracy in measurement, exactness of verification-so, in life as a whole, the towering ethical criteria remain unshaken. Falsehood is never better than truth, theft better than than honesty, treachery better than loyalty, cowardice better than courage.

My academic specialization is Arab-Israel relations.

How our governments need standards of integrity! How our communities need yardsticks to measure decency! How our neighborhoods need models of beauty and cleanliness! How our schools need continued encouragement and assistance to maintain high educational standards! Rather than spend time complaining about the direction in which these institutions are going, we need to exert our influence in shaping the right direction. A small effort by a few can result in so much good for all of mankind.

Podcasting might be thought of as a form of academic gift

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