Top 1200 Academic Work Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

My academic specialization is Arab-Israel relations.

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

I am not a journalist or an academic.

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

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

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

War is not an academic exercise.

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

Podcasting might be thought of as a form of academic gift

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

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

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

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

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

Music, to me, was - is - representative of everything I like most in life. It's beautiful and fun, but very rigorous. If you wanted to be good you had to work like crazy. It was a real relationship between effort and reward. My musical life experiences were just as important to me, in terms of forming my development, as my political experiences or my academic life.

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

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

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

I have no academic qualifications whatsoever.

Programming is legitimate and necessary academic endeavour.

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

I'm very competitive and academic.

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

I'm a commercial person, not an academic.

Academic writing you have to get right. Fiction you have to get plausible. And there's a world of difference. In a way, if someone says this didn't feel exactly right, I don't care. But that is not okay to do in academia - it's not about feeling. You want to establish a pretty solid case. So did this allow me to express things differently? Absolutely. Another thing I've been thinking about as an academic: our writing style is expository, and in fiction, withholding information matters quite a bit. Withholding things in academia - there's no place for that!

I support high academic standards. Period.

Let's see... Rihanna! Work, work, work, work, work, work; OK, what? How much work does it take to move your behind, honey? I don't understand the job situation you're going through.

[At high school in Cape Town] my interests outside my academic work were debating, tennis, and to a lesser extent, acting. I became intensely interested in astronomy and devoured the popular works of astronomers such as Sir Arthur Eddington and Sir James Jeans, from which I learnt that a knowledge of mathematics and physics was essential to the pursuit of astronomy. This increased my fondness for those subjects.

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

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

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

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

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.

I'm quite sharp but not particularly academic.

A theology without spirituality would be a sterile academic exercise.

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

Academic success depends on research and publications.

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

I have not had any serious non-academic job.

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

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

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

And if you look at all this academic work in the conferences and so on there's a constant theme that terrorism is extremely hard to define and we therefore have to have a deep thinking about it. And the reason it's hard to define is quite simple. It's hard to find a definition that includes what they do to us but excludes what we do to them. That's quite difficult. So it takes a global war on terrorism.

I started work on my first French history book in 1969; on 'Socialism in Provence' in 1974; and on the essays in Marxism and the French Left in 1978. Conversely, my first non-academic publication, a review in the 'TLS', did not come until the late 1980s, and it was not until 1993 that I published my first piece in the 'New York Review.'

Academic theology is false.

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

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

I work all the time; whatever I do, I do it, and I don't necessarily look at it as work. You could say the Auschwitz project was work, or the Lowy Institute is work, or Westfield is work, or the football is work. It is life.

My interests were more extracurricular, more external, and more social than they were academic. My birthday is also in December, so I was one of the older kids. That meant I learned social leadership early on. I was always just much better in a team and work environment than I was in a classroom environment.

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

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

I was always more of an academic than a jock.

I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

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 an artist, I'm not an academic folklorist.

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

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

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