Top 1157 Academic Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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

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

Academic theology is false.

I have not had any serious non-academic job.

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

Many faculty retreated into academic specializations and an arcane language that made them irrelevant to the task of defending the university as a public good, except for in some cases a very small audience. This has become more and more clear in the last few years as academics have become so insular, often unwilling or unable to defend the university as a public good, in spite of the widespread attacks on academic freedom, the role of the university as a democratic public sphere, and the increasing reduction of knowledge to a saleable commodity, and students to customers.

My academic specialization is Arab-Israel relations.

I have no academic qualifications whatsoever.

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

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

Podcasting might be thought of as a form of academic gift

I am not a journalist or an academic.

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

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

Merit should count more than academic background.

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

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

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

A theology without spirituality would be a sterile academic exercise.

I'm quite sharp but not particularly academic.

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

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

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

I'm very competitive and academic.

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

For the academic the rhetorical sense of superiority through the possession of knowledge is essential for facing the daily grind, turning again to the otherwise boring article, braving the students who, fresh as each class may be, will still ask the same questions year after year. Psychological survival is not achieved without effort, and the environment must be managed, knocked about with one's elbows until it takes a shape comfortable to one's sense of self. This is not selfishness, for in reshaping the environment the academic is also reinvigorating the educational process.

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

I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.

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

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic.

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

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

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

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

Programming is legitimate and necessary academic endeavour.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I'm a commercial person, not an academic.

Academic success depends on research and publications.

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

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.

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

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

I was always more of an academic than a jock.

I support high academic standards. Period.

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

Barry Jones once said that Australia is the only country where the word 'academic' is a pejorative. The academic sector has a vibrant and practical role to play in this complex world of ours. Higher education and research are worthy of your much closer attention. Yes, we can be and should be the clever country. Our progress can be within the highest ethical and moral framework. But this will only happen if we place appropriate emphasis on education, research and innovation within a truly international framework.

War is not an academic exercise.

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

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