Academic Quotes

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

I don't accept the argument of people like David Horowitz that the government should impose some sort of predetermined political balance on academic research.

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

I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have.

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

Credit card companies pay college students generously to stand outside dining halls, dorms, and academic buildings and encourage their fellow students to apply for credit cards.

I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.

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

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

This possibility bothered me as I thought it was not advisable to remain in one academic environment, and the long dark winters in Edinburgh could be rather dismal.

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

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

Careers in virtually all academic disciplines are fostered by being a superstar who knows more about one subject than anyone else in the world.

At that time, the academic orientation was rather technical contrary to that of the university, where art theory is very important. The teachers were renowned artists and among the best of that time.

Academic sociologists have been trained to conceive of their discipline - sociology - as the scientific study of society, and to remit to the sister discipline of psychology the study of individuals.

My academic schedule is lighter this year because it's an Olympic year.

The job in Wisconsin was the first genuine offer of an academic job in a university which I received.

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

Putting aside all the fancy words and academic doubletalk, the basic reason for having a military is to do two jobs -to kill people and to destroy.

In terms of individuals who actually inspired me, very few of the academic people that I had access to had that power over me. Maybe it's simply because I wasn't that committed to geometry.

Everyone who makes films has to be an athlete to a certain degree because cinema does not come from abstract academic thinking; it comes from your knees and thighs.

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

Academic chairs are many, but wise and noble teachers are few; lecture-rooms are numerous and large, but the number of young people who genuinely thirst after truth and justice is small

Hell! there ain't no rules around here! We are tryin' to accomplish somep'n!

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

I always had a knack for improvisation. I can write down the notes I play, but never really had a proper academic musical background. I suppose I'm blessed and cursed by the fact I have that freedom.

Academic freedom is being lost by a great many people who dare to challenge Darwinism. That's a terrifying situation. That's contrary to the principles of science.

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

Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things read in books.

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

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

Also, I liked John Cage's music. I liked it for its craziness, the use of silence, the boldness-anything to get me away from writing about.. I don't know what academic poets write about.

In search of a complete education with the ideals of trust, faith, understanding and compassion, many families are turning to the structure, discipline and academic standards of Catholic schools.

In Britain the power of authority was weakened. There was much more individual freedom and there was great academic freedom.

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

My career in academic research has not been involved with active management of securities. I've tried to understand risk-and-return relationships; also the pricing of derivative securities.

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

My perspective on the academic world is very favorable. I did certain kinds of things that I could never have done otherwise.

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

As a kid, I never thought I'd be an actress. Never, ever, ever, no way. I was really shy - bordering on social disorder shy - and I was really academic.

Landscape painting tends to fall under more academic controls. I must say I often like working within these controls. It gives me the feeling that I'm taking part in a noble tradition.

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

The objective of education should be impressed on the children's minds. The academic education of today is shallow and useless because it has no value orientation.

I think that when people are at their best, when they are thinking, reflecting, cogitating, then they are doing philosophy. So I don't see philosophy as an academic enterprise.

I tried being a mechanic and I tried catering, but I realized I had even less aptitude for semi-skilled labour than for academic work.

I'd come into town from the bush - after 28 years of field work in natural systems - and become an academic. So I turned my attention to humans, much as I had to possums in the forests.

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

Leftism has influenced the literary, academic, media, and, therefore, the political elite far more than any other religion. It has taken over Western schools from elementary through graduate.

Programming is legitimate and necessary academic endeavour.

I had no intention of becoming an academic. How could a person who was having trouble reading become an academic?