Quotes about Academic

Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them. Votes: 6

It's too much to expect in an academic setting that we should all agree, but it is not too much to expect discipline and unvarying civility. Votes: 4

Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes. Votes: 4

It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are entirely moral questions about which science cannot decide. Votes: 4

Academic theology is false. Votes: 3

Academic success depends on research and publications. Votes: 3

I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace. Votes: 3

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic! Votes: 3

I was always more of an academic than a jock. Votes: 3

I was interested in implements of mass destruction - from an academic point of view. Votes: 3

Academic staff rather enjoy coming to conclusions, but they don't like coming to decisions at all. Votes: 3

Academic Marxism is a fantasy world, and unctuous compassion-sweepstakes, into which real workers or peasants never penetrate. Votes: 3

At age 11 in 1960, I moved to an academic state secondary school, Harrow County Grammar School for Boys. Votes: 3

In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal. Votes: 3

Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them. Votes: 3

Academic Marxists, with their elitist sense of superiority to popular taste, are the biggest snobs in America. Votes: 3

The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all. Votes: 3

An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another. Votes: 3

Academic failure contributes to poverty and poor health and undermines workforce productivity in ways that harm the entire society. Votes: 3

Academic writing you have to get right. Fiction you have to get plausible. And there's a world of difference. Votes: 3

The job in Wisconsin was the first genuine offer of an academic job in a university which I received. Votes: 3

The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department. Votes: 3

Academics act like they are important, but when something is academic it is meaningless. People say, 'It's academic, now let's get work done. Votes: 3

Careers in virtually all academic disciplines are fostered by being a superstar who knows more about one subject than anyone else in the world. Votes: 3

Designs that have a whiff of complex impenetrability tends to suggest big, complicated ideas. Academic writing tends to work the same way, I understand. Votes: 3

Women's studies is a comfy, chummy morass of unchallenged groupthink . It is, with rare exception, totally unscholarly. Academic feminists have silenced men and dissenting women. Votes: 3

An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providing alternative opportunities to reward the skills of children who learn differently. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Academic training in beauty is a sham. We have been so deceived, but so well deceived that we can scarcely get back even a shadow of the truth. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Academic disciplines are subject to being overtaken by attacks of "knowingness"- a state of mind and soul that prevents shudders of awe and makes one immune to enthusiasm. Votes: 3

Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known. This was the sound conclusion of the Academic sceptics, who were the least surly of philosophers. Votes: 3

To become an academic expert takes years of studying. Academic experts are experts in how and what others have done. They use case studies and observation to understand a subject. Votes: 3

I came out of the Civil Rights Movement, and I had a different kind of focus than most people who have just the academic background as their primary training experience Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

My knowledge of science came from being with Carl, not from formal academic training. Carl gave me a thrilling tutorial in science and math that lasted the 20 years we were together. Votes: 3

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 Votes: 3

Academic achievement was something I'd always sought as a form of reward. Good grades pleased my parents, good grades pleased my teachers; you got them in order to sew up approval. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information which is how I got a good job in journalism. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower. Votes: 3

Meanwhile, parents, students and teachers all report higher satisfaction with charter schools. People like them. They cost less money. They raise the academic achievement of poor kids. Go ahead, get a little enthused. Votes: 3

I had been writing for about twelve years. I knew pretty well how you could find things out, but I had never been trained in an academic way how to go about the research. Votes: 3

Academic work is one of those fields which contain a pearl so precious that it is worth while to sell all our possessions, keeping nothing for ourselves, in order to be able to acquire it. Votes: 3

Academic freedom really means freedom of inquiry. To be able to probe according to one's own interest, knowledge and conscience is the most important freedom the scholar has, and part of that process is to state its results. Votes: 3

Academic experts may not be good at doing what they are experts in themselves, but they are good at explaining the subject matter to others. They write books, teach courses and offer lessons and give steps others can follow. Votes: 3

Academic scientists aren't generally interested in books for the public. So when one comes out, the authors can't expect much praise from scientists. My goal both as a singer and an instructor is to educate through provocation and entertainment. Votes: 3

As we talk about the need to foster academic achievement, we must recognize and reward those who strive academically, just as we honor athletic champions. Meeting the President of the United States is just the honor we should bestow on our academic champions. Votes: 3

The information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all. Votes: 1

I look at Google and think they have a strong academic culture. Elegant solutions to complex problems. Votes: 1

I enjoyed school, I was a bit of a square. I did very well in exams. I was quite lucky I was academic. Votes: 1

Coming out as an atheist can cost an academic his or her job in some parts of America, and many choose to keep quiet about their atheism. Votes: 1

A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible 'lifestyles' turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind. Votes: 1

The negative attitudes toward the genres - romance, science-fiction, westerns, suspense, etc. - are fallout from the academic world's long-standing fascination with existential philosophy and modern theories of psychology and sociology. Votes: 1

No one ever sees the sleepless nights, the years of studying and 14-hour days earning your dues. I spent three years isolated in an academic environment to be the best actor I could. Votes: 1

My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of acquaintances had gradually grown so large that it was only natural new friendships should grow out of it. Votes: 1

When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful marriage this was, biology and anthropology. I was around 16 years old when I made this particular choice of academic pursuit. Votes: 1

A high-speed connection is no more an essential civil right than 3G cell phone service or a Netflix account. Increasing competition and restoring academic excellence in abysmal public schools is far more of an imperative to minority children than handing them iPads. Votes: 1

One of the key elements of human behavior is, humans have a greater fear of loss than enjoyment of success. All the academic studies will show you that the fear of loss of capital is far greater than the enjoyment of gains. Votes: 1

The world has today 546 nuclear plants generating electricity. Their experience is being continuously researched, and feedback should be provided to all. Nuclear scientists have to interact with the people of the nation, and academic institutions continuously update nuclear power generation technology and safety. Votes: 1

A balanced diet and physical activity are vital to academic performance. A healthy diet has a direct link to increased cognitive function and memory skills, decreased absenteeism from school, and improved mood. These advantages can help students stay focused and complete their coursework. Votes: 1

The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in Heaven and Earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent. Votes: 1

I've spent quality time in the aerospace community, with my service on two presidential commissions, but at heart, I'm an academic. Being an academic means I don't wield power over person, place or thing. I don't command armies; I don't lead labor unions. All I have is the power of thought. Votes: 1

In the United States, one of the main topics of academic political science is the study of attitudes and policy and their correlation. The study of attitudes is reasonably easy in the United States: heavily-polled society, pretty serious and accurate polls, and policy you can see, and you can compare them. Votes: 1

To teach an academic subject is certainly not easy, but compared to coaching, it is. We can say 'two plus two is four' to every kid and be sure that we are right. But in coaching, we have to literally get to the soul of the people we are dealing with. Votes: 1

I went to M.I.T. in the summer of 1951 as a 'C.L.E. Moore Instructor.' I had been an instructor at Princeton for one year after obtaining my degree in 1950. It seemed desirable more for personal and social reasons than academic ones to accept the higher-paying instructorship at M.I.T. Votes: 1

I went to a strict elementary school with nuns, and uniforms that I'm pretty sure were made out of sandpaper. It was an academic, sports-oriented place. I liked to read, and wanted to act, and didn't try out for volleyball. I was weird. The other girls would dip my hair in ink and stuff. Votes: 1

I consistently encounter people in academic settings and scientists and journalists who feel that you can't say that anyone is wrong in any deep sense about morality, or with regard to what they value in life. I think this doubt about the application of science and reason to questions of value is really quite dangerous. Votes: 1

When we study Shakespeare on the page, for academic purposes, we may require all kinds of help. Generally, we read him in modern spelling and with modern punctuation, and with notes. But any poetry that is performed - from song lyric to tragic speech - must make its point, as it were, without reference back. Votes: 1

Productivity - the amount of output delivered per hour of work in the economy - is often viewed as the engine of progress in modern capitalist economies. Output is everything. Time is money. The quest for increased productivity occupies reams of academic literature and haunts the waking hours of C.E.O.s and finance ministers. Votes: 1

War is not an academic exercise. Votes: 0

I have no academic qualifications whatsoever. Votes: 0

Programming is legitimate and necessary academic endeavour. Votes: 0

I'm an academic. It's publish or perish. Votes: 0

I'm a commercial person, not an academic. Votes: 0

I have not had any serious non-academic job. Votes: 0

I'm an artist, I'm not an academic folklorist. Votes: 0

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic. Votes: 0

I'm an academic. I'm hardwired for a good debate. Votes: 0

I'm not a clown but I'm not an academic either. Votes: 0

I don't believe in firing professors. They have academic freedom. Votes: 0

Life without music is meaningless, music without life is academic. Votes: 0

Success in life does not necessarily originate with academic success. Votes: 0

A theology without spirituality would be a sterile academic exercise. Votes: 0

Podcasting might be thought of as a form of academic gift Votes: 0

In recent times, Surrealist painters have used descriptive illusionistic academic methods. Votes: 0

Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background. Votes: 0

It is essential to practice spiritual disciplines along with academic studies. Votes: 0

Perceived self-inefficacy predicts avoidance of academic activities whereas anxiety does not Votes: 0

Nothing infuriates an academic more than a talented and successful colleague. Votes: 0

My father was an academic, an eccentric. He was a lecturer. Votes: 0

I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time. Votes: 0

I am not built for academic writings. Action is my domain. Votes: 0

My academic schedule is lighter this year because it's an Olympic year. Votes: 0

Self-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent. Votes: 0

A rare academic (was) a man who knew what he didn't know. Votes: 0

I'm trying to make music a sensual expression, not an academic experiment. Votes: 0

I wasn't an extroverted kid. I was very academic and very introverted. Votes: 0

Numerous are the academic professors, but rare are wise and noble teachers. Votes: 0

To create something new, knowledge is essentially required, but not academic degree. Votes: 0

The academic life is wonderful. That's why people love to do research. Votes: 0

Jazz is neither specific repertoire, nor academic exercise... but a way of life. Votes: 0

Love of learning led to monasteries, which became the cradle of academic guilds. Votes: 0

The trailblazers in human, academic, scientific and religious freedom have always been nonconformists. Votes: 0

To overcome the academic prose you have first to overcome the academic pose, Votes: 0

Mine is studying script and being very academic and trying to be important. Votes: 0

Free will, determinism, meaning, existence, etc. are academic problems, not problems in life. Votes: 0

Some of my academic friends think I've fallen from a very special grace. Votes: 0

I'm not an academic, but I've always loved poetry since I've been small. Votes: 0

Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace. Votes: 0

Most academic economists know nothing of economy. In fact, they know little of anything. Votes: 0

And in most highly academic environments in the United States, no one fails anything. Votes: 0

The reason academic disputes are so vicious is that so little is at stake. Votes: 0

I love art, but I'm not an academic; I just like what I like. Votes: 0

I wasn't an academic. I hated maths and science at school. I couldn't concentrate. Votes: 0

I want to prove you don't need to have academic syntax to be intelligent. Votes: 0

Becoming a model was very counter-culture for my background, which is hyper-liberal, academic and feminist. Votes: 0

I say I'm an academic: a professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins. And I write. Votes: 0

There's some pretty good academic research that suggest that what Americans don't like is losing. Votes: 0

Sociologists are those academic accountants who think that truth can be shaken from an abacus. Votes: 0

I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling. Votes: 0

I want parents to teach that academic intelligence is essential, but so is financial intelligence. Votes: 0

I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written. Votes: 0

If you think your child's academic studies are more important than the arts, think again. Votes: 0

I don't have the notion that everybody has to write in some single academic style Votes: 0

I didn't have a normal academic career. I never studied cinema. I learned from life. Votes: 0

I became an academic so that I could share my knowledge and experience with students. Votes: 0

Sociological prose is generally written without images in an exact form for an academic audience. Votes: 0

MIT is governed by a second, even higher rule: the inalienable right of academic freedom. Votes: 0

I'm an academic. I teach at the university, and that's where I will go back to. Votes: 0

I don't think academic writing ever was wonderful. However, science used to be much less specialized. Votes: 0

My whole academic career was totally out of Jewish anxiety, and issues surrounding achievement and adequacy. Votes: 0

I had to make a choice - recede into the academic world, or wade into politics. Votes: 0

If I had been a member of the academic establishment, I could have done other experiments. Votes: 0

I've always been more inclined to go out to work than carry on with academic studies. Votes: 0

The academic world was marching toward ever more specialized knowledge, expressed in ever more dense jargon. Votes: 0

The resources of a university, of a college, should not be wasted in merely academic pursuits. Votes: 0

I am joining the government not from the academic position but from St. Petersburg city council. Votes: 0

Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom. Votes: 0

A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar. Votes: 0

What is today a matter of academic speculation begins tomorrow to move armies and pull down empires. Votes: 0

The arts are statistically proven to increase independent thinking, creativity, discipline, balance, and academic improvement in children. Votes: 0

My parents are wonderful, practical, sensible people, and the expectation was that I would study something academic. Votes: 0

Such boycotts threaten academic speech and exchange, which is our solemn duty as academic institutions to protect. Votes: 0

Those of us forged in the crucibles of difference know that survival is not an academic skill. Votes: 0

In academic life, false ideas are merely false, and useless ones can be fun to play with. Votes: 0

I had this habit of an academic of answering the question. I should have fobbed it off. Votes: 0

Knowledge without know-how is sterile. We use the word academic in a pejorative sense to identify this limitation. Votes: 0

The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination Votes: 0

Human intelligence is richer and more dynamic than we have been led to believe by formal academic education. Votes: 0

I think people are surprised when I string two sentences together. But I had a fiercely academic upbringing. Votes: 0

Nobody wants to be a lawyer - it's hard work. But it was kind of my academic route. Votes: 0

I really didn't like the academic structure of science, but I realized I loved science and missed science. Votes: 0

Accepting money from the federal government to conduct research places academic inquiry in the service of national interests. Votes: 0

Some people stay in the academic world just to avoid becoming self-aware. You can quote me on that. Votes: 0

Rand Paul comes off like an academic stiff who wants to give us a lecture on American civics. Votes: 0

My academic identity is that of a folklorist, and for many years I have taught only folklore courses. Votes: 0

One of the best indicators of student achievement is the academic success of the mother in the home. Votes: 0

As an academic, this was not the lifestyle I had planned for myself. Now I see myself everywhere. Votes: 0

I came from an anxious, overly intense East Coast academic family. That was the way of our tribe. Votes: 0

If you let social activities take precedence over your academic activities, then you will soon lose your basketball activities. Votes: 0

Some of the roots of role-playing games (RPGs) are grounded in clinical and academic role assumption and role-playing exercises. Votes: 0

All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification. Votes: 0

I was born to a Nigerian dad and a Kenyan mom, and coming to the States was really academic. Votes: 0

Of all the American educational system's problems, none is more severe than the academic year beginning before Labor Day. Votes: 0

I am very interested in people trying to write because I don't have a big academic background at all. Votes: 0

If you're going to equalize the academic playing field, you've got to get the kids in early childhood programs. Votes: 0

A genius is someone who takes a complex thing and makes it look simple. An academic does the opposite. Votes: 0

First fulfill your academic obligations and then you will have the right to call yourself a leader of the left. Votes: 0

US academic institutions are being bought via funding by biotechnology firms which exert a vice-like grip on the US government. Votes: 0

Don't ask the barber whether you need a haircut, and don't ask an academic if what he does is relevant. Votes: 0

The academic mind reflects infinity, and is full of light by the simple process of being shallow and standing still. Votes: 0

I think poets should work in the non-literary, non-academic world, get to know more than a workshop or a university. Votes: 0

In Britain the power of authority was weakened. There was much more individual freedom and there was great academic freedom. Votes: 0

I don't consider myself attractive. I'm an academic, and in academia, people will write you off if you look younger. Votes: 0

Printing money creates inflation, which weakens an economy. Unfortunately, this kind of common-sense thinking never seems to penetrate academic circles. Votes: 0

The academic community has in it the biggest concentration of alarmists, cranks and extremists this side of the giggle house. Votes: 0

The armoury of having any academic education does not necessarily set you up for being a good or better actor. Votes: 0

I had no intention of becoming an academic. How could a person who was having trouble reading become an academic? Votes: 0

I'm a vague, conjunctured personality, more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles. Votes: 0

I don't approach my writing or my work from an academic or analytical point of view. I do it for myself. Votes: 0

To be a writer you have to write -- and no academic degree is going to do the writing for you. Votes: 0

You could mention my name in any hallway in any academic institution and you would have people foaming at the mouth. Votes: 0

We are selling ourselves very short by funneling our energies into what the traditional perception is of academic and monetary success. Votes: 0

In academic life you seek to state absolute truths; in politics you seek to accommodate truth to the facts around you. Votes: 0

It's not proper for a professor to go before a class and promote one party or another. That's not academic scholarship. Votes: 0

Life without music is unthinkable. Life without music is academic. That is why my contact with music is a total embrace. Votes: 0

In my spiritual and academic journeys, I have learned that it is imperative for Christians to pursue truth at all costs. Votes: 0

It is my hope that the pagan media and academic establishment will implode on the force of its own corruption and stagnation. Votes: 0

I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years. Votes: 0

My perspective on the academic world is very favorable. I did certain kinds of things that I could never have done otherwise. Votes: 0

Nietzsche's ideas and plans: for example, the idea of giving up the whole wretched academic world to form a secular monastic community. Votes: 0

In academic circles, especially, I was criticized for lacking morals, values, and ethics. I'm feeding that angry feminist reading of my work. Votes: 0

We must never forget our teachers and our lecturers. In their individual capacities have contributed to our academic, professional and personal development. Votes: 0

In school, I guess I was a difficult, know-it-all type of student... I was always complaining that music education was too academic. Votes: 0

I was an academic and I lost my assignment at Harvard. Meanwhile, [David Petraeus] gets invited to Harvard to become a fellow. Votes: 0

You know what happiness is: 'Having a little more money than your colleagues.' And that's not so tough in academic life. Votes: 0

As an academic, what do you have? You have the quality of your work and the integrity with which you do it. Votes: 0

I didn't want to be in a situation where I was broader than the boys, which I was, in the academic world. Votes: 0

The realization that you can't predict the future -- and mold it -- could only come as a shock to an academic. Votes: 0

I did a lot of my writing as though I was an academic, doing some piece of research as perfectly as possible. Votes: 0

I wanted to get everything right. I was super nerdy and academic. I got so much satisfaction out of getting good grades. Votes: 0

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. When visiting the U.S. from Germany for a winter academic stay. Votes: 0

There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic. Votes: 0

I've been doing the academic side of music and the rock side of music in conjunction, basically, since I was in fourth grade. Votes: 0

We are more than role models for our students; we are leaders and teachers of both an academic curriculum and a social curriculum. Votes: 0

Somehow, you should really love your academic institutions. Not because of how it is, but for what it can help you to become. Votes: 0

There is much more to schools than buildings. There are academic activities, how it reaches the community and its proximity to other programs. Votes: 0

I was in three academic clubs, a huge book worm and the teacher's pet. I was kind of an easy target for bullies. Votes: 0

In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine. Votes: 0

I have found that meditation has helped me with my academic career and has given me insights into musical composition and software design. Votes: 0

I knew I'd always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, 'Well, I'd rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate one'. Votes: 0

I want to ask heterosexual academic feminists to do some hard analytical and reflective work. To begin, I want to say to them: Votes: 0

What on earth have a man's name, degree, academic position, and of all things, opinions, to do with whether a thing is true? Votes: 0

I hate academic mysteries. As soon as I come across the word 'don' and it's not someone's first name, I close the book. Votes: 0

Honestly, I didn't have the patience for biology or history in an academic sense, but I always liked the kind of big questions. Votes: 0

I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically. Votes: 0

The more you learn, the less you fear. "Learn" not in the sense of academic study, but in the practical understanding of life. Votes: 0

I knew Id always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, Well, Id rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate one. Votes: 0

I did study Shakespeare, that was sort of my thing; I got a Literature A-level, which is my only claim to academic fame. Votes: 0

Even academic elites are drawn to the figure of the murderer, which has long been a focus of attention for psychiatrists, sociologists, and criminologists. Votes: 0

If you need to invoke your academic pedigree or job title for people to believe what you say, then you need a better argument. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

In both children and adults, there can be a hard-to-deny link between a robust sense of hope and either work productivity or academic achievement. Votes: 0

It is still an act of academic heresy to regard Egypt as the cradle of civilization and originator of Jewish and Christian religious traditions. Votes: 0

(The discovery of penicillin) was a triumph of accident, a fortunate occurrence which happened while I was working on a purely academic bacteriological problem. Votes: 0

Learning through the arts reinforces critical academic skills in reading, language arts and math and provides students with the skills to creatively solve problems. Votes: 0

Quality afterschool programs provide safe, engaging and fun learning experiences to help children and youth develop their social, emotional, physical, cultural and academic skills. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We must never forget our teachers, our lecturers and our mentors. In their individual capacities have contributed to our academic, professional and personal development. Votes: 0

That I was not suited to commerce or academic study in no way proves that I should also be unfit to be a painter. Votes: 0

No academic ever expects to be taken seriously by more than three other people, because really, we write for three people in our field. Votes: 0

Sometimes I wonder what would have happened if I hadn't become an actor. If perhaps I'd stayed on at university and become an academic. Votes: 0

I'm not an academic, but I'm someone who has a great passion for science and wants to convey the idea that science is for everyone. Votes: 0

I'd somehow always thought of the classics of literature as something apart from me, something to do with academic life and not something you enjoyed. Votes: 0

Not many venture firms have people whose job is to read academic research - on startups, ventures, and entrepreneurs - and gather knowledge from that. Votes: 0

[In my writing] I know that I have made a caricature out of [others' academic] theories [but] I think that caricatures are frequently good portraits. Votes: 0

Children who open their lunchboxes and find mothers' handwritten notes telling them how amazingly bright they are tend to falter when they encounter academic difficulties. Votes: 0

Some people don't need parental commitment, they will still come out great, but for others, parents can be critical in providing moral and academic guidance. Votes: 0

In research, I wanted to establish the medicinal chemistry/bioassay conjugation as an academic pursuit, as exciting to the imagination as astrophysics or molecular biology. Votes: 0

There's nothing more distasteful than an academic having to, like, trot out his credentials. You really come off as a jerk when you do that. Votes: 0

I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went to university and studied English. Votes: 0

States are free to modify the Common Core State Standards or adopt their own individual standards, because academic standards are the prerogative of the states. Votes: 0

Only the free-wheeling artist-explorer, non-academic, scientist-philosopher, mechanic, economist-poet who has never waited for patron-starting and accrediting of his co-ordinate capabilities holds the prime initiative today. Votes: 0

Postmodernism is an academic theory, originating in academia with an academic elite, not in the world of women and men, where feminist theory is rooted. Votes: 0

Personally I discovered that you could go through the academy as a young scholar, come out, and almost immediately have an impact on the academic environment. Votes: 0

I am among the few who continue to draw after childhood is ended, continuing and perfecting childhood drawing - without the traditional interruption of academic training. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

No day passes without a Democratic politician, a left-wing commentator, or, if I may be excused a redundancy, a left-wing academic labeling Republicans and conservatives racist. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

After my stellar first grade academic achievements, I continued to perform well in the city primary schools - except for penmanship, which was not my forte. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Then you have people coming up like Malcolm Bradbury, a relatively young writer who deals with the academic scene and deals with it, I think, brilliantly. Votes: 0

I come out of an academic background, and I'm aware that what I'm doing is simultaneously research and fiction. I want to meet both those obligations. Votes: 0

Just so people know, the Silverlake Conservatory of Music is not at all about celebrity or fame or being a star. It's an academic music school. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

My mother wanted me to be a teacher. She had this vision of me walking across the quadrangle in an Oxford college wearing my academic gown. Votes: 0

I like the way Microsoft participates in other-than-mainstream activities, such as academic research, charities, scholarships and connecting the disconnected by providing technology support to underserved people. Votes: 0

To some of us, hunger was more academic than real, but we must try to develop the ability to feel the urgency of such a situation. Votes: 0

I think the tradition of well-written history hasn't been squashed out of the academic world as much in Britain as it has in the United States. Votes: 0

My lab and academic work fill my day from about 9 am to 7 p.m. Then I zoom out the lens to work on my other writing. Votes: 0

Once I engage in something, I really engage in it, and I love the process of reading and researching because I come from an academic background. Votes: 0

It was the academic community who wired up their universities so it was put together by smart, well-meaning people who thought it was a good idea. Votes: 0

The more profound problem, however, is the degree to which many academic intellectuals, especially in the humanities, have lost their ability to distinguish the 'state' from 'society'. Votes: 0

The PhD system is the real root of the evil of academic snobbery. People who have PhDs consider themselves a priesthood, and inventors generally don't have PhDs. Votes: 0

I like the idea of the museum world and the university-academic situation where artists talk to each other or where artists or art students study with artists. Votes: 0

Economic science concerns itself primarily with theoretical and empirical generalizations about the behavior of individuals, institutions, markets, and national economies. Most academic research falls in this category. Votes: 0

When I was confronted with official tuition, the academic thing, I could see no relationship whatever between that and the music I'd been writing since I was 11. Votes: 0

Education never really interested me, to be fair. I mean, education does interest me, but academic school study is a different thing. I can't quite grasp that. Votes: 0

patriarchal academic hierarchies in science and technology are now overspecialized and abstract, perhaps because they have systematically excluded women, as well as minorities, with challenging, alternative views. Votes: 0

I was a huge bookworm, total nerd, so I was a victim in middle school. I was in three academic clubs, so I was an easy target. Votes: 0

I saw leaving college as an opportunity to do something different with my life. I always thought that becoming an academic was going to be my path. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Now, practically all reviewers have academic aspirations. The people from the universities are used to a captive audience, but the literary journalist has to please his audience. Votes: 0

The sad thing about Trump is that everybody is secretly really relieved he got elected, of the people I know - the professional left and academic left. Votes: 0

My parents were neither wealthy nor academic, but we lived comfortably and they were always extremely supportive of my academic efforts and aspirations, both at school and university. Votes: 0

My mother never asked me whether I wanted to go to college, but told me I was going - to the University of Maryland on an academic scholarship. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Providing post-secondary and academic education to only 10 to 30 per cent of our prison population can translate to more than $60 billion a year added to state and national coffers. Votes: 0

I'd like to be an academic, a philosophy lecturer if possible. I'd do a Masters in Ancient Hebrew maybe, and a Ph.D. hopefully, if I get in. Votes: 0

Harner has impeccable credentials, both as an academic and as a practicing shaman. Without doubt (since the recent death of Mircea Eliade) the world's leading authority on shamanism. Votes: 0

I love mystery novels... I love seeing the dramas played out in academic departments, particularly English departments. I started reading these when I was going up for tenure. Votes: 0

To the extent that tenure supports academic freedom, I support tenure. I want no person or system to have any power, real or apparent, to chill academic freedom. Votes: 0

Innovation is a twofold threat to academic mediocrities: it endangers their oracular authority, and it evokes the deeper fear that their whole, laboriously constructed intellectual edifice might collapse. Votes: 0

I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes. Votes: 0

To the extent that tenure supports academic freedom, I support tenure. I want no person or system to have any power, real or apparent, to chill academic freedom. Votes: 0

In actual fact, I have been an academic - a college and university teacher and scholar - for much of the last 45 years, and only rarely a writer. Votes: 0

There should be more interaction and more confidence building between our various academic institutions just like how there needs to be a confidence building between industry and academics. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Unless we learn from history, we are destined to repeat it. This is no longer merely an academic exercise, but may contain our worlds fate and our destiny. Votes: 0

Traditional academic science describes human beings as highly developed animals and biological thinking machines. We appear to be Newtonian objects made of atoms, molecules, cells, tissues, and organs. Votes: 0

In a way, it has been an advantage for me to be a woman because there is always some academic committee that needs you to fill a quota! Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I trained in medicine after pursuing an academic career in the humanities, mainly because of my interest in the relationship between mind and body, and between mind and brain. Votes: 0

The Wellcome Foundation offered me the chance to establish a small academic research unit, modestly funded, but with total independence. The real opportunity, however, came from King's College, London. Votes: 0

I've often heard academics disparage non-academic writing in terms that suggest it could be a negative in the tenure process, irrespective of the quality of academic work under review. Votes: 0

Nothing ought to be said or done which could create the impression that unbiased reconsideration of the most elementary premises of philosophy is a merely academic or historical affair. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It's an academic book, and it's discussed under academic criteria. German historians cultivate so-called objectivity. They persuade themselves that they can switch off the subjective and therefore the unsettling. Votes: 0

I think feminist pedagogy should not simply expose students to a particularized academic scholarship but that it should also envision the possibility of activism and struggle outside the academy. Votes: 0

Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other 'studies' was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these 'studies' are about propaganda rather than serious education. Votes: 0

The cards are stacked (quite properly, I imagine) against all professional aesthetes, and no doubt we all deserve the dark, wordy, academic deaths we all sooner or later die. Votes: 0

I was so grateful to be independent of the academic establishment. I thought, how awful it would be to have my future hinge on such people and such decisions. Votes: 0

We can get too easily bogged down in the academic part of homeschooling, a relatively minor part of the whole, which is to raise competent, caring, literate, happy people. Votes: 0

There is no question we need higher academic standards and at the local level the rigor of the Common Core state standards must be the new minimum in classrooms. Votes: 0

I was quite academic, quite geeky when I was a kid. I was more interested in going to school than I was in becoming a film star or something. Votes: 0

If I was writing about an academic or a more difficult person, I would use the Latinate vocabulary more, but I do think Anglo-saxon is the language of emotion. Votes: 0

I've always been a writer because I've always been a student. My mom's a retired professor, so I come from a very academic background. I love writing, you know? Votes: 0

There are two kinds of experts: academic experts and practical experts. One is not better than the other, but they are very different, and each offers very different value. Votes: 0

My mom and dad put my brother and sister through university and they were very keen for us to have an academic background just to give us a chance. Votes: 0

Schools serving disadvantaged students need more time to help these students catch up and gain the core academic skills they will need to succeed in our economy and society. Votes: 0

When I went from being an academic to being a member of the community of writers some of my former colleagues did look on me with a certain resentment. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

My dad wanted me to go down a more academic route. He is very much about sticking to the rule book and sticking to the blueprint of a successful career. Votes: 0

The ability to draw from life determines the artist's skill. This is why live drawing classes have always been at the top of the curriculum for properly structured academic workshops. Votes: 0

Not a moment passes these days without fresh rushes of academic lemmings off the cliffs they proclaim the political responsibilities of the critic, but eventually all this moralizing will subside. Votes: 0

We should also give students more flexibility in the courses they take in high school to prepare them for whatever their goals may be, without sacrificing our rigorous academic standards. Votes: 0

By that time I was hooked on a career in academic research instead of one in the pharmaceutical industry that I had originally considered in deciding to get a PhD. Votes: 0

Morris read through the letter. Was it a shade too fulsome? No, that was another law of academic life: it is impossible to be excessive in flattery of one's peers. Votes: 0

It's probably indicative that I was destined for an academic career that I'm 6-5 and I lost the slam-dunk championship to somebody 5-8. I was a lot better at math. Votes: 0

13.5 Mrs. Wolfe asks whether Mr. Iqbal expects her Susan to undertake compulsory headstands. 13.6 Mr. Iqbal infers that, considering Susan's academic performance and weight problems, a headstand regime might be desirable. Votes: 0

I want you to have all the academic freedom you want as long as you wind up saying the bible account (of creation) is true and all others are not. Votes: 0

I put that part of myself into both Brendan and Evelyn [from The Thorn and the Blossom] - as well as some of my own anxieties about the academic life! Votes: 0

New dreams are like new wines; they grow sweeter over time. With patience, you will be able to climb your spiritual, financial, academic, marital and social ladders in Jesus' name! Votes: 0

I decided that after returning to the US to pursue an academic career I would eventually study the life of Ho Chi Minh to find the secret of his success. Votes: 0

Sovereignty and the right to rule cannot be conferred on anyone no matter who ... as a result of an academic discussion. Sovereignty is acquired by force and power and violence. Votes: 0

Universities have failed in their function of the pursuit of academic excellence by having dumbed down classes and granting degrees to students who are just barely literate and computationally incompetent. Votes: 0

I came out of the Civil Rights Movement, and I had a different kind of focus than most people who have just the academic background as their primary training experience. Votes: 0

I believe that Harvard can have, and must have, a strong affirmative action program that reflects our commitment to equal opportunity while fully respecting the academic standards of the University. Votes: 0

When I turned 15, I left school having failed to make the minimum grade. With little direction I enlisted at the local culinary school. Here the academic demands were less rigorous. Votes: 0

Kitsch generates pseudonovelty with no new insight into reality, or else does not concern itself at all with the new and produces its effects with more or less academic eclecticism. Votes: 0

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy skips lightly over academic abstraction, pausing only to note that the term "future perfect" has been abandoned since it was discovered not to be. Votes: 0

The principle of academic freedom is designed to make sure that powers outside the university, including government and corporations, are not able to control the curriculum or intervene in extra-mural speech. Votes: 0

Obscurantism is the academic theorist's revenge on society for having consigned him or her to relative obscurity - a way of proclaiming one's superiority in the face of one's diminished influence. Votes: 0

Right after graduation, I married Samuel Fisher Babbitt, an academic administrator. I spent the next ten years in Connecticut, Tennessee, and Washington, D.C., raising our children, Christopher, Tom, and Lucy. Votes: 0

My intellectual achievement was retarded when I went to high school. I sort of sank into a black hole because I had to go to the high-achieving, academic public high school. Votes: 0

In the summer of 1965 I was invited to join Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio and returned to academic life as professor with the added responsibility of becoming also Department Chairman. Votes: 0

(F)or 50 years, the well-meaning leftist agenda has been able to do to blacks what Jim Crow and harsh discrimination could never have done: family breakdown, illegitimacy and low academic achievement. Votes: 0

I am fun. I do have a good time. I have a good heart. I'm not all jokes. I'm a pretty serious person sometimes. I'm very very hardworking. I'm very academic. Votes: 0

There is an increasing gap between academic research and business application. Sometimes the incentives for success in the academic world are not consistent with what it takes to run a company. Votes: 0

Can a geology teacher blithely tell his students that the earth is flat, or a European history professor that the Holocaust didn't happen? That's not academic freedom, but dereliction of duty. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

My style is neither casual nor academic, it's somewhere in between. For me, that's the best way to be succinct and informative but still (I hope) at least a bit entertaining. Votes: 0

It is not that the university as such is against spiritual formation. It is just that often the university does not know how to integrate spiritual formation within its academic disciplines. Votes: 0

Although any help is genuinely welcomed, it is more important to be a supportive, proactive parent than it is to be a supportive parent after academic failure and negative behaviors occur. Votes: 0

Many people have serious academic degrees but cannot find a job, and sadly their degrees are so limited that they cannot even think about how to create a job for themselves. Votes: 0

I'm not an academic; I'm just a bookish Joe who gets passionate about certain writers and suddenly wants to read everything they've ever written and find out why they wrote it. Votes: 0

The academic mind, as we know, is sometimes capable of assuming an aggressive attitude. The official mind, on the contrary, is and has to be, expert in the art of self-defence. Votes: 0

I had to do the academic writing. At a top research university, publishing of a certain kind is very important. So your friend is right. You can't do three things well. Votes: 0

Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom. Votes: 0

I brought together experts from health care, business, academic institutions, and the community to develop a comprehensive blueprint for eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in health care in the City of Boston. Votes: 0

Though knowledge itself increasingly ignores boundaries between fields, professors are apt to organize their pedagogy around the methods and history of their academic subculture rather than some coherent topic in the world. Votes: 0

If you look at academic studies, you can see that stock prices are most closely correlated with cash flow. It's such a straightforward number. Cash flow is what will drive shareholder returns. Votes: 0

But the vast majority of books ever written are not accessible to anyone except the most tenacious researchers at premier academic libraries. Books written after 1923 quickly disappear into a literary black hole. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I don't come from a lot of money and wasn't going to get an academic scholarship, so the only way to afford an education was to allow the military to supplement it. Votes: 0

Intellectuals of the categories happen to enjoy unusual privilege, unique in history, I suppose. It's easy enough to find ugly illustrations of repression, malice, dishonesty, marginalization and exclusion in the academic world. Votes: 0

I just decided that I didn't want to be in the academic world, because it was [really] too easy for me at the top. But also it wasn't active enough for me. Votes: 0

Build your schools around concepts, not academic subjects: core concepts such as awareness, honesty, responsibility, freedom and diversity in oneness. Teach your children these things and you will have taught them grandly. Votes: 0

Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good talks. But being considered the best speaker in the computer science department is like being known as the tallest of the Seven Dwarfs. Votes: 0

Anyone can write an academic piece directed at other academics. To write something that delivers an argument and a gripping storyline to someone's granny or eight-year-old takes the highest quality of your powers. Votes: 0

It's been a horrifying academic secret for decades that the children who walk away with the highest formal honors, the valedictorians and National Merit Scholars, have a horrendous performance record in later life. Votes: 0

What passes for political realism may make for lively academic debates. But it often functions, ironically, as a tool of social control, rendering us passive with an analysis that overwhelms and paralyzes us. Votes: 0

What passes for political realism may make for lively academic debates. But it often functions, ironically, as a tool of social control, rendering us passive with an analysis that overwhelms and paralyzes us. Votes: 0

To be sure about nonsense he had to be able to classify it, assign it to a family tree of liberal nonsense, humanist-humanitarian nonsense, academic nonsense, Protestant nonsense, Freudian nonsense and so on. Votes: 0

Just as an individual's ability to delay gratification at a young age is a powerful predictor of future academic and professional achievement, discipline is also central to the long-run economic health of nations. Votes: 0

The obstacles facing academic economists are formidable, for tenure and professional advancement still depend to a large extent on a willingness to comply with and to work within the tenets of orthodox theory. Votes: 0

I'm extremely interested in the Russian formalists and have been for many years. I'm more drawn to their writing, which is expressive and literary, than to writing which is extremely academic or jargon-ridden. Votes: 0

The capacity to innovate - the ability to solve problems creatively or bring new possibilities to life - and skills like critical thinking, communication and collaboration are far more important than academic knowledge. Votes: 0

Normalization takes place not because there is Western-ideology that normalizes third-world texts in any special way (other than the usual play with exoticism) but because this academic seeks to domesticate everything, even Marx. Votes: 0

Doctoral training is devoted almost entirely to learning to do research, even though most Ph.Ds who enter academic life spend far more time teaching than they do conducting experiments or writing books. Votes: 0

There's been a 40-year effort on the far right to build up think tanks, academic programs, advocacy groups, to push a particular ideology. That's really where the impact is that people don't see. Votes: 0

I was so naive about writing, I went to the public library and checked out the only volume they had on the topic - an academic treatise about publishing from the WWII era. Votes: 0

Throughout the course of my life, I have been very fortunate to have had excellent teachers - not just in meditation, but in martial arts, music, scuba diving, and in my academic education. Votes: 0

Research shows that whether you are low-income or not, mindset is a bigger predictor of success than academic skills, and how students gain great academic skills and persevere in the face of challenges. Votes: 0

But one did not do feminist theory, as such, in those days, not only because male academic discourse did not recognize such a term, but especially because the womens movement did not either. Votes: 0

But one did not do feminist theory, as such, in those days, not only because male academic discourse did not recognize such a term, but especially because the women's movement did not either. Votes: 0

Throughout the course of my life, I have been very fortunate to have had excellent teachers - not just in meditation, but in martial arts, music, scuba diving, and in my academic education. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I don't have specific television ambitions in the sense that I remain fundamentally and academic, and so, my innermost ambitions are what's the next discovery I can make; that's in my direct center. Votes: 0

The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience. Votes: 0

I didn't have friends. No one talked to me. I used to go to the Wyndcroft School (nationally recognized for academic excellence) in Pottstown, and when I moved to Wyomissing, I didn't know anybody. Votes: 0

The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Votes: 0

I'm suspicious that what's behind the academic call for doing away with athletic scholarships is a nostalgia for the good old days, which leaves out everyone but white Anglo-Saxon Protestants, ... world's biggest cocktail party. Votes: 0

I had learned of Gertrude Stein's bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my future life as literary psychiatrist, globe-trotting tropical disease specialist, or academic internist. Votes: 0

I had learned of Gertrude Steins bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my future life as literary psychiatrist, globe-trotting tropical disease specialist, or academic internist. Votes: 0

I'm not pretending to be an academic, or to have this down to a science. It's strictly my taste. But there is a connection between everything I play and the sets I put together. Votes: 0

I was the kid who read a lot and who was academic, and who was more of an indoor person than an outdoor person. I would win the summer reading contest at the library. Votes: 0

In the mid-1960s, as hard to believe as it may be now, choosing to go into academic philosophy was not an imprudent career choice. There were lots of academic jobs in philosophy then. Votes: 0

I've sort of been an anthropologist of modern America, in a non-academic way. Whether it's Marines or Tupperware salesladies, high end audiophiles or bike couriers, I'm fascinated by the hallmarks of the American tribe. Votes: 0

I also believe that academic freedom should protect the right of a professor or student to advocate Marxism, socialism, communism, or any other minority viewpoint - no matter how distasteful to the majority, provided... Votes: 0

Going through these academic programs, your job really is to learn how to be a therapist. They're training you to sit in front of clients and it's a serious matter. You're holding people's psyches. Votes: 0

I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that weren't really relevant to my academic work, but were relevant to gardening. Votes: 0

The onslaught of new and complex information, the academic and thinktank cults of expertise, not to mention the impossibility of bohemia in the age of high rents, have conspired to assassinate the public intellectual. Votes: 0

Although I write screenplays, I don't think I'm a very good writer. I'm very interested in studying cultures and social issues, but as an academic I don't think I would have been too successful. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I am an academic," said Professor Mandalay, "and thus have no finely developed senses that would be comprehensible to anyone who has not ever needed to grade papers without actually reading the blessed things. Votes: 0

I've tried to make a book that's accessible to the ordinary, intelligent reader. Very often books that cover this kind of subject are written by academics, for academics. But I am not an academic. Votes: 0

Universities think people come up with great ideas by closing the door. The academic tenure process, where you have to publish to journals which are very narrow, stands in the way of great research. Votes: 0

Writing on the blog, you want to get attention and make strong claims. In academic work, that often doesn't pay, so sometimes it's a little bit difficult going back and forth to navigate these differences. Votes: 0

Bear in mind that we [ with Edward Herman] did not devise the terms "manufacture of consent" and "engineering of consent." We borrowed them from leading figures in the media, public relations industry, and academic scholarship. Votes: 0

Ward Churchill might be more valuable to the opponents of the academic left employed than unemployed. Above all, he can serve as a living window into the intellectual, moral, and political bankruptcy of the left. Votes: 0

After my health suffered due to the stress of running my second company, I had to switch careers. But I still didn't want to go back to the corporate world. So I became an academic. Votes: 0

My doodles and sketches are not the work of an academic engineer. They represent many years of design study in attempts to produce the best value for money in the field of small car design. Votes: 0

The acceptance of the facts of African-American history and the African-American historian as a legitimate part of the academic community did not come easily. Slavery ended and left its false images of black people intact. Votes: 0

There was little in my early life to indicate that an interest in biology would become the passion of my academic career. In fact, there was little to suggest I would have an academic career. Votes: 0

Things may move slow in the academic world, but I continue to move at a pace relative to the urgency of the moment, looking forward to the time when the academic world can catch up... Votes: 0

There's a lot of things to learn, starting with you'd better caution people just as the State Department cautioned people, especially those of Chinese descent, before they decide to engage in academic research in China. Votes: 0

I went to Catholic school throughout my whole academic life. In fact, my children - my husband and I and our children in my own family now have over 100 years of Catholic education among us. Votes: 0

There is this peculiar blind spot in the culture of academic medicine around whether withholding trial results is research misconduct. People who work in any industry can reinforce each others' ideas about what is okay. Votes: 0