I was interested in implements of mass destruction - from an academic point of view. Votes: 3
Dan FarmerAcademic staff rather enjoy coming to conclusions, but they don't like coming to decisions at all. Votes: 3
Noel Annan, Baron AnnanThe academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all. Votes: 3
Gavin BryarsThe information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all. Votes: 1
Bill NyeIn recent times, Surrealist painters have used descriptive illusionistic academic methods. Votes: 0
Hans ArpAcademia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background. Votes: 0
Paul GiamattiPerceived self-inefficacy predicts avoidance of academic activities whereas anxiety does not Votes: 0
Albert BanduraNothing infuriates an academic more than a talented and successful colleague. Votes: 0
William McKeenI instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time. Votes: 0
Peter StraubSelf-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent. Votes: 0
Charles DuhiggNumerous are the academic professors, but rare are wise and noble teachers. Votes: 0
Albert EinsteinTo create something new, knowledge is essentially required, but not academic degree. Votes: 0
Rajib Lochan DhibarJazz is neither specific repertoire, nor academic exercise... but a way of life. Votes: 0
Lester BowieLove of learning led to monasteries, which became the cradle of academic guilds. Votes: 0
John OrtbergTo overcome the academic prose you have first to overcome the academic pose, Votes: 0
C. Wright MillsMine is studying script and being very academic and trying to be important. Votes: 0
Christoph WaltzFree will, determinism, meaning, existence, etc. are academic problems, not problems in life. Votes: 0
Marty RubinSome of my academic friends think I've fallen from a very special grace. Votes: 0
A. Bartlett GiamattiSome of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace. Votes: 0
A. Bartlett GiamattiMost academic economists know nothing of economy. In fact, they know little of anything. Votes: 0
Edward AbbeyAnd in most highly academic environments in the United States, no one fails anything. Votes: 0
Paul ToughI wasn't an academic. I hated maths and science at school. I couldn't concentrate. Votes: 0
Michelle DockeryI say I'm an academic: a professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins. And I write. Votes: 0
Kay Redfield JamisonThere's some pretty good academic research that suggest that what Americans don't like is losing. Votes: 0
Peter BergenSociologists are those academic accountants who think that truth can be shaken from an abacus. Votes: 0
Peter S. PrescottI am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling. Votes: 0
Malcolm GladwellI want parents to teach that academic intelligence is essential, but so is financial intelligence. Votes: 0
Robert KiyosakiI haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written. Votes: 0
Manuel PuigIf you think your child's academic studies are more important than the arts, think again. Votes: 0
PlatoI don't have the notion that everybody has to write in some single academic style Votes: 0
Clifford GeertzI didn't have a normal academic career. I never studied cinema. I learned from life. Votes: 0
Alejandro Gonzalez InarrituI became an academic so that I could share my knowledge and experience with students. Votes: 0
Vivek WadhwaSociological prose is generally written without images in an exact form for an academic audience. Votes: 0
Robert BlyMIT is governed by a second, even higher rule: the inalienable right of academic freedom. Votes: 0
Nicholas NegroponteI'm an academic. I teach at the university, and that's where I will go back to. Votes: 0
Mahmoud AhmadinejadI had to make a choice - recede into the academic world, or wade into politics. Votes: 0
Elizabeth WarrenIf I had been a member of the academic establishment, I could have done other experiments. Votes: 0
Albert EllisI've always been more inclined to go out to work than carry on with academic studies. Votes: 0
Michael FassbenderThe resources of a university, of a college, should not be wasted in merely academic pursuits. Votes: 0
Howard ZinnI am joining the government not from the academic position but from St. Petersburg city council. Votes: 0
Anatoly ChubaisA literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar. Votes: 0
Carolyn HeilbrunWhat is today a matter of academic speculation begins tomorrow to move armies and pull down empires. Votes: 0
John Gresham MachenThose of us forged in the crucibles of difference know that survival is not an academic skill. Votes: 0
Audre LordeIn academic life, false ideas are merely false, and useless ones can be fun to play with. Votes: 0
Michael IgnatieffI had this habit of an academic of answering the question. I should have fobbed it off. Votes: 0
John HewsonNobody wants to be a lawyer - it's hard work. But it was kind of my academic route. Votes: 0
Vinny GuadagninoSome people stay in the academic world just to avoid becoming self-aware. You can quote me on that. Votes: 0
Michael McKeanRand Paul comes off like an academic stiff who wants to give us a lecture on American civics. Votes: 0
Mark McKinnonOne of the best indicators of student achievement is the academic success of the mother in the home. Votes: 0
Tony DanzaAs an academic, this was not the lifestyle I had planned for myself. Now I see myself everywhere. Votes: 0
Ahmet DavutogluI came from an anxious, overly intense East Coast academic family. That was the way of our tribe. Votes: 0
Lev GrossmanI was born to a Nigerian dad and a Kenyan mom, and coming to the States was really academic. Votes: 0
Dayo OkeniyiTo be a writer you have to write -- and no academic degree is going to do the writing for you. Votes: 0
Michelle RichmondIBM isn't investing billions of dollars every year into research and development - and winning more patents than our top 10 competitors combined for more than a decade - as an academic exercise. But research is now being driven much more by what people need rather than just by what is possible. Votes: 1 Samuel J. Palmisano
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: 4 Gavin Newsom
I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling. Votes: 4 Malcolm Gladwell