Academic Quotes

“Fairness is a leadership superpower. ”

— Hanna Hasl-Kelchner

Academic writing is such a different way of writing.

— Tara Westover

I'm quite sharp but not particularly academic.

— Tim Pigott-Smith

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

— Mary Beard

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

— Daniel J. Bernstein

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

— Theo Paphitis

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

— Gad Saad

Academic knowledge alone does not make a man.

— Anonymous

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

— Loretta Young

I wasn't sporty or academic, so to avoid getting picked on I'd play the fool.

— Lee Evans

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

— Dan Farmer

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

— Peter Bergen

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

— Lester Bowie

I ended up being a businessman unwittingly. I wanted to be an academic; I wanted to be like Einstein.

— Mo Ibrahim

I got through at Ignatius. I did OK, not great in any of my academic endeavors.

— William M. Daley

“My priority is not about grades. I seek yearn for knowledge, skills and wisdom.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

The logic of war seems to be if the belligerent can fight, he will fight. That leaders will not surrender until surrender…

— Thomas Powers

The aim of academic trade theory is to tell students, "Look at the model, not at how nations actually develop." So of…

— Michael Hudson

My mother never asked me whether I wanted to go to college, but told me I was going - to the University…

— Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

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

— Tatiana Maslany

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

— Michael Crichton

I had to do the academic writing. At a top research university, publishing of a certain kind is very important. So your…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

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

— Hugh Nibley

I think the tradition of well-written history hasn't been squashed out of the academic world as much in Britain as it has…

— Adam Hochschild

There's nobody in the world that wouldn't change places with the Americans. The economy is phenomenally large, the entrepreneurial class is very…

— Tom Peters

Year after year after year, people write books about managing innovation or about leadership, for example, without ever going through the pain…

— Clayton Christensen

I think in general, it's just an interesting age to be at, after college. You spend so much of your life, being…

— Chris Baio

When I began, poetry was very academic. You published little pamphlets from fancy presses. It was rather... chaste. There wasn't much public…

— John Fuller

I decided to become a teacher because I thought it would be a great career where I could wear different hats. You're…

— Erik Weihenmayer

I think that we already have a really good system in town, but I have a vision that it could be even…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I'm in a profession with a dismal success rate, in an academic field with a dismal hiring rate. And I don't write,…

— Davis Schneiderman

A child blind from birth doesn't even know he's blind until someone tells him. Even then he has only the most academic…

— Stephen King

I've been acting since I was ten years old. I had two lines in Snow White and the Seven Dwarves at the…

— Kristin Davis

Under the discipline of unity, knowledge and morality come together. No longer can we have that paltry 'objective' knowledge so prized by…

— Wendell Berry

I read a lot by female psychoanalyst Lou Andreas-Salomé, who wrote prominent biographies of Nietzsche, Rilke, and Freud because she studied with…

— Laura Marling

What initially attracted me to The Seventh Seal was that it had values and characteristics which I was familiar with in other…

— Peter Greenaway

There was no real strategic decision about editorial tone. It was kind of a write whatever you want to write, and we'll…

— Jessica Valenti

“His name was Ed. His nickname was Scrambled Ed. On leaving school he had taken a year out to decide what he…

— Matt Padwick

I read reviews of critics I respect and feel I can learn something from. Right now there are a lot of bottom-feeder…

— Alexander Payne

The clerical work is par for the course. "Keep on file in numerical order" means throw in wastebasket. You'll soon learn the…

— Bel Kaufman