Academic Quotes · Page 10

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

— Vinny Guadagnino

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

— Rebel Wilson

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

— Anatoly Chubais

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

— Mason Cooley

Mom was an academic, so the riches that she had to bestow were of the mind.

— Maya Soetoro-Ng

My family are quite academic, and I was set to study economics and politics at university.

— O. T. Fagbenle

To overcome the academic prose you have first to overcome the academic pose,

— C. Wright Mills

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

— Noah Centineo

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

— Tatiana Maslany

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

Schools serving disadvantaged students need more time to help these students catch up and gain the core academic skills they will need…

— Chris Gabrieli

What passes for political realism may make for lively academic debates. But it often functions, ironically, as a tool of social control,…

— Anonymous

If you look at academic studies, you can see that stock prices are most closely correlated with cash flow. It's such a…

— Jeff Bezos

Nothing ought to be said or done which could create the impression that unbiased reconsideration of the most elementary premises of philosophy…

— Leo Strauss

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 think for what success looks like for me, it is a world in which you can look at the achievement scores,…

— Michelle Rhee

I wasn't an academic looking in books for ideas. But I educated myself about historical work that was similar to mine, to…

— Michael Heizer

Coaches have got to be given rank within the university so that you can't fire a coach unless you go through an…

— Joe Paterno

“What is the difference between my view and the classical Christian perspective? I am convinced that there are not multiple comings and…

— Eli Of Kittim

Feminism as a movement for political and social equity is important, but feminism as an academic clique committed to eccentric doctrines about…

— Steven Pinker

As you consider whether to move a child into formal academic training, remember that we want our children to do more than…

— Lilian Katz

I live in New York, and Clara lives in Recife. The character is Brazilian, and as I read the script, I felt…

— Sonia Braga

The most important change, and it's been going on for at least three decades, is the increasing "professionalization," if that's a word,…

— Walter Kiechel

I began to read [Bible] as a critic, an in-house critic. So I got to a place where when I got to…

— John Shelby Spong

I was a lousy academic. I spent most of my time in the cafeteria. But I met fantastic people from all kinds…

— Aleksandra Mir

Yes, I spent two long years, traveling all over the United States, all over Europe, interviewing many, many, many people who had…

— Ben Stein

In college, in the early 1950s, I began to learn a little about how science works, the secrets of its great success,…

— Carl Sagan

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

— Naveen Andrews

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

— John Ortberg

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

— Michael Fassbender

Also, I liked John Cage's music. I liked it for its craziness, the use of silence, the boldness-anything to get me away…

— Kenneth Koch

“Why did you have to prove a thing like that, Miss Emily? Did someone think we didn’t have souls?” (Ch.22 p.201)”

— Kazuo Ishiguro

Everyone who makes films has to be an athlete to a certain degree because cinema does not come from abstract academic thinking;…

— Werner Herzog

It took me a couple of years after I got out of Berkeley before I dared to start writing. That academic mind-set…

— Joan Didion

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

— Ram Dass