If you need to invoke your academic pedigree or job title for people to believe what you say, then you need a… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
When a profession is protected by academic freedom and tenure, it tends to turn inward. To a large extent that's good. — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
I don't have specific television ambitions in the sense that I remain fundamentally and academic, and so, my innermost ambitions are what's… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I don't know if 1300 players could really participate in the selection of a commissioner, and I've never given it a great… — Pete Rozelle Copy Share Image
A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible 'lifestyles' turns universities into academic… — George Will Copy Share Image
It's too much to expect in an academic setting that we should all agree, but it is not too much to expect… — John Howard Copy Share Image
I wasn't a very academic kid, and music was the way for all that feeling and angst and sex and love and… — Dave Davies Copy Share Image
My knowledge of science came from being with Carl, not from formal academic training. Carl gave me a thrilling tutorial in science… — Ann Druyan Copy Share Image
During the latency years, American children need experiences that promote academic talents, a sense of responsibility, and most important, a belief that… — Jerome Kagan Copy Share Image
As an academic I feel I should intellectualize and theoretically analyze when all I really want to do is let the work… — Barbara Degenevieve Copy Share Image
I've always loved doing research. I remember doing a research project on the Babylonian numeral system in the eighth grade and thinking,… — Emily Oster Copy Share Image
Homicide is the major leagues, the center ring, the show. It always has been ... It goes beyond academic degrees, specialized training… — David Simon Copy Share Image
The world has today 546 nuclear plants generating electricity. Their experience is being continuously researched, and feedback should be provided to all.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The only way that we can prove the relevance of Fanon in a certain way outside of some academic circles is to… — Nigel Gibson Copy Share Image
I had to run away from home in order to be a musician. Because I came from a family of... my father… — Hugh Masekela Copy Share Image
Bear in mind that we [ with Edward Herman] did not devise the terms "manufacture of consent" and "engineering of consent." We… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
[M]an has been accustomed, ever since he was a boy, to having a dozen incompatible philosophies dancing about together inside his head.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Something else an academic education will do for you. If you go along with it any considerable distance, it will begin to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was not one of those people who wanted to be a comedian when I was growing up. I liked comedy, but… — Aisha Tyler Copy Share Image
The more passive one's life in the field, the greater the need to reverse the situation when one returns home, which is… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
Educators, long disturbed by schoolchildren's lagging scores in math and reading, are realizing there is a different and more alarming deficiency: emotional… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
No one must say that they cannot be close to the poor because their own lifestyle demands more attention to other areas.… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Character grows in the soil of experience with the fertilization of example, the moisture of ambition, and the sunshine of satisfaction. Character… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
It's hard for me to say what would happen if I didn't go to art school. It wasn't that I learned any… — John Dyer Baizley Copy Share Image
I am fun. I do have a good time. I have a good heart. I'm not all jokes. I'm a pretty serious… — Heidi Montag Copy Share Image
The objective of education should be impressed on the children's minds. The academic education of today is shallow and useless because it… — Sai Baba Copy Share Image
The academic mind, as we know, is sometimes capable of assuming an aggressive attitude. The official mind, on the contrary, is and… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other 'studies' was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these 'studies'… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
I came out of the Civil Rights Movement, and I had a different kind of focus than most people who have just… — Bernice Johnson Reagon Copy Share Image
Knowledge without know-how is sterile. We use the word academic in a pejorative sense to identify this limitation. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My parents are wonderful, practical, sensible people, and the expectation was that I would study something academic. — Gemma Chan Copy Share Image
Part of me always assumed I would be an academic...I still do love academics and university settings, and have so much respect… — Sarah Wayne Callies Copy Share Image
I saw leaving college as an opportunity to do something different with my life. I always thought that becoming an academic was… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
I don't come from a lot of money and wasn't going to get an academic scholarship, so the only way to afford… — Jon Huertas Copy Share Image
The realization that you can't predict the future -- and mold it -- could only come as a shock to an academic. — David Harsanyi Copy Share Image
Harner has impeccable credentials, both as an academic and as a practicing shaman. Without doubt (since the recent death of Mircea Eliade)… — Nevill Drury Copy Share Image
Some people don't need parental commitment, they will still come out great, but for others, parents can be critical in providing moral… — Amy Chua Copy Share Image
“Make your education valuable. Apply what you learnt. Refuse to take the back seat and watch things happen. Join the change and… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I wanted to be an academic when I was 19 or 20. But, I've gone off that idea. The lifestyle is kind… — Jack Gleeson Copy Share Image