I tried being a mechanic and I tried catering, but I realized I had even less aptitude for semi-skilled labour than for… — Toby Young Copy Share Image
I'd come into town from the bush - after 28 years of field work in natural systems - and become an academic.… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
By that time I was hooked on a career in academic research instead of one in the pharmaceutical industry that I had… — Paul Berg Copy Share Image
I come out of an academic background, and I'm aware that what I'm doing is simultaneously research and fiction. I want to… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
Morris read through the letter. Was it a shade too fulsome? No, that was another law of academic life: it is impossible… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
“Too many live with the false promise that their faith will deliver them from doubt and conveniently supply all the answers to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The academic mind reflects infinity, and is full of light by the simple process of being shallow and standing still. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The arts are statistically proven to increase independent thinking, creativity, discipline, balance, and academic improvement in children. — Mya Copy Share Image
Education is about inviting every single person who enters a school to realize his or her relatively boundless potential in all areas… — William Watson Purkey Copy Share Image
I'm not one of the people who has a kind of scholarly hat and writes in a certain way for an academic… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
It's taken my entire life to negotiate how to identify, and I've done a lot of research and a lot of studying,… — Rachel Dolezal Copy Share Image
There is a certain category of fool-the overeducated, the academic, the journalist, the newspaper reader, the mechanistic scientist, the pseudo-empiricist, those endowed… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
And if you look at all this academic work in the conferences and so on there's a constant theme that terrorism is… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Although I went to college as a youth, I never considered it necessary to steep oneself in academic learning, in order to… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful marriage this… — Donald Johanson Copy Share Image
It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
I definitely don't feel like I learnt anything, uh, academic. I mean, that's partly my fault. I'm not a sponge for that. — Jamie Demetriou Copy Share Image
It does not make sense. It cannot exist. It's impossible, and if it isn't impossible, it's irrelevant, and if it isn't either… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Many people have serious academic degrees but cannot find a job, and sadly their degrees are so limited that they cannot even… — Haki R. Madhubuti Copy Share Image
Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
If I was writing about an academic or a more difficult person, I would use the Latinate vocabulary more, but I do… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
I no longer have the terrible nightmares that I used to have. Mao had just died in 1976, and China began to… — Jung Chang Copy Share Image
When I was confronted with official tuition, the academic thing, I could see no relationship whatever between that and the music I'd… — Harrison Birtwistle Copy Share Image
My mom and dad put my brother and sister through university and they were very keen for us to have an academic… — Rob James-Collier Copy Share Image
There's a ton of academic literature that shows people are much more critical of female leaders than they are of male leaders.… — Peter Beinart Copy Share Image
Friedmans influence reaches far beyond the academic community and the world of economics. Rather than lock himself in an ivory tower, he… — William E. Simon Copy Share Image
To the extent that tenure supports academic freedom, I support tenure. I want no person or system to have any power, real… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Kitsch generates pseudonovelty with no new insight into reality, or else does not concern itself at all with the new and produces… — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
If you're going to equalize the academic playing field, you've got to get the kids in early childhood programs. — Paul Vallas Copy Share Image
I could have gone down a more academic route if I wanted to but I just didn't. It's not for everyone and… — Declan McKenna Copy Share Image
Accepting money from the federal government to conduct research places academic inquiry in the service of national interests. — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
This is a large part of the academic profession: to make up complex, subtle arguments that are childishly ridiculous but are enveloped… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In my spiritual and academic journeys, I have learned that it is imperative for Christians to pursue truth at all costs. — Daniel B. Wallace Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of experts: academic experts and practical experts. One is not better than the other, but they are very… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
I loathed school. I don't have an academic mind, and besides I was so bored by my teachers! How teachers can take… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
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… — Kerry Washington Copy Share Image
We think of feminism as an academic subject, but it's not. If you think feminism is academic, you think there's a right… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
“There are times when wisdom cannot be found in the chambers of parliament or the halls of academia but at the unpretentious… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Academic sociologists have been trained to conceive of their discipline - sociology - as the scientific study of society, and to remit… — Richard Wall Copy Share Image
