“University departments wanted to hire sober, rational researchers and teachers. You were allowed revelatory, apocalyptic experiences only after you had tenure.” — Richard Tillotson Copy Share Image
Designs that have a whiff of complex impenetrability tends to suggest big, complicated ideas. Academic writing tends to work the same way,… — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
My career in academic research has not been involved with active management of securities. I've tried to understand risk-and-return relationships; also the… — Myron Scholes Copy Share Image
The academic community has in it the biggest concentration of alarmists, cranks and extremists this side of the giggle house. — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
I am an academic," said Professor Mandalay, "and thus have no finely developed senses that would be comprehensible to anyone who has… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic. — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
Children who open their lunchboxes and find mothers' handwritten notes telling them how amazingly bright they are tend to falter when they… — George Will Copy Share Image
After my health suffered due to the stress of running my second company, I had to switch careers. But I still didn't… — Vivek Wadhwa Copy Share Image
I wonder if I would have been less organic of a designer without my background. Maybe I would be more academic about… — Francisco Costa Copy Share Image
I've always been more of a nerdy, academic type. I loved 'Star Wars' growing up. I have three older brothers, so they… — Mara Wilson Copy Share Image
There are two ways of forming an opinion. One is the scientific method; the other, the scholastic. To the scientific mind, experimental… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
We have so few unaffiliated public intellectuals now - people who are not beholden to a think tank, corporate-owned media, or academic… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Insomniac is an impassioned work-an inspired amalgam of academic and first-hand research, memoir, analysis, and the kind of obsessive brooding we associate… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
A different set of incentives from rising in an economic establishment where the rewards system, again, the reinforcement, comes from being a… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
I gloomily came to the ironic conclusion that if you take a highly intelligent person and give them the best possible, elite… — Halton Arp Copy Share Image
I was hired for a really excellent academic job early in my life; I was twenty-five when I started at Princeton and… — Paul Lansky Copy Share Image
Feminism, in all fields, has yet to produce a single scholar of the intellectual rank of scores of these learned men [e.g.,… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification. — Bruce Jackson Copy Share Image
I knew I'd always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, 'Well, I'd rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
In academic life you seek to state absolute truths; in politics you seek to accommodate truth to the facts around you. — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
Human intelligence is richer and more dynamic than we have been led to believe by formal academic education. — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
An academic is what I would have been if I hadn't been successful as a comedian. I've never had a proper job. — David Baddiel Copy Share Image
In school, I guess I was a difficult, know-it-all type of student... I was always complaining that music education was too academic. — Bjork Copy Share Image
It's just seeing - at least the photography I care about. You either see or you don't see. The rest is academic.… — Elliott Erwitt Copy Share Image
Academics act like they are important, but when something is academic it is meaningless. People say, 'It's academic, now let's get work… — Evan Sayet Copy Share Image
Although I write screenplays, I don't think I'm a very good writer. I'm very interested in studying cultures and social issues, but… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
My lab and academic work fill my day from about 9 am to 7 p.m. Then I zoom out the lens to… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
Academic freedom is being lost by a great many people who dare to challenge Darwinism. That's a terrifying situation. That's contrary to… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
When I went to college, as much as my parents emphasized academic achievement, they emphasized marriage even more. They told me that… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
In the mid-1960s, as hard to believe as it may be now, choosing to go into academic philosophy was not an imprudent… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure,… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
My father, because he was an academic, he did not shy away from meeting with academics who focused on political science, sociology,… — Maya Wiley Copy Share Image
I read a lot growing up. It was kind of my comfort, you know; I loved it. I love story. I love… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
Then you have people coming up like Malcolm Bradbury, a relatively young writer who deals with the academic scene and deals with… — William Golding Copy Share Image
When I went from being an academic to being a member of the community of writers some of my former colleagues did… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I was in three academic clubs, a huge book worm and the teacher's pet. I was kind of an easy target for… — Nicole Anderson Copy Share Image
I won a really big fellowship to go straight on to get my Ph.D. And I went through agonies of indecision, and… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
That I was not suited to commerce or academic study in no way proves that I should also be unfit to be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You could mention my name in any hallway in any academic institution and you would have people foaming at the mouth. — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
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