At school, I had academia shoved in my face, but it was just stunting my creative development. — Dawn O'Porter Copy Share Image
“In the midst of battle, you need something versatile to keep your focus” — Isaiah Hankel Copy Share Image
Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background. — Paul Giamatti Copy Share Image
From academia to the military to the world of finance - I have spent my entire life moving between different spaces. — Wes Moore Copy Share Image
“But the required survey of English literature troubled and disquieted him in a way nothing had ever done before.” — John Williams Copy Share Image
“Academe was one of the last strongholds of the professional time-waster.” — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
In Washington, it's dog eat dog. In academia, it's exactly the opposite. — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
In a sense, New Age gurus are akin to postmodernists within academia. They dispense meaningless drivel that masquerades as profound truths whilst… — Gad Saad Copy Share Image
Most areas of intellectual life have discovered the virtues of speculation, and have embraced them wildly. In academia, speculation is usually dignified… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Having spent years in academia - at Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, Oxford University and Harvard Law School - I encountered… — Kayleigh McEnany Copy Share Image
Academia does not provide many opportunities for immediate gratification. You work for two years on a project, it takes two more years… — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
The only creature less fashionable in academia than the stereotypical 'dead white male,' is the dead white male on horseback. — David Hackett Fischer Copy Share Image
I'm not qualified for anything. I've had lots of little jobs, like picking grapes and being a tax man. I can't imagine… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
It's very important that there should be cross-fertilisation between government and academia. Both parties can benefit from having a better understanding of… — Nicholas Stern Copy Share Image
Most architects work in studios largely divorced from academia, as if ideas, criticism and historical research were irrelevant. — David Chipperfield Copy Share Image
Most 20th century academic physicists, and academia as a whole, simply did not want to touch the subject of consciousness. We have… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
In academia, left-liberalism is so entrenched its advocates' debating skills have gone rusty. When you've been talking to yourself for decades and… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
It's my experience that people don't think of fiction writing as being as intellectually serious as other kinds of writing in academia… — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
Even if 80 percent of the population of a country are Christian believers, they will have almost no cultural influence if the… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“Shulman argues that work that is valued is work that is presented to colleagues. The failure to make this kind of wider… — Charles E. Glassick Copy Share Image
The fetish of the great university, of expensive colleges for young women, is too often simply a fetish. It is not based… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
“Needless to say, that meant that the Braekbills student body was quite the psychological menagerie. Carrying that much onboard cognitive processing power… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
I think if somebody is so set in their ways about what they feel about something - and you get this a… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
Despite the Internet 's origin in the late 1960s as a government sponsored means of communication between the Department of Defense, private… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
“Within a few moments he was immersed in his work. The evening before, he had caught up with the routine of his… — John Williams Copy Share Image
“Originated by the green leading-edge in academia, this aperspectival madness of “no truth” leapt out of the universities, and morphed into an… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
“The past gathered out of the darkness where it stayed, and the dead raised themselves to live before him; and the past… — John Williams Copy Share Image
“Firstly,” said Ponder, “Mr Pessimal wants to know what we do here.” “Do? We are the premier college of magic!” said Ridcully.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“When April with its sweet showers has pierced the drought of March to the root, and bathed every vein of earth with… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
“As is perhaps obvious, Morris Zapp had no great esteem for his fellow-labourers in the vineyards of literature. They seemed to him… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
“Most of us are pseudo-scholars...for we are a very large and quite a powerful class, eminent in Church and State, we control… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Only in academia did people talk such bullshit and expect to be taken seriously” — Josh Lanyon Copy Share Image
“Just as no monkey is as good-looking as the ugliest of humans, no academic is worthier than the worst of the creators” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Though I have friends aplenty in academia, I don't operate within the academic system myself. — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
I got fed up with academia and decided I would rather be a carpenter. — Geoffrey Hinton Copy Share Image
“The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small” — Henry Kissinger Copy Share Image
“There's a formality in academia that can't be ignored, even if a man is busy with other things, like trying not to… — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
Competition in academia is so vicious because the stakes are so small. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
THE GUYS IN THE OLD DAYS WHO BELIEVED THE EARTH WAS ROUND MUST HAVE HAD A VERY ROUGH TIME WITH ACADEMIA — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
