Self-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent. — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
It was the usual sort of academic battle: footnotes at ten paces, bolstered by snide articles in academic journals and lots of… — Lauren Willig Copy Share Image
If all you had was academic ability, you wouldn't have been able to get out of bed this morning. In fact, there… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
Numerous are the academic professors, but rare are wise and noble teachers. — Albert Einstein 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
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
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
Perhaps the best argument...that the Big Bang supports theism is the obvious unease with which it is greeted by some atheist physicists.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Rebecca was an academic star. Her new book was on the phenomenon of word casings, a term she'd invented for words that… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Given the way universities work to reinforce and perpetuate the status quo, the way knowledge is offered as commodity, Women's Studies can… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
There are dangers for an artist in any academic environment. Academia rewards people who know their own minds and have developed an… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
I think poets should work in the non-literary, non-academic world, get to know more than a workshop or a university. — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Mine is studying script and being very academic and trying to be important. — Christoph Waltz 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
“Academic criticism often focuses on pleasing the examiners for various purposes. It lacks the aesthetic design, the nobility of purpose and the… — Alok Mishra Copy Share Image
I always had a knack for improvisation. I can write down the notes I play, but never really had a proper academic… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
The Prussian Academy of Sciences is a fast-track academic institute that requires a proactive, hands-on-type individual to overthrow the Newtonian conception of… — Albert Einstein 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
I'm not an academic, but I've always loved poetry since I've been small. — Naveen Andrews 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 capacity to innovate - the ability to solve problems creatively or bring new possibilities to life - and skills like critical… — Tony Wagner Copy Share Image
Sovereignty and the right to rule cannot be conferred on anyone no matter who ... as a result of an academic discussion.… — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Copy Share Image
With a weak and rotting core, you don't have much of a foreign policy. You're discounted at the negotiating table, economically and… — Jon Huntsman, Jr Copy Share Image
“The rites of passage in the academic world are arcane and, in their own way, highly romantic, and the tensions and unplesantries… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
I was just this chubby little Indian kid who looked like a nerd. I didn't have a ton of academic skills. It… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
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