Nonfiction narratives are really powerful and valid in themselves. But one thing that you don't get sometimes from the more clinical or… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
I don't have an MBA, and I didn't go to Yale. I'm not an academic person and wasn't a good student. Instead,… — Lapo Elkann Copy Share Image
Intellectuals of the categories happen to enjoy unusual privilege, unique in history, I suppose. It's easy enough to find ugly illustrations of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Universities think people come up with great ideas by closing the door. The academic tenure process, where you have to publish to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We academic scientists move within a certain sphere, we can go on being useless up to a point, in the confidence that… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
I was a huge bookworm, total nerd, so I was a victim in middle school. I was in three academic clubs, so… — Nicole Gale Anderson Copy Share Image
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
Build your schools around concepts, not academic subjects: core concepts such as awareness, honesty, responsibility, freedom and diversity in oneness. Teach your… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
If you think your child's academic studies are more important than the arts, think again. — Plato Copy Share Image
I have read all of Daniel Aaron's books, and admired them, but in The Americanist I believe he has composed an intellectual… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
For all those who are interested in the spiritual, emotional, intellectual, esthetic, historical or any other aspects of our dance art... It… — Padma Subrahmanyam Copy Share Image
You know lots of criticism is written by characters who are very academic and think it is a sign you are worthless… — Ernest Hemingway 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 kind of got more interested in writing after I turned in my last college essay and nobody was going to tell… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
I have many enemies and they all think I'm being highfalutin calling it performance, but the word "reading" has a connotation of… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The sad thing about Trump is that everybody is secretly really relieved he got elected, of the people I know - the… — Cody Wilson Copy Share Image
I wonder whether I might have meant "terrify us" but perhaps as well there was a less than conscious effort to show… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
There's nobody in the world that wouldn't change places with the Americans. The economy is phenomenally large, the entrepreneurial class is very… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
You know what happiness is: 'Having a little more money than your colleagues.' And that's not so tough in academic life. — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
“If there is one central intellectual reality at the end of the twentieth century, it is that the biological approach to psychiatry--treating… — Edward Shorter Copy Share Image
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good talks. But being considered the best speaker in the computer science department is… — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
My perspective on the academic world is very favorable. I did certain kinds of things that I could never have done otherwise. — Paul Lansky Copy Share Image
I've spent quality time in the aerospace community, with my service on two presidential commissions, but at heart, I'm an academic. Being… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Every time I've had to do journalistic investigations, I've cursed, but later I discovered that it had helped me enormously with writing… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
