Now, I'm as appreciative as the next obsessive-compulsive recovering-academic of the vast riches of material becoming available online, thanks to all those… — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
I did a lot of my writing as though I was an academic, doing some piece of research as perfectly as possible. — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
Thinking gets you nowhere. It may be a fine and noble aid in academic studies, but you can't think your way out… — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
Don't ask the barber whether you need a haircut, and don't ask an academic if what he does is relevant. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
There is no academic virtue in playing mediocre football and no academic vice in winning a game that by all odds one… — Theodore Hesburgh Copy Share Image
Year after year after year, people write books about managing innovation or about leadership, for example, without ever going through the pain… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
“I try not to look like a university man here....My fellow-guests think of a university degree as a disgraceful preliminary to the… — Eilis Dillon Copy Share Image
I don't consider myself attractive. I'm an academic, and in academia, people will write you off if you look younger. — Alissa Nutting Copy Share Image
Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women; those of us who have been forged… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
The ability to draw from life determines the artist's skill. This is why live drawing classes have always been at the top… — Igor Babailov Copy Share Image
My uncommon sense told me to write this book [Turn and blossom], even though I was in the middle of making final… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
Writing on the blog, you want to get attention and make strong claims. In academic work, that often doesn't pay, so sometimes… — Alex Tabarrok Copy Share Image
The trailblazers in human, academic, scientific and religious freedom have always been nonconformists. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“There is a girl behind the desk in blue uniform, with dark red hair, spread fanlike from her head in lacquered splendour;… — Malcolm Bradbury Copy Share Image
In academic life, false ideas are merely false and useless ones can be fun to play with. In political life, false ideas… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
Just as we take for granted the need to acquire proficiency in the basic academic subjects, I am hopeful that a time… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Mom was an academic, so the riches that she had to bestow were of the mind. — Maya Soetoro-Ng Copy Share Image
Something else an academic education will do for you. If you go along with it any considerable distance, it will begin to… — Anonymous 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
States are free to modify the Common Core State Standards or adopt their own individual standards, because academic standards are the prerogative… — Jeb Bush 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
I think reading intelligent expressions of different points of view is a good thing, and there is a way in which being… — William Kristol Copy Share Image
I'm trying to make music a sensual expression, not an academic experiment. — Andrew Hill Copy Share Image
In that sense, Obama is America's first postmodern president. If his predecessors tended to see the world in terms of good and… — Stephen F. Hayes Copy Share Image
