I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that… — Ken Thompson Copy Share Image
My first MFA was in poetry, and it was very much part of a professional trajectory leading to life as a professor.… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
What college is all about is some kind of 4-year game about who is going to end up with the highest grades.… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
Not a moment passes these days without fresh rushes of academic lemmings off the cliffs they proclaim the political responsibilities of the… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
patriarchal academic hierarchies in science and technology are now overspecialized and abstract, perhaps because they have systematically excluded women, as well as… — Hazel Henderson Copy Share Image
I didn't have friends. No one talked to me. I used to go to the Wyndcroft School (nationally recognized for academic excellence)… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
Quality afterschool programs provide safe, engaging and fun learning experiences to help children and youth develop their social, emotional, physical, cultural and… — Debbie Stabenow Copy Share Image
Hence the vogue for double majors. It isn’t enough anymore to take a bunch of electives in addition to your primary focus,… — William Deresiewicz 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
Academic scientists aren't generally interested in books for the public. So when one comes out, the authors can't expect much praise from… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
Complexity and obscurity have professional value - they are the academic equivalents of apprenticeship rules in the building trades. They exclude the… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The leaders of the Pahlavi regime, in an attempt to forestall the rising tide of the Islamic revolutionary movement, were hard at… — Yousef Saanei Copy Share Image
How I understand the philosopher - as a terrible explosive, endangering everthing... my concept of the philosopher is worlds removed from any… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The true reader reads every work seriously in the sense that he reads it whole-heartedly, makes himself as receptive as he can.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Realism as a foreign policy doctrine means basically you don't care about values; you consider them a luxury, and it leads to… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
Film theory has nothing to do with film. Students presumably hope to find out something about film, and all they will find… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
“All the things we experience in life can be separated into two realms, the realm of the concept and the realm of… — Scott McCloud Copy Share Image
I did study Shakespeare, that was sort of my thing; I got a Literature A-level, which is my only claim to academic… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
Unless we learn from history, we are destined to repeat it. This is no longer merely an academic exercise, but may contain… — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
I want you to have all the academic freedom you want as long as you wind up saying the bible account (of… — Jerry Falwell Copy Share Image
There should be more interaction and more confidence building between our various academic institutions just like how there needs to be a… — Pallam Raju 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
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
Anyone can write an academic piece directed at other academics. To write something that delivers an argument and a gripping storyline to… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Academic chairs are many, but wise and noble teachers are few; lecture-rooms are numerous and large, but the number of young people… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I've tried to make a book that's accessible to the ordinary, intelligent reader. Very often books that cover this kind of subject… — Brian Crozier Copy Share Image
I'm a vague, conjunctured personality, more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles. — Woodrow Wilson 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
Just as an individual's ability to delay gratification at a young age is a powerful predictor of future academic and professional achievement,… — Peter Blair Henry Copy Share Image
My style is neither casual nor academic, it's somewhere in between. For me, that's the best way to be succinct and informative… — Joel McIver Copy Share Image
Many people have serious academic degrees but cannot find a job, and sadly their degrees are so limited that they cannot even… — Haki R. Madhubuti 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
Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the… — Alan Greenspan 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
“Too many live with the false promise that their faith will deliver them from doubt and conveniently supply all the answers to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The arts are statistically proven to increase independent thinking, creativity, discipline, balance, and academic improvement in children. — Mya Copy Share Image
The academic mind reflects infinity, and is full of light by the simple process of being shallow and standing still. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I come out of an academic background, and I'm aware that what I'm doing is simultaneously research and fiction. I want to… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
