I've often heard academics disparage non-academic writing in terms that suggest it could be a negative in the tenure process, irrespective of… — Daniel Drezner Copy Share Image
We are selling ourselves very short by funneling our energies into what the traditional perception is of academic and monetary success. — Gunter Pauli Copy Share Image
It is not that the university as such is against spiritual formation. It is just that often the university does not know… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
I put that part of myself into both Brendan and Evelyn [from The Thorn and the Blossom] - as well as some… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
My doodles and sketches are not the work of an academic engineer. They represent many years of design study in attempts to… — Alec Issigonis Copy Share Image
As a kid, I never thought I'd be an actress. Never, ever, ever, no way. I was really shy - bordering on… — Rebel Wilson Copy Share Image
Right after graduation, I married Samuel Fisher Babbitt, an academic administrator. I spent the next ten years in Connecticut, Tennessee, and Washington,… — Natalie Babbitt Copy Share Image
Going through these academic programs, your job really is to learn how to be a therapist. They're training you to sit in… — Kelly Carlin-McCall Copy Share Image
I remember from my academic days, there were people who could never begin writing because they hadn't read every single thing on… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
I said that if I hadn't been a politician, I'd have liked to be a barrister, or an academic. My beloved wife… — John Bercow Copy Share Image
Work is, after all, not a busy running back and forth in established grooves, though that is the essence of our modern… — Hugh Nibley Copy Share Image
Anyone writing a picture-book biography of Lincoln has a different set of responsibilities from someone writing a biography for sixth-graders, say, or… — Russell Freedman Copy Share Image
I decided to become a teacher because I thought it would be a great career where I could wear different hats. You're… — Erik Weihenmayer Copy Share Image
I'm in a profession with a dismal success rate, in an academic field with a dismal hiring rate. And I don't write,… — Davis Schneiderman Copy Share Image
I think that we already have a really good system in town, but I have a vision that it could be even… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
A child blind from birth doesn't even know he's blind until someone tells him. Even then he has only the most academic… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The academic world doesn't invite you to try to walk on two feet all the time. And in philosophy especially . .… — Stanley Cavell Copy Share Image
Academic training in beauty is a sham. We have been so deceived, but so well deceived that we can scarcely get back… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Traditional academic science describes human beings as highly developed animals and biological thinking machines. We appear to be Newtonian objects made of… — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
Unless we are willing to encourage our children to reconnect with and appreciate the natural world, we can't expect them to help… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a novelist from a very early age - 11 or 12 - but I don't think I ever… — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
The most important aspect of freedom of speech is freedom to learn. All education is a continuous dialogue - questions and answers… — William O. Douglas 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
My whole purpose is to bring what's hidden out in the open so people can look at it and discuss it. And… — Annie Sprinkle Copy Share Image
I'd somehow always thought of the classics of literature as something apart from me, something to do with academic life and not… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
Women's studies is a comfy, chummy morass of unchallenged groupthink . It is, with rare exception, totally unscholarly. Academic feminists have silenced… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. When visiting the U.S. from Germany for a winter academic stay. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
There is much more to schools than buildings. There are academic activities, how it reaches the community and its proximity to other… — John Warner Copy Share Image
Obscurantism is the academic theorist's revenge on society for having consigned him or her to relative obscurity - a way of proclaiming… — David Lehman Copy Share Image
I'm not an academic; I'm just a bookish Joe who gets passionate about certain writers and suddenly wants to read everything they've… — Blake Bailey Copy Share Image
Academic disciplines are subject to being overtaken by attacks of "knowingness"- a state of mind and soul that prevents shudders of awe… — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
Ward Churchill might be more valuable to the opponents of the academic left employed than unemployed. Above all, he can serve as… — Mort Kondracke Copy Share Image
Postmodernism is an academic theory, originating in academia with an academic elite, not in the world of women and men, where feminist… — Catharine MacKinnon Copy Share Image
When writing fiction, you only have to know enough to be convincing on the page. I mean really convincing, of course -… — Simon Mawer Copy Share Image
It's probably indicative that I was destined for an academic career that I'm 6-5 and I lost the slam-dunk championship to somebody… — Peter Blair Henry Copy Share Image
I published only in academic journals in philosophy until I was in my 40s, but I had been writing fiction and poetry… — Cheryl Mendelson Copy Share Image
The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination — Nassim Nicholas Taleb 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
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
I went to a very academic school that actually - when I got to the point of wanting to pursue acting, they… — Freema Agyeman Copy Share Image