Self-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent. — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
If I had been a member of the academic establishment, I could have done other experiments. — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all. — Gavin Bryars Copy Share Image
One of the best indicators of student achievement is the academic success of the mother in the home. — Tony Danza Copy Share Image
I come from an academic background. I wasn't raised to be into promoting myself. — Michael Heizer Copy Share Image
I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
And in most highly academic environments in the United States, no one fails anything. — Paul Tough Copy Share Image
In actual fact, I have been an academic - a college and university teacher and scholar - for much of the last… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Basically, I was always very interested in comedy, but I was much more sort of academic. And then, after college, loaded with… — Jessi Klein Copy Share Image
First fulfill your academic obligations and then you will have the right to call yourself a leader of the left. — Salvador Allende Copy Share Image
There's a certain kind of academic that comes to Washington and can't survive. They're the ones starting each sentence with 'The economic… — Austan Goolsbee Copy Share Image
I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go… — Kate Moss Copy Share Image
We are working to understand the tastes of people born in the 1980s and 1990s - it is very different from my… — Zong Qinghou Copy Share Image
I really never thought I would be an actor professionally. I was very academic and was like, "That's so irresponsible. I would… — Andrea Savage Copy Share Image
In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
No one expects a Broadway musical comedy to be in the vanguard of what is bohemian, raunchy, folkloric, academic or aggressively experimental.… — Margo Jefferson Copy Share Image
Anti-Americanism is as old as the Republic--a historical constant, which is only remotely related to specific American behavior. So what is new?… — Josef Joffe Copy Share Image
If one is interested in the relations between fields which, according to customary academic divisions, belong to different departments, then he will… — Rudolf Carnap Copy Share Image
Nobody in my family is in the show business, and none of my friends were. I went to a very academic school… — Freema Agyeman Copy Share Image
I've written important articles on prevention, on the concept of the preventive state, how the law is moving much more in an… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
In the academic setting, you take (typically) lonely, interesting middle-aged men and beautiful, intelligent young women, and everybody's motivations for display and… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
The audience creates its own personality, I've noticed, in the first five minutes. They will either be generous, funny, silly, withholding, academic,… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
Anyone who has actually had to take responsibility for consequences by running any kind of enterprise whether economic or academic, or even… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Biblical higher criticism is preserved in the particular enclave of academic Christian scholarship and is thought to be too unfruitful to share… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
Until the Left took over American public education in the second half of the 20th century, it was generally excellent - look… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
I see top business schools working to bridge this gap [between academic research and business application] by respecting executive education, by having… — Dave Ulrich Copy Share Image
We must protect each other against the attacks of those self-appointed watchdogs of patriotism now abroad in the land who irresponsibly pin… — Joel Henry Hildebrand 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
[Wendy] Davis [pursued] higher education, as her campaign website says, with 'the help of academic scholarships, student loans, and state and federal… — Liza Mundy Copy Share Image
My literary criticism has become less specifically academic. I was really writing literary history in The New Poetic, but my general practice… — Christian Karlson Stead Copy Share Image
With the states release today of a set of clear and consistent academic standards, our nation is one step closer to supporting… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image