I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
I came from an anxious, overly intense East Coast academic family. That was the way of our tribe. — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
And in most highly academic environments in the United States, no one fails anything. — Paul Tough 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
If I had been a member of the academic establishment, I could have done other experiments. — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
The academic life is wonderful. That's why people love to do research. — Michael Marmot Copy Share Image
What passes for political realism may make for lively academic debates. But it often functions, ironically, as a tool of social control,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you look at academic studies, you can see that stock prices are most closely correlated with cash flow. It's such a… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
It's too much to expect in an academic setting that we should all agree, but it is not too much to expect… — John Howard Copy Share Image
I wasn't a very academic kid, and music was the way for all that feeling and angst and sex and love and… — Dave Davies Copy Share Image
My knowledge of science came from being with Carl, not from formal academic training. Carl gave me a thrilling tutorial in science… — Ann Druyan Copy Share Image
A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible 'lifestyles' turns universities into academic… — George Will Copy Share Image
When a profession is protected by academic freedom and tenure, it tends to turn inward. To a large extent that's good. — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
If you need to invoke your academic pedigree or job title for people to believe what you say, then you need a… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
In preparation for a career in academic medicine, I worked as a medical house officer at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital from 1966 to 1968… — Harold E. Varmus Copy Share Image
There will have to be rigid and iron discipline before we achieve anything great and enduring, and that discipline will not come… — Mahatma Gandhi 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
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
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
We academics - I am an academic - we love complexity. You can write papers about complexity, and the nice thing about… — George M. Whitesides Copy Share Image
Churchmen are quick to defend religious freedom; lawyers were never so universally aroused as by President Roosevelt's Court bill; newspapers are most… — Earl Warren Copy Share Image
And there was, in those Ipswich years, for me at least, a raw educational component; though I used to score well in… — John Updike Copy Share Image
The real scientific study of the distribution of wealth has, we must confess, scarcely begun. The conventional academic study of the so-called… — Irving Fisher 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
[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
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
I tell this anecdote with tongue in cheek at the start of my book William Burroughs and the Secret of Fascination, but… — Oliver Harris Copy Share Image
Self-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent. — Charles Duhigg 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 don't approach my writing or my work from an academic or analytical point of view. I do it for myself. — Chath Piersath Copy Share Image
The trailblazers in human, academic, scientific and religious freedom have always been nonconformists. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
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