Academic Quotes · Page 5

Academic success depends on research and publications.

— Philip Zimbardo

I had to make a choice - recede into the academic world, or wade into politics.

— Elizabeth Warren

I'm an academic. I teach at the university, and that's where I will go back to.

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

The resources of a university, of a college, should not be wasted in merely academic pursuits.

— Howard Zinn

I look at Google and think they have a strong academic culture. Elegant solutions to complex problems.

— Mark Zuckerberg

There's some pretty good academic research that suggest that what Americans don't like is losing.

— Peter Bergen

Jazz is neither specific repertoire, nor academic exercise... but a way of life.

— Lester Bowie

I ended up being a businessman unwittingly. I wanted to be an academic; I wanted to be like Einstein.

— Mo Ibrahim

I don't know if 1300 players could really participate in the selection of a commissioner, and I've never given it a great…

— Pete Rozelle

I don't have specific television ambitions in the sense that I remain fundamentally and academic, and so, my innermost ambitions are what's…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

It took me a couple of years after I got out of Berkeley before I dared to start writing. That academic mind-set…

— Joan Didion

Everyone who makes films has to be an athlete to a certain degree because cinema does not come from abstract academic thinking;…

— Werner Herzog

My whole academic career was totally out of Jewish anxiety, and issues surrounding achievement and adequacy.

— Ram Dass

But one did not do feminist theory, as such, in those days, not only because male academic discourse did not recognize such…

— Teresa de Lauretis

Careers in virtually all academic disciplines are fostered by being a superstar who knows more about one subject than anyone else in…

— Philip Zimbardo

In 'Pictures from an Institution,' Randall Jarrell was able to transcend the academic novel by simply ignoring it, writing a comedy with…

— Cathleen Schine

I also believe that academic freedom should protect the right of a professor or student to advocate Marxism, socialism, communism, or any…

— Richard M. Nixon

As every student in Philosophy 101 learns, nothing can force me to believe that anyone except me is conscious. This power to…

— Steven Pinker

My contention is, first, that we should want more from our educational efforts than adequate academic achievement and, second, that we will…

— Nel Noddings

If you're in the business world, that's what's expected: You should go bust and then start again on something else. So it's…

— Freeman Dyson

Yes, the academic world is screwed up, and there is nothing you can do about it. But don't worry about that. Just…

— Paul Feyerabend

If a manager asks an academic consultant what to do and that consultant answers, then the consultant should be fired. No academic…

— James G. March

The landscape in academic science is traditionally male-dominated. Women didn't always see themselves there - there was a lack of role models,…

— Kirsty Duncan

I'm not into politics but I am committed to a cause: ensuring design technology and engineering stays on the U.K. curriculum, alongside…

— James Dyson

“I still feel glad to emphasize the duty, the defining characteristic of the pure scientist—probably to be found working in universities—who commit…

— C.A.R. Hoare

Until the Left took over American public education in the second half of the 20th century, it was generally excellent - look…

— Dennis Prager

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

...if use is not an appropriate criterion for decision making in the academic life, what is? Love. ...The virtues of love as…

— Leroy S Rouner

“It was hard to decide on a literature course. Everything the professors said seemed to be somehow beside the point. You wanted…

— Elif Batuman

Most Chinese filmmakers grew up watching television; they watched films on television, not in cinemas. The scope of their vision is not…

— Gordon Chan

Barry Jones once said that Australia is the only country where the word 'academic' is a pejorative. The academic sector has a…

— Gustav Nossal

Here is God's purpose - For God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper; is the…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

I got through at Ignatius. I did OK, not great in any of my academic endeavors.

— William M. Daley

I wasn't sporty or academic, so to avoid getting picked on I'd play the fool.

— Lee Evans

In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal.

— Loretta Young

I was interested in implements of mass destruction - from an academic point of view.

— Dan Farmer

One should engage himself in self study to refine his intelligence and to acquire knowledge.

— Atharva Veda

“My priority is not about grades. I seek yearn for knowledge, skills and wisdom.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

A genius is someone who takes a complex thing and makes it look simple. An academic does the opposite.

— Robert Fanney

I don't think academic writing ever was wonderful. However, science used to be much less specialized.

— Stephen Jay Gould