Academia Quotes

54 Academia quotes by 48 unique authors

I think if somebody is so set in their ways about what they feel about something - and you get this a lot in academia,… — Jon Ronson
After I left college I thought, very naively, that either you became someone interesting - an artist - or you went into academia. If you… — Joshua Ferris
Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of specialisations and accords… — Jay Griffiths
Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background. — Paul Giamatti
Practically everybody (1) overweighs the stuff that can be numbered, because it yields to the statistical techniques they’re taught in academia, and (2) doesn’t mix… — Charlie Munger
When the established members of academia start becoming vocal as to how poor your art is, then you know you're on to something. — Derek R. Audette
The brain scientists are the wave of the future in the financial world. If you seek to maximize understanding, whether you're in academia or in… — Daniel Kahneman
Yeah, I am a guy working on physics outside of academia. But I'm nowhere near Einstein's caliber. — Antony Garrett Lisi
A chair's function is not just to provide a place to sit; it is to provide a medium for self-expression. Chairs are about status, for… — Evan Davis
One of the things that's great about New York is that it is not a one-industry town. It has education, academia, the service industry, arts,… — Sarah Jessica Parker
People who are exceptionally intelligent are often lonely because there are few people as intelligent as them. I have two little children, and everyone says:… — Helen McCrory
Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates. — Werner Herzog
Will his work survive? Alas, I worry that it will not. As an American liberal with impeccable credentials, I would like to say that political… — Pat Conroy
Most areas of intellectual life have discovered the virtues of speculation, and have embraced them wildly. In academia, speculation is usually dignified as theory. — Michael Crichton
It is extraordinarily difficult, even in academia, to find a job that will let you do whatever you want with your time. If you are… — Antony Garrett Lisi
Most architects work in studios largely divorced from academia, as if ideas, criticism and historical research were irrelevant. — David Chipperfield
I struggled to keep one foot in music and one in academia. I had worked on my Ph.D. for three years full time before I… — Greg Graffin
My mother was a very good violinist; my father was a musicologist and spent most of his life in academia. — Pete Seeger
I worked in information technology and academia for a long time and met many people who were better with things and ideas than with people. — Graeme Simsion
The left controls academia, the culture, and the news media. — Monica Crowley
Forcing companies to recruit away from the golf course might lead to the appointment of more women from NGOs and academia and medicine, all of… — Noreena Hertz
I have been blessed to have had many excellent teachers. The further I get away from school, though, the more I realize that the greatest… — Brad Thor
These poor women in academia have to talk this silly language that nobody can understand in order to be accepted, they think. — Gloria Steinem
You can see the absence of women in governing bodies from Congress to state legislators, on corporate boards, in tenured positions in academia, and as… — Gloria Steinem
The Time to Succeed Coalition brings together an unprecedented group of leaders from education and business, communities and academia to say that it is time… — Chris Gabrieli

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