Tenure Quotes

66 Tenure quotes by 59 unique authors

A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death. It not only gives us fortitude to bear pain, but teaches us at every… — William Hazlitt
Writers who teach tend to prefer literary theory to literature and tenure to all else. Writers who do not teach prefer the contemplation of Careers… — Gore Vidal
I have spent my tenure in office - and, in fact, my adult lifetime - fighting for things that I care deeply about. And as… — Bev Perdue
But I will say, I think there are some Democrats that don't want to address pension reform. I have taken on the issue of seniority… — Antonio Villaraigosa
Look, you're not going to get me to say that Democrats don't make mistakes. We do. I mentioned two areas - pension reform and seniority… — Antonio Villaraigosa
I didn't want to become a professor or get tenure or teach or anything. All I wanted to do was get a degree because Louis… — Jane Goodall
These days, to be seven years in one spot in any pro sport is a pretty long tenure. — Andrew Bogut
I would not have stayed at a university if it told me upfront that a condition for me getting tenure. my views have to be… — Norman Finkelstein
A man has a very insecure tenure of a property which another can carry away with his eyes. A few months reduced me to the… — Samuel Crompton
That, in part, is why the Constitution's framers gave justices life tenure ? to enable them to rule wherever the law and the Constitution led… — Gerald R. Ford
Each citizen contributes to the revenues of the State a portion of his property in order that his tenure of the rest may be secure. — Baron de Montesquieu
Cheap music, childish images, the vulgate in language, in its crassest sense, can penetrate to the deeps of our necessities and dreams. It can assert… — George Steiner
The very concept of an Iranian university is an oxymoron. There are no free and open places of learning in that repressive theocracy. Dissenters are… — Alan Dershowitz
A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office. — Hubert H. Humphrey
In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual… — Walter Lippmann
As far as I'm concerned, the first business leader who was able to establish a cult of personality around his tenure was Lee Iacocca. — Tom Peters
I thought the Bush economic policy was a disaster. We lost 500,000 private sector jobs during his tenure. — Bernie Sanders
My tenure in the Senate was really as an independent and whichever, regardless of party label. — Arlen Specter
The productivity now at universities is terrible. Tenure is a terrible idea. It keeps them around forever and they don't have to work hard. — Jack Welch
Only the strongest are put through the fire,' Josiah said. 'And the forge creates things of great strength and beauty.' 'Then I shall be truly… — Sharon Shinn
And fragile is thy tenure of this world Still haunted by the monstrous ghost of God. ("To Science") — George Sterling
It was the purest love without purpose other than love itself. Without tenure or jealousy. — Luis SepÃºlveda
A significant number of people believe tribal people still live and dress as they did 300 years ago. During my tenure as principal chief of… — Wilma Mankiller
No human being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does. — Henry David Thoreau
The rationale for tenure is still valid. But the system has turned the academy into one of the most conservative and costly institutions in the… — Francis Fukuyama

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