Academia Quote by Dawn O'Porter

I've been in and out of academia ever since I was young.

— Toomas Hendrik Ilves

Growing up, I've always kinda been into academics.

— apl.de.ap

During college, I found academics repulsive and forced myself to study subjects I didn't want to pursue.

— Ishaan Khatter

I just decided that I didn't want to be in the academic world, because it was [really] too easy for me at the top.…

— Betty Friedan

I was a real unfocused academic student, always fiddling around in class, or doing something silly and thinking of something else that had nothing…

— Adriano Zumbo

I could have seen myself going into academia, but I don't love it; I just like it.

— Mira Sorvino

Too many years away from academia renders you pretty incompetent at research and teaching. So I had to go back.

— Raghuram Rajan

Academics were not a challenge when I was fifteen in college. The challenge was figuring out how to fit in socially.

— Ian Bremmer

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

— Joan Didion

I don't know that my schooling was conducive to wild ideas and creativity, but it gave me discipline, drive. They taught me how to…

— Lady Gaga

I was the kind of kid who couldn't really stop making up stories during class. I didn't do very well academically because I was…

— Meg Cabot

I never really felt pushed at school or that I was struggling; it came naturally.

— Patrick Bamford