Alternatives Quote by Leon Botstein

“Without the willingness to study, how can you become a scholar?”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar genius, he cannot succeed. I am…

— P. T. Barnum

“Vocation at its deepest level is, 'This is something I can't not do, for reasons I'm unable to explain to anyone else and don't…

— Parker Palmer

“You may know how to operate computers. You may know a lot about aliens or robots. You may be a doctor, lawyer, engineer, teacher,…

— Maddy Malhotra

The problem with University degrees, particularly the more spectacular ones, is that people who possess them can fall into the trap of thinking people…

— Robert Genn

Research is not a systematic occupation but an intuitive artistic vocation.

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Academicians get nowhere.

— Marilyn Ferguson

We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of…

— Jonathan Swift

Academics' lives are seldom interesting.

— Gilles Deleuze

I know, indeed, and can conceive of no pursuit so antagonistic to the cultivation of the oratorical faculty ... as the study of Mathematics.…

— James Joseph Sylvester

A vocation is the backbone of life.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There are very few persons who pursue science with true dignity.

— Humphry Davy