Barriers Quote by Madame de Stael

Attraction and distraction are the two stumbling blocks that are essentially met en route in lifes journey towards excellence.

— Anuj Somany

“extreme specialization prevents scholars from developing a perspective.”

— Stefan Klein

Everyone has something to learn from one another. When different disciplines meet, it creates this amazing unpredictability.

— Jonathan Anderson

The combination of creative energies and the need to perform at the highest level to keep up with peers leads to an otherwise unattainable…

— Ken Robinson

If you can't see an example of what you could be, you really aren't going to have that extra incentive to break through any…

— Julia Hartz

“Isolation and competition are inhospitable to learning.”

— Roland Barthes

Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.

— James D. Watson

Competition in academia is so vicious because the stakes are so small.

— Laurence J. Peter

The want of education and moral training is the only real barrier that exists between the different classes of men.

— Susanna Moodie

When a profession is protected by academic freedom and tenure, it tends to turn inward. To a large extent that's good.

— Martha C. Nussbaum

The morality of scholarship, as currently practiced, is to encourage everyone to replace difficult pleasures by pleasures universally accessible precisely because they are easier.

— Harold Bloom

People at the top are closing ranks so tightly that all possibility of subjective deviation has gone, and difference can be sought only in…

— Theodor Adorno