Academic Quotes - Page 3

I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.

I tried being a mechanic and I tried catering, but I realized I had even less aptitude for semi-skilled labour than for academic work.

Freedom of speech is not an academic value. Accuracy of speech is an academic value; completeness of speech is an academic value; relevance of speech is an academic value. Each of these is directly related to the goal of academic inquiry: getting a matter of fact right.

I'm not an academic, but I've always loved poetry since I've been small.

To be a writer you have to write -- and no academic degree is going to do the writing for you.

The academic life is wonderful. That's why people love to do research.

In Britain the power of authority was weakened. There was much more individual freedom and there was great academic freedom.

I'm not sure that I've ever been drawn to the academic life as such. Theology has been a matter of survival for me. If I have a carapace of academic presentability, it is thanks to the wonderful teachers I had.

I think that we already have a really good system in town, but I have a vision that it could be even better. My vision is that academic excellence is the area that we should pursue more, coupled with fiscal discipline.

My father was an academic, an eccentric. He was a lecturer.

Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things read in books.

Academic freedom is being lost by a great many people who dare to challenge Darwinism. That's a terrifying situation. That's contrary to the principles of science.

Hell! there ain't no rules around here! We are tryin' to accomplish somep'n!

I didn't have friends. No one talked to me. I used to go to the Wyndcroft School (nationally recognized for academic excellence) in Pottstown, and when I moved to Wyomissing, I didn't know anybody.

Programming is legitimate and necessary academic endeavour.

I'm an academic. It's publish or perish.

I really never thought I would be an actor professionally. I was very academic and was like, "That's so irresponsible. I would never do that." And now, here I am.

13.5 Mrs. Wolfe asks whether Mr. Iqbal expects her Susan to undertake compulsory headstands. 13.6 Mr. Iqbal infers that, considering Susan's academic performance and weight problems, a headstand regime might be desirable.

I wanted to get everything right. I was super nerdy and academic. I got so much satisfaction out of getting good grades.

Academic work is one of those fields which contain a pearl so precious that it is worth while to sell all our possessions, keeping nothing for ourselves, in order to be able to acquire it.

There's some pretty good academic research that suggest that what Americans don't like is losing.

Academic staff rather enjoy coming to conclusions, but they don't like coming to decisions at all.

I've always been more inclined to go out to work than carry on with academic studies.

It's a good thing that we're protected by tenure and academic freedom, but we should realize that it creates a risk of getting cut off. Scholars should write, at least sometimes, for the general public.

To the extent that tenure supports academic freedom, I support tenure. I want no person or system to have any power, real or apparent, to chill academic freedom.