Academic Quotes - Page 4

The armoury of having any academic education does not necessarily set you up for being a good or better actor.

I'm a commercial person, not an academic.

Nothing infuriates an academic more than a talented and successful colleague.

That I was not suited to commerce or academic study in no way proves that I should also be unfit to be a painter.

Now, practically all reviewers have academic aspirations. The people from the universities are used to a captive audience, but the literary journalist has to please his audience.

I'm not a clown but I'm not an academic either.

I put that part of myself into both Brendan and Evelyn [from The Thorn and the Blossom] - as well as some of my own anxieties about the academic life!

If history, philosophy and so on vanish from academic life, what they leave in their wake may be a technical training facility or corporate research institute. But it will not be a university in the classical sense of the term, and it would be deceptive to call it one.

Sociological prose is generally written without images in an exact form for an academic audience.

I had an interest in health policy and a realization that, as an academic physician, one of the things you're always looking to do is to have your clinical interests and your scholarly interests overlap and reinforce one another.

Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good talks. But being considered the best speaker in the computer science department is like being known as the tallest of the Seven Dwarfs.

It does not make sense. It cannot exist. It's impossible, and if it isn't impossible, it's irrelevant, and if it isn't either of those things, it's embarrassing.

I don't know if 1300 players could really participate in the selection of a commissioner, and I've never given it a great deal of thought. I think it's a logical point they could make, but it's only an academic one

I was an academic and I lost my assignment at Harvard. Meanwhile, [David Petraeus] gets invited to Harvard to become a fellow.

The obstacles facing academic economists are formidable, for tenure and professional advancement still depend to a large extent on a willingness to comply with and to work within the tenets of orthodox theory.

I was hired for a really excellent academic job early in my life; I was twenty-five when I started at Princeton and I got tenure early on. I really didn't deserve this; I just happened to be in the right place at the right time.

The reason academic disputes are so vicious is that so little is at stake.

MIT is governed by a second, even higher rule: the inalienable right of academic freedom.

Such boycotts threaten academic speech and exchange, which is our solemn duty as academic institutions to protect.

The aim of academic trade theory is to tell students, "Look at the model, not at how nations actually develop." So of all the branches of economic theory, trade theory is the most wrongheaded.

The academic world was marching toward ever more specialized knowledge, expressed in ever more dense jargon.

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

I am not built for academic writings. Action is my domain.

I love art, but I'm not an academic; I just like what I like.

There is a common misconception that intelligence is synonymous with IQ. "Intelligence Quotient" or IQ was originally built to predict the academic aptitude of schoolchildren, and is nothing more than a measure of the skills needed for academic success. Intelligence, however, is a much broader concept that encompasses a person's level of skill for any of a number of subjects.