Academic Quotes

I look at Google and think they have a strong academic culture. Elegant solutions to complex problems.

It's too much to expect in an academic setting that we should all agree, but it is not too much to expect discipline and unvarying civility.

The job in Wisconsin was the first genuine offer of an academic job in a university which I received.

But one did not do feminist theory, as such, in those days, not only because male academic discourse did not recognize such a term, but especially because the women's movement did not either.

I was always more of an academic than a jock.

In terms of individuals who actually inspired me, very few of the academic people that I had access to had that power over me. Maybe it's simply because I wasn't that committed to geometry.

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

An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providing alternative opportunities to reward the skills of children who learn differently.

When I went from being an academic to being a member of the community of writers some of my former colleagues did look on me with a certain resentment.

The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all.

At age 11 in 1960, I moved to an academic state secondary school, Harrow County Grammar School for Boys.

I have also been attacked by my opponents as someone seeking to purge university faculties of leftist professors. This is false. The first provision of the Academic Bill of Rights is that no professor should be hired or fired because of his or her political views. I have never myself called for the firing of any professor for his or her political views, nor would I.

I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic.

I'm an artist, I'm not an academic folklorist.

I don't have the notion that everybody has to write in some single academic style.

After my stellar first grade academic achievements, I continued to perform well in the city primary schools - except for penmanship, which was not my forte.

Personally I discovered that you could go through the academy as a young scholar, come out, and almost immediately have an impact on the academic environment.

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.

Some people stay in the academic world just to avoid becoming self-aware. You can quote me on that.

Academics act like they are important, but when something is academic it is meaningless. People say, 'It's academic, now let's get work done.'

My academic schedule is lighter this year because it's an Olympic year.

I had been writing for about twelve years. I knew pretty well how you could find things out, but I had never been trained in an academic way how to go about the research.

Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.

I've been at this for 40 years. And, as an academic, I've been content with relatively small audiences, with the thought that the audience I long for will find its way eventually to what I have written, provided that what I have written is good enough.

I like roles that are on the extreme ends of the spectrum, and there's special appeal in exploring these slightly forgotten plays that people might think of as subjects for academic term papers instead of live theater.

Quality afterschool programs provide safe, engaging and fun learning experiences to help children and youth develop their social, emotional, physical, cultural and academic skills.

With my academic achievement in high school I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores were not comparable to that of my classmates. And that's been shown by statistics, there are reasons for that - there are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action to try to balance out those effects.