Best 143 quotes in «academic quotes» category

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.

Good photography is not about Zone Printing or any other Ansel Adams nonsense. It's just about seeing. You either see or you don't see. The rest is academic. Photography is simply a function of noticing things. Nothing more.

Complexity and profundity have been equated by the academic culture just as fame and significance have been conflated by the popular culture. Fame and significance have nothing to do with one another; and complexity and profundity have nothing to do with one another.

Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known. This was the sound conclusion of the Academic sceptics, who were the least surly of philosophers.

Harner has impeccable credentials, both as an academic and as a practicing shaman. Without doubt (since the recent death of Mircea Eliade) the world's leading authority on shamanism.

Honestly, I didn't have the patience for biology or history in an academic sense, but I always liked the kind of big questions.

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

I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically.

I am joining the government not from the academic position but from St. Petersburg city council.

I didn't have a normal academic career. I never studied cinema. I learned from life.

I came from an anxious, overly intense East Coast academic family. That was the way of our tribe.

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

I did a lot of my writing as though I was an academic, doing some piece of research as perfectly as possible.

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

If the students don't want to learn about evolution, they shouldn't be in the course. A biology course that teaches creationism is not a science course, it's a religion course. So the students demanding that creationism be given credence in that course are out of line and are denying the academic freedom of the professor. They are calling into question the scientific basis of the material that's being presented. And students are not in a position to do that.

If I had been a member of the academic establishment, I could have done other experiments.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

I drifted into a career in academic philosophy because I couldn't see anything outside the academy that looked to be anything other than drudgery. But I wouldn't say I 'became a philosopher' until an early mid-life crisis forced me to confront the fact that, while 'philosophy' means 'love of wisdom', and 'wisdom' is the knowledge of how to live well, the analytic philosophy in which I had been trained seemed to have nothing to do with life.

If you let social activities take precedence over your academic activities, then you will soon lose your basketball activities.

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.

I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time.

I have not had any serious non-academic job.

I knew Id always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, Well, Id rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate one.

I have no academic qualifications whatsoever.

I'm extremely interested in the Russian formalists and have been for many years. I'm more drawn to their writing, which is expressive and literary, than to writing which is extremely academic or jargon-ridden.

I'm an academic. I'm hardwired for a good debate.

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

[In my writing] I know that I have made a caricature out of [others' academic] theories [but] I think that caricatures are frequently good portraits.

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

I'm in a profession with a dismal success rate, in an academic field with a dismal hiring rate. And I don't write, really, about any of that - rather the institutional structures I've negotiated my way through, with healthy doses of luck, provide a breathing, parasitic glimpse into the bureaucratic monolith of the creative-degree machine.

In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.

I read reviews of critics I respect and feel I can learn something from. Right now there are a lot of bottom-feeder critics who just have access to a computer and don't necessarily have an academic or cinema background that I can detect, so I tend to ignore that and stay with the same top-tier critics that I've come to respect. I like reading a good review - it doesn't have to be favorable, but a well-thought-out one - because I very much appreciate the relationship of directors and critics.

In recent times, Surrealist painters have used descriptive illusionistic academic methods.

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 tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.

It's an academic book, and it's discussed under academic criteria. German historians cultivate so-called objectivity. They persuade themselves that they can switch off the subjective and therefore the unsettling.

I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went to university and studied English.

It's just seeing - at least the photography I care about. You either see or you don't see. The rest is academic. Anyone can learn how to develop. It's how you organize what you see into a picture.

I've been doing the academic side of music and the rock side of music in conjunction, basically, since I was in fourth grade.

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

I was always on the outside. It was the worst when I still wanted to be a professor, having to deal with colleagues and students, and having to listen to all that academic nonsense. It's really just a haze that keeps them busy. But all of that is fortunately over now, once and for all.

I was always more of an academic than a jock.

I think poets should work in the non-literary, non-academic world, get to know more than a workshop or a university.

It's not proper for a professor to go before a class and promote one party or another. That's not academic scholarship.

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.

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

I was interested in implements of mass destruction - from an academic point of view.

I went to a very academic school that actually - when I got to the point of wanting to pursue acting, they just had no idea how to do that, because all of their contacts were very academic.

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

Knowledge without know-how is sterile. We use the word academic in a pejorative sense to identify this limitation.