Best 143 quotes in «academic quotes» category

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.

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.

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

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 was always more of an academic than a jock.

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 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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

Nobody in my family is in the show business, and none of my friends were. 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.

Kitsch generates pseudonovelty with no new insight into reality, or else does not concern itself at all with the new and produces its effects with more or less academic eclecticism.

Most academic economists know nothing of economy. In fact, they know little of anything.

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

My style is neither casual nor academic, it's somewhere in between. For me, that's the best way to be succinct and informative but still (I hope) at least a bit entertaining.

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

Numerous are the academic professors, but rare are wise and noble teachers.

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.

Programming is legitimate and necessary academic endeavour.

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.

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

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

Sovereignty and the right to rule cannot be conferred on anyone no matter who ... as a result of an academic discussion. Sovereignty is acquired by force and power and violence.

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

Podcasting might be thought of as a form of academic gift

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

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

The landscape in academic science is traditionally male-dominated. Women didn't always see themselves there - there was a lack of role models, a lack of champions. It really helped when the Prime Minister appointed a gender-balanced cabinet. That was well-received and people realized that, if the Prime Minister could do it, why can't there be equity other places?

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

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

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.

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

Then you have people coming up like Malcolm Bradbury, a relatively young writer who deals with the academic scene and deals with it, I think, brilliantly.

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.

The resources of a university, of a college, should not be wasted in merely academic pursuits.

The realization that you can't predict the future -- and mold it -- could only come as a shock to an academic.

The sad thing about Trump is that everybody is secretly really relieved he got elected, of the people I know - the professional left and academic left.

There is no clear, commanding body of evidence that students' sustained use of multimedia machines, the Internet, word processing, spreadsheets and other popular applications has any impact on academic achievement.'

They [free market policies] were never based on solid empirical and theoretical foundations, and even as many of these policies were being pushed, academic economists were explaining the limitations of markets for instance, whenever information is imperfect, which is to say always.

Though knowledge itself increasingly ignores boundaries between fields, professors are apt to organize their pedagogy around the methods and history of their academic subculture rather than some coherent topic in the world.

To overcome the academic prose you have first to overcome the academic pose.

The trailblazers in human, academic, scientific and religious freedom have always been nonconformists.

This is a large part of the academic profession: to make up complex, subtle arguments that are childishly ridiculous but are enveloped in sufficient profundity that they take on a kind of plausibility.

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.