Best 143 quotes in «academic quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

[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 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 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.

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

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.

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

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 tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Podcasting might be thought of as a form of academic gift

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

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.

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.

Programming is legitimate and necessary academic endeavour.

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

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

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

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

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

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.