Academic famous quotes

I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
-- Ad Reinhardt

#Opposites #Academic #Marketplace

As an academic, this was not the lifestyle I had planned for myself. Now I see myself everywhere.
-- Ahmet Davutoglu

#Academic #Lifestyle

I'm a commercial person, not an academic.
-- Alan Sugar

#Academic #Persons

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

#Done #Academic #Members

I have not had any serious non-academic job.
-- Amartya Sen

#Jobs #Serious #Academic

If you steal from one book you are condemned as a plagiarist, but if you steal from ten books you are considered a scholar, and if you steal from thirty or forty books, a distinguished scholar.
-- Amos Oz

#Book #Stealing #Academic

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

#Kind #Biology #Academic

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.
-- Bernice Johnson Reagon

#Impact #Environment #Academic

To overcome the academic prose you have first to overcome the academic pose,
-- C. Wright Mills

#Overcoming #Firsts #Academic

Academic Marxists, with their elitist sense of superiority to popular taste, are the biggest snobs in America.
-- Camille Paglia

#America #Taste #Academic

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

#Writing #Style #Academic

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

#Views #Academic #Destruction

I'm an academic. It's publish or perish.
-- Daniel J. Bernstein

#Academic #Publish

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

#Mold #Realization #Academic

I have no academic qualifications whatsoever.
-- David Irving

#Academic #Qualifications

I was born to a Nigerian dad and a Kenyan mom, and coming to the States was really academic.
-- Dayo Okeniyi

#Mom #Dad #Academic

I was always more of an academic than a jock.
-- Edwin Moses

#Jocks #Academic

My father was an academic, an eccentric. He was a lecturer.
-- Elizabeth McGovern

#Father #Eccentric #Academic

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.
-- Elliott Erwitt

#Photography #Nonsense #Academic

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.
-- Elliott Erwitt

#Photography #Care #Academic

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

#Festivals #Academic #Modern

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

#Academic #Used #Method

I had this habit of an academic of answering the question. I should have fobbed it off.
-- John Hewson

#Academic #Habit #Should

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

#Party #Class #Academic

I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have.
-- Kate Moss

#School #Kind #Academic

Human intelligence is richer and more dynamic than we have been led to believe by formal academic education.
-- Ken Robinson

#Educational #Believe #Academic

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

#Art #Academic

Life without music is unthinkable. Life without music is academic. That is why my contact with music is a total embrace.
-- Leonard Bernstein

#Academic #Embrace #Music Is

Life without music is meaningless, music without life is academic.
-- Leonard Bernstein

#Life Is #Academic #Music Is

Podcasting might be thought of as a form of academic gift
-- Les Back

#Might #Academic #Form

The trailblazers in human, academic, scientific and religious freedom have always been nonconformists.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

#Religious #Academic #Humans

I've always been more inclined to go out to work than carry on with academic studies.
-- Michael Fassbender

#Study #Academic

To be a writer you have to write -- and no academic degree is going to do the writing for you.
-- Michelle Richmond

#Writing #Degrees #Academic

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

#Use #Academic #Limitation

I'm not an academic, but I've always loved poetry since I've been small.
-- Naveen Andrews

#Academic

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

#Mit #Academic #Higher

Academic staff rather enjoy coming to conclusions, but they don't like coming to decisions at all.
-- Noel Annan, Baron Annan

#Decision #Statistics #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.
-- Paul Ormerod

#Advancement #Obstacles #Academic

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
-- Pete Rozelle

#Player #Thinking #Academic

There's some pretty good academic research that suggest that what Americans don't like is losing.
-- Peter Bergen

#Research #Losing #Academic

In academic life you seek to state absolute truths; in politics you seek to accommodate truth to the facts around you.
-- Pierre Trudeau

#Politics #Facts #Academic

Success in life does not necessarily originate with academic success.
-- Robert Sternberg

#Doe #Success In Life #Academic

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.
-- Sarah Waters

#Novelists #Academic #Rate

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

#Years #Schedules #Academic

I served the famous professors and scholars, and eventually they learned that the Reverend Moon is superior to them. Even Nobel laureate academics who thought they were at the center of knowledge are as nothing in front of me.
-- Sun Myung Moon

#Moon #Academic #Fame

I'm an artist, I'm not an academic folklorist.
-- Terri Windling

#Artist #Academic

I tried being a mechanic and I tried catering, but I realized I had even less aptitude for semi-skilled labour than for academic work.
-- Toby Young

#Aptitude #Academic #Mechanic

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.
-- V. S. Pritchett

#People #Academic #Used

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!
-- William Bernbach

#Design #Advertising #Academic

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

#Successful #Academic #Colleagues

I don't approach my writing or my work from an academic or analytical point of view. I do it for myself.
-- Chath Piersath

#Writing #Views #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.
-- Cody Wilson

#People #Academic #Trump

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

#Rocks #Sides #Academic

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.
-- Gotz Aly

#Book #Objectivity #Academic

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.
-- Joel McIver

#Style #Way #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.
-- Julian Young

#Philosophy #Mean #Academic

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.
-- Justin Menkes

#Common #Academic #Misconception

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.'
-- Larry Cuban

#Achievement #Internet #Academic

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

#Speech #Academic #Institutions

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.
-- Paul Lansky

#Jobs #Twenties #Academic

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.
-- Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey

#Physicians #Realization #Academic

Academic theology is false.
-- Alexander Schmemann

#Academic #Theology

I really never thought I would be an actor professionally. I was very academic and was like, "That's so irresponsible. I would never do that." And now, here I am.
-- Andrea Savage

#Academic

I'm not an academic; I'm just a bookish Joe who gets passionate about certain writers and suddenly wants to read everything they've ever written and find out why they wrote it.
-- Blake Bailey

#Passionate #Want #Academic

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.
-- Nevill Drury

#Doubt #World #Academic

Sociologists are those academic accountants who think that truth can be shaken from an abacus.
-- Peter S. Prescott

#Thinking #Academic #Abacus

First fulfill your academic obligations and then you will have the right to call yourself a leader of the left.
-- Salvador Allende

#Leader #Firsts #Academic