Academic Quotes (244 quotes)

Picture of quotation author Mark Zuckerberg
„I look at Google and think they have a strong academic culture. Elegant solutions to complex problems.“
― Mark Zuckerberg ―
Picture of quotation author Philip Zimbardo
„Careers in virtually all academic disciplines are fostered by being a superstar who knows more about one subject than anyone else in the world.“
― Philip Zimbardo ―
Picture of quotation author Philip Zimbardo
„Academic success depends on research and publications.“
― Philip Zimbardo ―
Picture of quotation author Eliezer Yudkowsky
„Though I have friends aplenty in academia, I don't operate within the academic system myself.“
Picture of quotation author Toby Young
„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 ―
Picture of quotation author Loretta Young
„In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal.“
― Loretta Young ―
Picture of quotation author Terri Windling
„I'm an artist, I'm not an academic folklorist.“
― Terri Windling ―
Picture of quotation author Rebel Wilson
„As a kid, I never thought I'd be an actress. Never, ever, ever, no way. I was really shy - bordering on social disorder shy - and I was really academic.“
― Rebel Wilson ―
Picture of quotation author George Will
„Children who open their lunchboxes and find mothers' handwritten notes telling them how amazingly bright they are tend to falter when they encounter academic difficulties.“
― George Will ―
Picture of quotation author George Will
„A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible 'lifestyles' turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind.“
― George Will ―
Picture of quotation author George M. Whitesides
„Simplicity, for reasons that are a little bit obscure, is almost not pursued, at least in the academic world.“
Picture of quotation author George M. Whitesides
„We academics - I am an academic - we love complexity. You can write papers about complexity, and the nice thing about complexity is it's fundamentally intractable in many ways, so you're not responsible for outcomes.“
Picture of quotation author Raquel Welch
„My father came from a country called Bolivia. He was of Spanish descent. I never went to Bolivia until I was 60 years old, but apparently when he was 17, he had already planned his entire academic curriculum so that he could graduate high school and enter college in the United States. That's how much he wanted to come to this country.“
― Raquel Welch ―
Picture of quotation author Kerry Washington
„I've always been a writer because I've always been a student. My mom's a retired professor, so I come from a very academic background. I love writing, you know?“
Picture of quotation author John Warner
„There is much more to schools than buildings. There are academic activities, how it reaches the community and its proximity to other programs.“
― John Warner ―
Picture of quotation author Richard Wall
„Academic sociologists have been trained to conceive of their discipline - sociology - as the scientific study of society, and to remit to the sister discipline of psychology the study of individuals.“
― Richard Wall ―
Picture of quotation author Vivek Wadhwa
„I became an academic so that I could share my knowledge and experience with students.“
― Vivek Wadhwa ―
Picture of quotation author Vivek Wadhwa
„After my health suffered due to the stress of running my second company, I had to switch careers. But I still didn't want to go back to the corporate world. So I became an academic.“
― Vivek Wadhwa ―
Picture of quotation author Sarah Vowell
„I didn't come from any kind of academic background, but I lived in a college town and I knew people who weren't without pretense. There was this idea in the town that if something was European it would be good.“
― Sarah Vowell ―
Picture of quotation author John Updike
„John Barth, I think, was really a writer of my own age and somewhat of my own temperament, although his books are very different from mine, and he has been a spokesman for the very ambitious, long, rather academic novel. But I don't think that what he is saying, so far as I understand it, is so very different from what I'm saying.“
― John Updike ―

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