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Academic Quotes

It's too much to expect in an academic setting that we should all agree, but it is not too much to expect discipline and unvarying civility.

Discipline Too Much Civility Academic

I'm generalizing wildly, but academic books find safety in explanations that reduce the chaos of social life.

Life Safety Chaos Find Academic

Measurement and categorization are, of course, fundamental to any scientific endeavor, but the implications of being able to identify psychopaths are as much practical as academic. To put it simply, if we can't spot them, we are doomed to be their victims, both as individuals and as a society.

Society Endeavor Academic Measurement

In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal.

Education Others Academic Branches

I'm actually - believe it or not, for an academic - an aural learner.

Condoleezza Rice

Believe Academic Learner Actually

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

Writing Fiction Academic Began

I do belong to the club which doesn't see a distinction between academic history and popular history.

History Club See Academic Belong

When I turned 15, I left school having failed to make the minimum grade. With little direction I enlisted at the local culinary school. Here the academic demands were less rigorous.

School Direction Little Academic

Mum had regular mental tests with her specialist, but because of her academic background, she became brilliant at manipulating them.

Brilliant She Academic Mental Her

The PhD system is the real root of the evil of academic snobbery. People who have PhDs consider themselves a priesthood, and inventors generally don't have PhDs.

People Evil Real Academic System

Well, that was in 1995 when I resigned from my last academic job.

Job Academic Last Well Resigned

I'm not massively academic. I'm a commonsense person.

Person Academic Commonsense Massively

Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background.

Culture Academic Ivy Background

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.

School Lost Go Kind Never Academic

I was quite academic, quite geeky when I was a kid. I was more interested in going to school than I was in becoming a film star or something.

School More Kid Academic Star Going

I am an academic, and I have always made it clear that my ultimate home is in the realm of ideas.

Home I Am Ideas Always Academic Am

There are two types of collector, I think. There are those who are quite academic, and get into the archaeology of finding the earliest example of a particular idea. Then there are those interested in what's new.

Think Finding New Two Academic Get

I didn't do well at school, and I don't have lots of academic reference points.

School Academic Well Reference Lots

I support high academic standards. Period.

Support Standards High Academic

Like every other self-respecting academic, I'm distrustful of self-help books.

Academic Books Like Self-Help Every

McGeorge Bundy was a brilliant man who'd had a meteoric academic career and was the youngest man ever to be dean of the Harvard faculty. But he was also arrogant and looked upon all sorts of people and politicians as not to be taken all that seriously.

Man People Career Seriously Academic

There's definitely been a focus on the literary aspects of my music, and I always get a little cringey because I don't feel like I'm particularly literary. There's a sort of academic label that's put on me that seems inaccurate.

Music Focus Me Feel Always Academic

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

Clifford Geertz

Style Write Single Academic Some

It's probably indicative that I was destined for an academic career that I'm 6-5 and I lost the slam-dunk championship to somebody 5-8. I was a lot better at math.

Peter Blair Henry

Better Career Lost Academic Destined

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