Academic Quotes - Page 3

• 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

  Careers, Discipline, World

  "Emperor of the Edge". Interview with Christina Maslach, www.psychologytoday.com. September 1, 2000.

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

  Peter Straub

  Writing, Ambition, Fiction

  "PETER STRAUB: Connoisseur of Fear". Interview with Paula Guran, www.darkecho.com. June, 1997.

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• I had been writing for about twelve years. I knew pretty well how you could find things out, but I had never been trained in an academic way how to go about the research.

  David McCullough

  Writing, Years, Twelve

  Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov. 2003.

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• Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.

  Samuel Butler

  People, Common Sense, Atmosphere

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Samuel Butler's notebooks”

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• 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, Professors

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• I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.

  Manuel Puig

  Book, Literature, Study

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• You could mention my name in any hallway in any academic institution and you would have people foaming at the mouth.

  David Horowitz

  Names, People, Mouths

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• I don't accept the argument of people like David Horowitz that the government should impose some sort of predetermined political balance on academic research.

  Juan Cole

  Government, People, Political

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• I'm an artist, I'm not an academic folklorist.

  Terri Windling

  Artist

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• After my stellar first grade academic achievements, I continued to perform well in the city primary schools - except for penmanship, which was not my forte.

  Vernon L. Smith

  School, Cities, Achievement

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

  Dan Farmer

  Mass Destruction, Views, Point Of View

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

  Albert Ellis

  Done, Members, Establishment

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• Academics act like they are important, but when something is academic it is meaningless. People say, 'It's academic, now let's get work done.

  Evan Sayet

  People, Important, Done

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• Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• No one can take it away from you.

  B. B. King

  Education, Teacher, Knowledge

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• I also believe that academic freedom should protect the right of a professor or student to advocate Marxism, socialism, communism, or any other minority viewpoint - no matter how distasteful to the majority, provided...

  Richard M. Nixon

  Believe, Academic Freedom, Viewpoints

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• My time at Wofford was very dear to me. I chose to go there because the academics were so strong. I could have gone somewhere a little more local, but I wanted the academic challenges Wofford had to offer. It worked out pretty well for me obviously.

  Brenda Jackson

  Strong, Challenges, Gone

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• You know lots of criticism is written by characters who are very academic and think it is a sign you are worthless if you make jokes or kid or even clown. I wouldn't kid Our Lord if he was on the cross. But I would attempt a joke with him if I ran into him chasing the money changers out of the temple.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Character, Kids, Thinking

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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• The most important aspect of freedom of speech is freedom to learn. All education is a continuous dialogue - questions and answers that pursue every problem on the horizon. That is the essence of academic freedom.

  William O. Douglas

  Graduation, Essence, Academic Freedom

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• Ward Churchill might be more valuable to the opponents of the academic left employed than unemployed. Above all, he can serve as a living window into the intellectual, moral, and political bankruptcy of the left.

  Mort Kondracke

  Political, Intellectual, Opponents

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• If one is interested in the relations between fields which, according to customary academic divisions, belong to different departments, then he will not be welcomed as a builder of bridges, as he might have expected, but will rather be regarded by both sides as an outsider and troublesome intruder.

  Rudolf Carnap

  Bridges, Different, Division

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• There will have to be rigid and iron discipline before we achieve anything great and enduring, and that discipline will not come by mere academic argument and appeal to reason and logic. Discipline is learnt in the school of adversity.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  School, Adversity, Iron

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• My whole academic career was totally out of Jewish anxiety, and issues surrounding achievement and adequacy.

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  Ram Dass

  Careers, Issues, Achievement

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• Academic chairs are many, but wise and noble teachers are few; lecture-rooms are numerous and large, but the number of young people who genuinely thirst after truth and justice is small

  Albert Einstein

  Wise, Teacher, Numbers

  Albert Einstein (2011). “The World As I See It”, p.15, Open Road Media

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• As a matter of fact student riots of one sort or another, protests against the order that is, kicks against college and university management indicate a healthy growth and a normal functioning of the academic mind.

  William Allen White

  College, Order, Healthy

  "Student Riots", editorial in "The Emporia (Kansas) Gazette" (April 8, 1932); reported in "Forty Years on Main Street" compiled by Russell H. Fitzgibbon, (p. 331), 1937.

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