Academic Quotes - Page 19

• The music and the philosophy feed off of one another on a subconscious level, though I've never really integrated my academic teaching into songwriting. But what they have in common is that they're both ways to tap into the mysterious parts of our world.

  Steve Weinstein

  Philosophy, Teaching, Our World

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• If you let social activities take precedence over your academic activities, then you will soon lose your basketball activities.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Over You, Social

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• The rites of passage in the academic world are arcane and, in their own way, highly romantic, and the tensions and unplesantries of dissertations and final oral examinations are quickly forgotten in the wonderful moment of the sherry afterward, admission into a very old club, parties of celebration, doctoral gowns, academic rituals, and hearing for the first time "Dr.," rather than "Miss" Jamison.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Party, Missing, Examination

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• The audience creates its own personality, I've noticed, in the first five minutes. They will either be generous, funny, silly, withholding, academic, analytical, grudging. And I'm fascinated with how that gets constructed, because it happens right away.

  Laurie Anderson

  Silly, Personality, Firsts

  The Believer Interview, www.believermag.com. January 2012.

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• 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, Criteria

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I was so grateful to be independent of the academic establishment. I thought, how awful it would be to have my future hinge on such people and such decisions.

  Jane Jacobs

  Grateful, Independent, People

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• Although I went to college as a youth, I never considered it necessary to steep oneself in academic learning, in order to learn how to think. I welcome a fair and square, open and above-board fight on any subject, including this, but I despise a man who sneaks around under a cloak or cover of any society or clique to strike his blows.

  Luther Burbank

  Fighting, Blow, College

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• A large part of academic community is unthinkingly self-involved, producing reams of sterile writing - often consuming unbelievable amounts of public funds - and serving as an instruction manual for how to chase away readers and ignore historical insights.

  Gotz Aly

  Writing, Self, Community

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• For many years I had been deeply identified with thinking and the painful, heavy emotions that had accumulated inside. My thought activity was mostly negative, and my sense of identity was also mostly negative, although I tried hard to prove to myself and to the world that I was good enough by working very hard academically. But even after I had achieved academic success, I was happy for two weeks or three and then the depression and anxiety came back.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Thinking, Years, Two

  Source: jhaines6.wordpress.com

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• I decided to become a teacher because I thought it would be a great career where I could wear different hats. You're an academic one moment, and you're a psychologist the next moment, an athlete the next moment... when you are out on the playground or coaching...so it enables you to play different roles.

  Erik Weihenmayer

  Teacher, Athlete, Play

  Source: www.afb.org

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• I think people are surprised when I string two sentences together. But I had a fiercely academic upbringing.

  Charlie Day

  Thinking, Two, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I had my own insecurities, which a lot of my comedy would come from, about not being able to live up to their academic expectations. Acting out those insecurities was a way of confronting them, like, “Let me just lean into being a guy who can’t read or write.”

  Charlie Day

  Writing, Expectations, Guy

  Interview with Guillermo Del Toro, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2014.

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• Storytelling is how history is passed. It's what our ancestors did, it's what everybody's done. It has to come back into a story because otherwise, it's stuck in this book and it's boring and it's academic and I'm not against intelligence and I'm not against education, I don't want to be misunderstood, but we have tell the stories to our young people a little bit early and history gives us a lot of things.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Book, People, Giving

  Interview with Pierce Freelon, blackademics.org. April 2007.

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• Clearly, one does not have to give up being an academic, retreat from rigorous research, or renounce the importance of specialization in order to address major social issues. I don't think you give up theoretical rigor by writing in a way that addresses major social concerns and is at the same time accessible to wider informed general audiences.

  Henry Giroux

  Giving Up, Writing, Thinking

  "Higher Education Under Attack". Interview with C. Cryn Johannsen, www.truth-out.org. April 22, 2011.

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• There are, however, many challenges to Asian universities. First, academic freedom, in all senses, is much more critical to the success of a university than how much money is spent on infrastructure or on hiring big names. Faculty need to have the space to pursue the research that they are passionate about and the also need to have the freedom to express their opinions in the university, and in the society as a whole.

  Henry Rosovsky

  Academic Freedom, Names, Space

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• If we want to identify the great success of American research universities, and that success goes far beyond Harvard, we have to come back to the question of governance. Excellence requires a firewall between trusteeship, or government ministries, and the academic decision-making process. This American concept of shared governance wherein the faculty are engaged in running the university as part of a collaboration with the other stakeholders.

  Henry Rosovsky

  Running, Government, Decision

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Academic writing you have to get right. Fiction you have to get plausible. And there's a world of difference.

  Elliott Colla

  Writing, Differences, Fiction

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• There are certainly times in history where power associates itself closely with fields that we would call the humanities, like rulers surrounding themselves with philosophers and poets, or playwrights. We do not live in that moment, and the best way to gauge the proximity of an academic field to power is by salary.

  Elliott Colla

  Humanity, Salary, Gauges

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I want to see a New Story education, which is not only about intellectual knowledge - not only about measurement - not only about academic achievement. It is also about heart, feelings, emotions, relationship, love, compassion, generosity, beauty. All these values are part of the heart.

  Satish Kumar

  Heart, Compassion, Generosity

  "An Interview with Satish Kumar at the New Story Summit". Kosmos Interview, www.kosmosjournal.org. November 18, 2014.

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• Whether it's a professional, academic keeping people out by using certain mystifying language, or technologists presenting their work as incredibly complicated, no one can understand it (especially not "moms," who are always invoked as the ultimate know-nothings, which is incredibly insulting to a whole lot of people).

  Astra Taylor

  Mom, People, Insulting

  Source: therumpus.net

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• You don't see Los Angeles erecting a museum dedicated to the birth place of the Crips and the Bloods and the Mexican Mafia, with a special guided bus tour highlighting the rise of the crack trade, yet you can hop on a bus in Chicago tomorrow to see the famous locales of murders. I have to imagine there's some wonderful academic book on the sociology of this out there.

  Tod Goldberg

  Book, Museums, Blood

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The academic mind reflects infinity, and is full of light by the simple process of being shallow and standing still.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Simple, Light, Mind

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.354, Simon and Schuster

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• They [free market policies] were never based on solid empirical and theoretical foundations, and even as many of these policies were being pushed, academic economists were explaining the limitations of markets for instance, whenever information is imperfect, which is to say always.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Foundation, Information, Imperfect

  "Bleakonomics". www.nytimes.com. September 30, 2007.

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• With a weak and rotting core, you don't have much of a foreign policy. You're discounted at the negotiating table, economically and militarily. So when people ask what's the best course of action for the U.S.-China relationship, I can give you ten academic responses. But the reality is we need to rebuild our core.

  Jon Huntsman, Jr.

  Reality, People, Giving

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• 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, Used, Aspiration

  "V. S. Pritchett" by Paul Theroux, archive.nytimes.com. May 22, 1977.

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