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I once got to meet a man who many say is one of the most brilliant minds alive today. Ken Wilber is the most widely translated academic
— Vishen Lakhiani
Success in life does not necessarily originate with academic success.
— Robert Sternberg
Some people stay in the academic world just to avoid becoming self-aware. You can quote me on that.
— Michael McKean
A genius is someone who takes a complex thing and makes it look simple. An academic does the opposite.
— Robert Fanney
The resources of a university, of a college, should not be wasted in merely academic pursuits.
— Howard Zinn
I don't think academic writing ever was wonderful. However, science used to be much less specialized.
— Stephen Jay Gould
A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar.
— Carolyn G. Heilbrun
As an academic, this was not the lifestyle I had planned for myself. Now I see myself everywhere.
— Ahmet Davutoglu
Deep to me connotes intellectual rigor, not fashionable obscurity or the unnecessarily academic.
— Alex Payne
Academic writing you have to get right. Fiction you have to get plausible. And there's a world of difference.
— Elliott Colla
Life without music is meaningless, music without life is academic.
— Leonard Bernstein
I think the tradition of well-written history hasn't been squashed out of the academic world as much in Britain as it has in the United States.
— Adam Hochschild
My perspective on the academic world is very favorable. I did certain kinds of things that I could never have done otherwise.
— Paul Lansky
Academic library collections are designed to support critical thinking, skepticism about the known, and curiosity about the unknown.
— Wayne Bivens-Tatum
In both children and adults, there can be a hard-to-deny link between a robust sense of hope and either work productivity or academic achievement.
— Jeffrey Kluger
The information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all.
— Bill Nye
I love art, but I'm not an academic; I just like what I like.
— Lenora Crichlow
As is natural for an academic, when I want to learn about something, I volunteer to teach a course on the subject.
— Steven Weinberg
Becoming a model was very counter-culture for my background, which is hyper-liberal, academic and feminist.
— Cameron Russell
Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
— Samuel Butler
Academic Marxists, with their elitist sense of superiority to popular taste, are the biggest snobs in America.
— Camille Paglia
What on earth have a man's name, degree, academic position, and of all things, opinions, to do with whether a thing is true?
— Hugh Nibley
An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another.
— Mason Cooley
I didn't have a normal academic career. I never studied cinema. I learned from life.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
In the business world it's not what you know, it's who you know. In the academic world it's not who you know, it's whom you know.
— James C. Klagge
Those of us forged in the crucibles of difference know that survival is not an academic skill.
— Audre Lorde
Perceived self-inefficacy predicts avoidance of academic activities whereas anxiety does not
— Albert Bandura
I'm not a clown but I'm not an academic either.
— Tom Verlaine
Knowledge without know-how is sterile. We use the word academic in a pejorative sense to identify this limitation.
— Myron Tribus
Academic institutions in Britain have been infiltrated for years by dangerous theocratic fantasists. I should know: I was one of them.
— Maajid Nawaz
Such boycotts threaten academic speech and exchange, which is our solemn duty as academic institutions to protect.
— Molly Corbett Broad
The academic community has in it the biggest concentration of alarmists, cranks and extremists this side of the giggle house.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
I have not had any serious non-academic job.
— Amartya Sen
I look at Google and think they have a strong academic culture. Elegant solutions to complex problems.
— Mark Zuckerberg
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
Human intelligence is richer and more dynamic than we have been led to believe by formal academic education.
— Ken Robinson
MIT is governed by a second, even higher rule: the inalienable right of academic freedom.
— Nicholas Negroponte
We are more than role models for our students; we are leaders and teachers of both an academic curriculum and a social curriculum.
— Patricia Sequeira Belvel
I want parents to teach that academic intelligence is essential, but so is financial intelligence.
— Robert Kiyosaki
I was born to a Nigerian dad and a Kenyan mom, and coming to the States was really academic.
— Dayo Okeniyi
academic requirements, helping them navigate
— Leadership Case Studies
What? She won't graduate because she can't swim the length of a pool? Really? Is this a serious academic position for a serious academic place?
— Thomas Christopher Greene
If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic.
— William Bernbach
The job in Wisconsin was the first genuine offer of an academic job in a university which I received.
— Stephen Cole Kleene
The academic world was marching toward ever more specialized knowledge, expressed in ever more dense jargon.
— Michael Crichton
I would not be able to pen an academic and dry diatribe. I have too much talent for that.
— Theo Van Gogh
While academic abilities remain integral, it is the work ethics that form the soul of the business.
— Jamshyd Godrej
I am a vague, conjectural personality, more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
Life without music is unthinkable. Life without music is academic. That is why my contact with music is a total embrace.
— Leonard Bernstein
I knew I'd always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, 'Well, I'd rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate one'.
— Sarah Waters
I'm an academic. I teach at the university, and that's where I will go back to.
— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
At the university level, introversion predicts academic performance better than cognitive ability.
— Susan Cain
Never judge a student's skill on the bases of his academic success; you may never know that he could be tomorrow's Einstein.
— Srinivas Shenoy
I still have a purblind academic image to uphold. I can't afford to let reality get in the way of my opinions.
— George Olney
I like the word 'asinine' because I want to say something more academic than 'stupid, dimwitted, dumb-fuckery.
— Jayne Marlowe
Programming is legitimate and necessary academic endeavour.
— Donald Knuth
Writing in the first person helps to make clear the author's role in constructing rather than discovering the story/knowledge.
— Gayle Letherby
Academic intelligence offers virtually no preparation for the turmoil - or opportunity - life's vicissitudes bring.
— Daniel Goleman
I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
— Ad Reinhardt
I'm not an academic type in term of personality. I had my share of madness as a teenager.
— Lenny Abrahamson
All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification.
— Bruce Jackson
The myth of the detached manipulator and compliant crowd has, since the Twenties, also been abundantly re-echoed by academic students of mass suasion.
— Edward L. Bernays
I didn't want to be in a situation where I was broader than the boys, which I was, in the academic world.
— Betty Friedan
I want to ask heterosexual academic feminists to do some hard analytical and reflective work. To begin, I want to say to them:
— Marilyn Frye
Most academic economists know nothing of economy. In fact, they know little of anything.
— Edward Abbey
As an academic, what do you have? You have the quality of your work and the integrity with which you do it.
— Ezekiel Emanuel
Academic staff rather enjoy coming to conclusions, but they don't like coming to decisions at all.
— Noel Annan, Baron Annan
No special academic expertise is required for insight into the Orwellian use of language, only clear thinking and common sense.
— Peter Slezak
I'm instinctively cautious because I'm an academic.
— James Heckman
I am joining the government not from the academic position but from St. Petersburg city council.
— Anatoly Chubais
I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research ... for ways of augmenting story-telling.
— Malcolm Gladwell
These dons, so ponderous, so circuitous, , no sense of time. In a minute they'll be talking about the meaning of meaning.
— John Le Carre
If you're going to equalize the academic playing field, you've got to get the kids in early childhood programs.
— Paul Vallas
