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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

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

I wasn't an extroverted kid. I was very academic and very introverted. — Rebel Wilson

Some people stay in the academic world just to avoid becoming self-aware. You can quote me on that. — Michael McKean

My mother wanted me to be a teacher. She had this vision of me walking across the quadrangle in an Oxford college wearing my academic gown. — Simon Callow

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

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

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

My academic schedule is lighter this year because it's an Olympic year. — Sasha Cohen

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

I was interested in implements of mass destruction - from an academic point of view. — Dan Farmer

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

It is essential to practice spiritual disciplines along with academic studies. — Sai Baba

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

If you think your child's academic studies are more important than the arts, think again. — Plato

And in most highly academic environments in the United States, no one fails anything. — Paul Tough

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

I come from an academic background. I wasn't raised to be into promoting myself. — Michael Heizer

Such boycotts threaten academic speech and exchange, which is our solemn duty as academic institutions to protect. — Molly Corbett Broad

I was reluctant to start the company that would become Lytro, primarily due to my academic background. — Ren Ng

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 still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went to university and studied English. — Jasper Fforde

I want parents to teach that academic intelligence is essential, but so is financial intelligence. — Robert Kiyosaki

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

I was born to a Nigerian dad and a Kenyan mom, and coming to the States was really academic. — Dayo Okeniyi

A distinction between renewable and not renewable energy is academic. — Carlo Rubbia

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. — John Howard

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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

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

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

Just so people know, the Silverlake Conservatory of Music is not at all about celebrity or fame or being a star. It's an academic music school. — Flea

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

Numerous are the academic professors, but rare are wise and noble teachers. — Albert Einstein

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 come out of an academic background, and I'm aware that what I'm doing is simultaneously research and fiction. I want to meet both those obligations. — Emma Donoghue

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

(Emerson's) aphorisms tend to be chicken soup for the academic soul or gobledygook of a man who prefers the sounds of words to their meanings. — Micah Mattix

Online learners need academic assistance technical assistance and cohort support. — Ormond Simpson

I graduated with an English degree and worked for awhile in academic publishing. — Mallory Ortberg

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

It is still an act of academic heresy to regard Egypt as the cradle of civilization and originator of Jewish and Christian religious traditions. — Michael Tsarion

I had to make a choice - recede into the academic world, or wade into politics. — Elizabeth Warren

I wanted to get everything right. I was super nerdy and academic. I got so much satisfaction out of getting good grades. — Tatiana Maslany