Academic Quotes

• Hence the vogue for double majors. It isn’t enough anymore to take a bunch of electives in addition to your primary focus, to roam freely across the academic fields, making serendipitous connections and discoveries, the way that American higher education was designed (uniquely, among the world’s systems) to allow you to do.

  

  William Deresiewicz
  • Education
  • Focus
  • Discovery

• To become an academic expert takes years of studying. Academic experts are experts in how and what others have done. They use case studies and observation to understand a subject.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Study
  • Cases
  • Subjects

• I don't consider myself attractive. I'm an academic, and in academia, people will write you off if you look younger.

  

  Alissa Nutting
  • Attractive
  • Academic
  • Write Off

• If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

  

  William Bernbach
  • Business
  • Design
  • Advertising

• There are two kinds of experts: academic experts and practical experts. One is not better than the other, but they are very different, and each offers very different value.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Different
  • Kind
  • Values

• I served the famous professors and scholars, and eventually they learned that the Reverend Moon is superior to them. Even Nobel laureate academics who thought they were at the center of knowledge are as nothing in front of me.

  

  Sun Myung Moon
  • Moon
  • Fame
  • Professors

• I believe I'm very conscious of exactly what I'm doing. I'm auditioning lines of dialogue, and I'm interrogating whether the lines would translate from Russian into English the right way. The English that results can perhaps seem somewhat more formal than colloquial, but not so formal as to feel academic.

  

  David Bezmozgis
  • Believe
  • Conscious
  • Dialogue

• One thing should be put firmly. Where people have commented on that novel [The Paper Men], they generally criticize the poor academic, Rick L. Tucker, who is savaged by the author, Wilfred Barclay. I don't think people have noticed that I have been far ruder about Barclay than I have been about Tucker. Tucker is a fool, but Barclay is a swine. The author really gets his come-uppance.

  

  William Golding
  • People
  • Men
  • Thinking

• 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

• My knowledge of science came from being with Carl, not from formal academic training. Carl gave me a thrilling tutorial in science and math that lasted the 20 years we were together.

  

  Ann Druyan
  • Together
  • Science
  • Knowledge

• I gloomily came to the ironic conclusion that if you take a highly intelligent person and give them the best possible, elite education, then you will most likely wind up with an academic who is completely impervious to reality.

  

  Halton Arp
  • Reality
  • Giving
  • Intelligent

• What we mustn't do is lose track of academic qualifications.

  

  Steve Taylor 16 Horsepower
  • Lose
  • Academic
  • Qualifications

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

  

  Michael McKean
  • World
  • Becoming
  • Academic

• Then you have people coming up like Malcolm Bradbury, a relatively young writer who deals with the academic scene and deals with it, I think, brilliantly.

  

  William Golding
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Scene

• I do have a very conscious desire not to be academic. I'm antiacademic. I hate jargon. I hate that sort of pretension. I am a person who [commits] breaches of decorum - not in private life, but in my work. They are part of my mode of operation. That kind of playfulness is part of my nature in general. The paradox that, in a way, to take something very seriously, you can't always be serious about it.

  

  William H. Gass
  • Hate
  • Desire
  • Kind

• One demonstrable effect this type of work can have is in its viral promulgation. Take Kathy Acker for example: her work exists mainly through academic channels. Students are exposed to her novels, and some read her, then, on their own, but some also go to grad school: teach her, write about her, keep her going.

  

  Davis Schneiderman
  • Writing
  • School
  • Going

• You have to understand, in the current academic climate, Intelligent Design is like leprosy or heresy in times past. To be tagged as an ID supporter is to become an academic pariah, and this holds even at so-called Christian institutions that place a premium on respectability at the expense of truth and the offense of the Gospel.

  

  William A. Dembski
  • Past
  • Christian
  • Design

• In my spiritual and academic journeys, I have learned that it is imperative for Christians to pursue truth at all costs.

  

  Daniel B. Wallace
  • Spiritual
  • Pursue
  • Costs

• I've often heard academics disparage non-academic writing in terms that suggest it could be a negative in the tenure process, irrespective of the quality of academic work under review.

  

  Daniel Drezner
  • Writing
  • Quality
  • Term

• Nobody wants to be a lawyer - it's hard work. But it was kind of my academic route.

  

  Vinny Guadagnino
  • Kind
  • Lawyer
  • Academic

• I enjoyed school, I was a bit of a square. I did very well in exams. I was quite lucky I was academic.

  

  Cat Deeley
  • School
  • Lucky
  • Squares

• Academic experts may not be good at doing what they are experts in themselves, but they are good at explaining the subject matter to others. They write books, teach courses and offer lessons and give steps others can follow.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Teach

• The job in Wisconsin was the first genuine offer of an academic job in a university which I received.

  

  Stephen Cole Kleene
  • Jobs
  • Firsts
  • University

• Not to pick a fight with any post-structuralist critics or anything like that, but a certain frame of mind can only tolerate that kind of academic stuff for [so long].

  

  Christian Rudder
  • Fight
  • Critics
  • Tolerate

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