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Quotes About Academic

Nobody has ever disproved Sam Carey's work.
~ Neal Adams
I wasn't very academic at school, but the Wolsey Youth Theatre was the saving of me.
~ Noma Dumezweni
What saved me from total academic failure and overwhelming ennui, was my love of libraries and all they encompass.
~ Hilary Farr
There's something awful about Oxford, I think. It's such a little ghetto.
~ Geoff Dyer
What I like about Oxford is how small it is; it's really more of a big town than a city.
~ Samantha Shannon
This paper was one of my digressions into abstract economics.
~ William Vickrey
Lots of people working in cryptography have no deep concern with real application issues. They are trying to discover things clever enough to write papers about.
~ Whitfield Diffie
When I was working on my research project, I found out that all research papers I needed for work were paywalled. I was a student in Kazakhstan at the time and our university was not subscribed to anything.
~ Alexandra Elbakyan
I don't know if 1300 players could really participate in the selection of a commissioner, and I've never given it a great deal of thought. I think it's a logical point they could make, but it's only an academic one.
~ Pete Rozelle
The sheer amount of ideological conflicts playing out within the text hints at the fact that the writers were writing about a reality that could not be reduced to one description, a reality that was testified to better in the clash of perspectives than in the development of a single, finely honed one. The text was written not to be approached as an academic document detailing facts about the life of faith but rather as an invitation into the life of faith.
~ Peter Rollins
When Pascal wrote of the heart as having reasons that reason does not know, he was referring to a type of knowledge that is foreign to the academic disciplines and different from the type of knowledge we seek in daily life. He was referring to the knowledge of a transformation that could never be placed into words or experience and thus could never be objectified, dissected, and distanced from us.
~ Peter Rollins
In tenth and last place comes the conquest of the myth of the rapture of the cognitive person in recent academic research. Bruno Latour is the most important name here. He has also raised subversive demands in political theory for the reinclusion of experts. From
~ Peter Sloterdijk
Boys are 30 percent more likely than girls to drop out of school. In Canada, five boys drop out for every three girls. Girls outperform boys now at every level, from elementary school to graduate school.
~ Philip Zimbardo
Nietzsche's subtle, poetic, and entirely unsystemic attacks on academic style and thinking were predestined to be quoted out of context, and his pithy and often sarcastic observations could be put in the service of a wider assault on rationality itself.
~ Philipp Blom
As students grow more and more accustomed to assuming materialism and naturalism in their academic work, the concept of creation by God gradually tends to become less real to them. It is not so much that any single finding undermines their faith; rather, the day-to-day practice of thinking in naturalistic terms about academic subjects makes it awkward to think differently when it comes to religion.
~ Phillip E. Johnson
prophétique de la grande critique d'auteur et le ronron sacerdotal de la tradition scolaire ? Mais
~ Pierre Bourdieu
The first time I saw Douglas Sirk was in college. I didn't encounter him on the late, late, late show like a lot of people; people a little older than me, maybe. But I saw him already as someone to take special note of in an academic context in college. I was immediately in a state of visual splendor.
~ Todd Haynes
There are some stunning visual moments in 'Arrival' that are out of this world, but it's all on the earth, and it's about an academic, a woman that is dealing with a personal tragedy, but there's a circular view of time that makes things more complicated.
~ Johann Johannsson
A balanced diet and physical activity are vital to academic performance. A healthy diet has a direct link to increased cognitive function and memory skills, decreased absenteeism from school, and improved mood. These advantages can help students stay focused and complete their coursework.
~ Matt Cartwright
In the end, the humanities can only be defended by stressing how indispensable they are; and this means insisting on their vital role in the whole business of academic learning, rather than protesting that, like some poor relation, they don't cost much to be housed.
~ Terry Eagleton
When immortality becomes for us no longer a matter of academic discussion, but the most vital of all questions; we shall find our comfort where so many before us have found it, in the ancient words.
~ Henry Norris Russell
If I was writing about an academic or a more difficult person, I would use the Latinate vocabulary more, but I do think Anglo-saxon is the language of emotion.
~ Lydia Davis
Berklee played a huge role in shaping my music. On an academic level, I learned a lot about vocal technique and culture. Since my major was Music Production and Engineering, I got a good handle on the technical and creative aspects of making a record.
~ Sid Sriram
If someone chooses a vocational route, why do they not get the same respect in society as someone who just does a pure academic route?
~ Steph McGovern