Quotes About Academic

I wanted to be a novelist from a very early age - 11 or 12 - but I don't think I ever thought I would write historical fiction. I never thought I might write academic history because I simply wasn't good enough!

I was writing from a very, very early age. My father used to write. He died early, and my mother was a schoolteacher, so my academic background from childhood is a strong one, a good one.

After I graduated, I carried on with my academic work, via grants but I often had a market stall on Camden Market selling hand-painted silk to make some cash.

I was a huge bookworm, total nerd, so I was a victim in middle school. I was in three academic clubs, so I was an easy target.

Measurement and categorization are, of course, fundamental to any scientific endeavor, but the implications of being able to identify psychopaths are as much practical as academic. To put it simply, if we can't spot them, we are doomed to be their victims, both as individuals and as a society.

Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard.

The Vietnam War was causing people to get drafted; I had received a deferment to finish my undergraduate education, and in order to continue to get a deferment, you had to go to graduate school.

There are those who would draw a sharp line between power politics and a principled foreign policy based on values. This polarized view - you are either a realist or devoted to norms and values - may be just fine in academic debate, but it is a disaster for American foreign policy. American values are universal.

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

In academia, I discovered that issues and insights, commonplace among the scholars, are viewed as highly controversial and even as 'heresy' in the churches.

The psychology degree comes from the fact that I was a chemistry major and they kept wanting the correct answer, whereas in psychology you basically write whatever you want, and chances are you get a B.

You're his dead partner's little 'poster child for rehabilitation,' like the judge said. You, Sophie-Lily, are Tom Bradley's deviant little devil wife in a petri dish. He's been keeping his academic eye on you all this time.

In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal.

One of the most common problems encountered among the students I counsel is biting off too large a topic or question for their dissertation. Don't feel like you're cheating or slacking off if you end up reducing the size of your project.

the academic world, the intellectual world, where always to be antagonizing people and challenging whatever they said was apparently looked on with admiration.

The professors are always schlepping in Swift to defend some farsbtunkeneh nobody.

I particularly loved the adjective bookish, which I found other people used about as often as ramrod or chum or teetotaler.

show him the door a year early, the administration concocts an academic record

Studies consistently show that when a school requires its students to wear school uniforms, or even just has a dress code, grades rise and violence declines.

My mother and my father divorced during the time that my father was getting his Ph.D. at Tulane.

My family are quite academic, and I was set to study economics and politics at university.

The works of John Stuart Mill, Herbert Spencer, and Karl Marx had been forbidden. Students' libraries and clubs had been closed; and informers had been planted in the lecture halls. Entry fees had been raised fivefold to bar academic education to children of poor parents.

So stark were the results that the authors do something rare in academic papers: They offer specific, practical advice. "[A]n important takeaway from our study for corporate executives is that communications with investors, and probably other critical managerial decisions and negotiations, should be conducted earlier in the day.

later start time high school graduation rates increased by more than 11 percent