Quotes About Academic

The wall at Le Philosophe is covered with French philosophers, and supposedly, if you are able to name all of them, they will pay for your meal. I was only able to identify Simone de Beauvoir, Sartre, Descartes and, I think, Foucault. And, I think, Luce Irigaray.

I'm a very creative person, but that side of me was suppressed because I was academic. I was depressed at school, and I didn't know why.

Choosing my career was always based on job satisfaction rather than financial security. I wanted to get a job in science; I enjoyed being a surgeon and I now enjoy being an academic and having a media career.

I was never particularly academic, so it was no great surprise when I failed my 11-plus and consequently went to Wibsey Secondary Modern. I did all right in English, history and music, which were the subjects that most interested me.

McWhorter claims that low black educational achievements are not the result of racism but of an attitude within the black community that academic achievement is a white thing and that blacks must reject such efforts in order to stay culturally black.

Men like Crawford mistrusted Keynes because his views were unconfused. Throughout his life Keynes produced unimpeachable facts and figures, clear analyses, direct solutions and trenchant practical advice all based on the nitty-gritty of his subject, which were discounted by officials, politicians and bankers who dismissed him as academic, theoretical, quixotic, impractical. To them his clarity seemed too good to be true.

There is no inconsistency in favouring Darwinism as an academic scientist while opposing it as a human being;

I nodded to him with the authority of a young academic approving a peasant.

The cripple gave him a look. 'I remember that just yesterday you told me I was a cretin and a fool and a disgrace to the memory of my ancestors.' 'Academic hyperbole.' Morg dismissed the complaint with the wave of one hand.'It was merely enthusiastic encouragement, I assure you.' 'Perhaps overenthusiastic would be a more accurate description' muttered the cripple.

but she'd purposefully turn in a paper late or miss an assignment so she'd fall closer to the middle.

The man was such an intellectual he was of almost no use.

My mom and dad put my brother and sister through university and they were very keen for us to have an academic background just to give us a chance.

You know what happiness is: 'Having a little more money than your colleagues.' And that's not so tough in academic life.

Printing money creates inflation, which weakens an economy. Unfortunately, this kind of common-sense thinking never seems to penetrate academic circles.

I have a daughter who is a sophomore in college and another who is in the 11th grade of high school.

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.

Life without music is meaningless, music without life is academic.

Life without music is unthinkable. Life without music is academic. That is why my contact with music is a total embrace.

While I am interested both in economics and in philosophy, the union of my interests in the two fields far exceeds their intersection.

It is as absurd to expect members of philosophy departments to be philosophers as it is to expect members of art departments to be artists.

I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy.

When academics claim a topic is obsolete, they mean merely they are tired of flogging it with their cliches.

In the mid-1960s, as hard to believe as it may be now, choosing to go into academic philosophy was not an imprudent career choice. There were lots of academic jobs in philosophy then.

I had four hundred thousand pages of continental philosophy and lit theory in my head. And by God, I was going to use it to prove to him that I was smarter than he was.