Quotes About Academics

Academics with money, or "generational wealth," as her dad calls it. And when he says it, he laughs, because everyone knows that professors don't make a ton of money from teaching.

I love the escape. Academics aren't supposed to say that, but it's true. I love to dig into somebody else's vision, nightmare, utopia, whatever. I love how books put a dent in our egos— turns out we're not the first sentient generation on the planet after all. Other people have been just as perspective, just as worked up, about the same damn human problems we face.

Life among academics had taught me that a well-expressed opinion is usually better than a badly expressed fact, so far as professional advancement goes.

Life among academics had taught me that a well-expressed opinion is usually better than a badly expressed fact

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It should be easier for athletes to be students.

My entry into films was forced, and I always had an affinity towards academics. Having said that, it is the artiste within that urged me to say yes to acting.

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

I never say no to any event that is associated with education.

Latin was not a hard topic at all compared to romance, from what I could see.

would rather watch a ballet than go to school.

You know there is a problem with the education system when you realize that out of the 3 R's only one begins with an R.

Academics were important to my parents, as immigrants. Education is where it all begins.

Do I think I'm under-educated? Academically, absolutely. I never took any exams, no O- or A-levels.

In school, I was good in academics and extracurricular activities. I even topped the state in French in my Std 12 exams.

Coming from a family who put a lot of emphasis on academics, I always thought I was going to be a lawyer.

I wasn't academically successful. And maybe I've spent a lot of my career trying to make up for that.

Experience maketh an artist, not books or academics.

I majored in sports management, and then I went to law school for sports law.

Here we see how the plantation, which does not create employment for its inhabitants, nevertheless does provide stable employment to a whole class of academics, social workers and bureaucrats. The employment is stable because the plantation is permanent; there are no plans for it to ever be dismantled. The "war against poverty" is a perpetual fight in which poverty always wins because the game is rigged and the combatants are not fighting to win, only to hold the line.

Perhaps because my father never got a college degree himself, he continued to view people who had one with a respect that bordered on awe. In most cases they didn't deserve it. My father could run circles around most academics and he would have done very well in college, if he'd been able to go.

Horror stories like this — and the issue of Leningrad cannibalism as a whole — could not be talked about openly during the Soviet period. Such an admission of the breakdown of society was considered demoralizing. Only in 2002 were NKVD files opened so academics could discover the gruesome statistical realities of person-eating.

Those academics books that makes you feel like you ain't good enough, they were written by a human being like you. You not stupid for failing, you just not understanding someone else's point of view and it is normal not to understand someone's point of view

I went to a football school, which meant that I went to a university that served up education and was simultaneously operating a sports franchise.