Academia Quotations

I liked teaching, but the bureaucracy of academia and the petty intrigue... It wasn't a good fit. Once I admitted that myself, that I didn't like academia, I was ready to try TV.

What do you call a co-worker these days? Neither teammate nor confederate will do, and partner is too legalistic. The answer brought from academia to the political world by Henry Kissinger and now bandied in the boardroom is colleague. It has a nice upper-egalitarian feel, related to the good fellowship of collegial.

I wasn't tempted to go into academia for a second.

Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background.

I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable

I was frustrated with how academia tended to present feminist theory in disconnected or inaccessible ways. I wanted to try and bring a sociological feminist lens to the limited and limiting representations of women in the media and then share that with other young women of my generation. YouTube was the perfect medium.

A president aiming for 'Great' or 'Near Great' status must do more. He must give lots of interviews, make records accessible, and heap the flattery on academia - each of which Mr. Bush has signally failed to do.

Forcing companies to recruit away from the golf course might lead to the appointment of more women from NGOs and academia and medicine, all of whom are likely to understand such concepts as stewardship and sustainability much better than men picked from the usual hunting grounds.

It's hard to imagine anything more interesting than learning how we're woven into the enormous tapestry of existence. Where did our universe come from? How special is our world, and how special are we? We allocate tens of billions of dollars annually to NASA, NSF and academia in search of the answers.

These poor women in academia have to talk this silly language that nobody can understand in order to be accepted, they think.

Yeah, I am a guy working on physics outside of academia. But I'm nowhere near Einstein's caliber.

It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.

Ray Comfort's got a fabulous film. Oh boy, this is going to cause the halls of academia to have a few conversations around the cafeteria.

She (Olivo) called me the day before she left (for La Academia USA). She was so excited and her enthusiasm was contagious.

Now we have heard from academia ... we're going to have more of the seminar tomorrow, ... But I will listen most intently to see if anybody, anybody, repudiates, rejects, rebuts the facts that have been contained and will soon again be housed in these boxes.

Unless they break through the brass ceiling of academia by writing best-selling books, like Harold Bloom or Alan Dershowitz, or go to Washington to make policy like Henry Kissinger, college professors can only aspire to limited public recognition.

I was an outsider. I was the egghead from academia who got in because the rules had changed. While I looked for validation from my fellow contemporaries, I instead found jealousy and envy. I did not find team spirit. This led to dissatisfaction, an unease.

I think, as a student, it's very easy to get lost in academia and the rigor of school life in general. But it's important to remember that we're within something much bigger and to take time out to enjoy nature.

There is still a gap between academia and practice. I hope to put things in terminology that is accessible. Besides, if the practitioner can't make use of the information, then what have we done?

We want all students, white, black, middle-class, affluent, working class, international students, to think about why addressing these issues is important for the educational experience elite liberal arts colleges impart on all of their students. We want to raise questions and problem-solve about how academia as a whole can affect change in larger society.

The Time to Succeed Coalition brings together an unprecedented group of leaders from education and business, communities and academia to say that it is time to strike the shackles of an outdated school calendar from our disadvantaged schools.

I see the root of the education crisis in the primary and secondary schools. Academia is doing a fairly good job. The root of the problem is the teachers. Some are great. But too many of them are not capable of being good role models. They can't control the classes. They lose too much time trying to create a learning environment.

Ruby was fun to do because the Scottsbluff Public School Foundation was looking for a piece of artwork to honor all the valedictorians and academia in the school. It was my first chance to do a life-size piece.

This outstanding group of environmental experts, representing diverse perspectives and expertise, will help Wells Fargo bring a thoughtful and balanced approach to integrating environmental considerations into our business practices. They'll also be our eyes and ears in industry, academia and non-governmental organizations to make sure we anticipate emerging environmental issues in our communities and globally.

Academia was no different from the general population: A lot of people liked to look down their noses.

Academia smarts is just part of it. You need people skills, everything from knowing how to interact to conducting meetings.

The venerable Robert E. Lee has taken some vicious hits, as dishonest or misinformed advocates among political interest groups and in academia attempt to twist yesterday's America into a fantasy that might better service the political issues of today.

As a civil servant in charge of the government's Strategy Unit, I brought in many people from outside government, including academia and science, to work in the unit, dissecting and solving complex problems from GM crops to alcohol, nuclear proliferation to schools reform.

The LA Grid program represents IBM's commitment to building the next generation of technology talent across the U.S. and Latin America. The strong partnership between IBM and academia will play an important role creating jobs, driving innovative technology into the marketplace, and stimulating Florida's economy.

In academia in general, there's this push toward using comics as an educational tool.

They [Harvard academia] liked the poor, but didn't like the smell of the poor.

College professors have two bad traits. They are logical and they are easily flattered.

Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of specialisations and accords greater respect to those with greater expertise. With one exception: climate science.

Competition in academia is so vicious because the stakes are so small.

Most areas of intellectual life have discovered the virtues of speculation, and have embraced them wildly. In academia, speculation is usually dignified as theory.

A spectre is haunting Western academia (...), the spectre of the Cartesian subject.

Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love.

Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love; close enough on the surface but, to the non-sucker, not exactly the same thing.

I think if somebody is so set in their ways about what they feel about something - and you get this a lot in academia, of course, and also different sorts of journalism too - you're going to sweep under the carpet the facts that don't suit your thesis. And I think that happens quite a lot in the courtroom, for instance.

Instruction in academia did not emphasize what I thought of as essential points. I was interested in the broad range of interrelated connections within the physical sciences, but formal studies isolated each branch of science.” I feel that I have advantages greater than Da Vinci’s such as access to more information, materials, and methods.

THE GUYS IN THE OLD DAYS WHO BELIEVED THE EARTH WAS ROUND MUST HAVE HAD A VERY ROUGH TIME WITH ACADEMIA

It's not easy to make friends when you're an adult writer outside of academia, especially when you work alone in a little room for twelve hours a day, and so I wrote toward what I most longed for.

I could have seen myself going into academia, but I don't love it; I just like it.

Unless you plan on making academia your life, all you need to know about postmodernism is that its premises are fundamentally wrong.

In Washington, it's dog eat dog. In academia, it's exactly the opposite.

Well, I wanted to be a philosopher, which is the idlest occupation in the world. I wanted to be involved in abstract thought, but because of various problems with the authorities I wasn't able to pull that one off. A lifetime of idleness in academia would have really suited me. So I was thrown out, as it were. Other than that, there seemed no possible idle occupations, so writing . . . although writing isn't exactly idleness. There's an enormous tension between indolence and languor.