258 Academic Quotes for You to Enjoy

I do belong to the club which doesn't see a distinction between academic history and popular history. Norman Davies

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I don't see why a book shouldn't be intellectually sound, entertaining, and fun to read. Historians who write academic history, which is unreadable, are basically wasting their time. Norman Davies

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

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In fact I was slightly badly behaved at school and got in trouble. I would get a bee in my bonnet about something I thought wasn't right, and I would ape about too, to make everybody laugh. That was my way through my girls' school, because I wasn't very academic. Olivia Colman

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I just look back at my time in college and think about how much my community activism and my work in neighborhoods really informed my actual academic career and beyond... It can provide a way better learning than the traditional classroom setting. Opal Tometi

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There should be more interaction and more confidence building between our various academic institutions just like how there needs to be a confidence building between industry and academics. Pallam Raju

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What passes for political realism may make for lively academic debates. But it often functions, ironically, as a tool of social control, rendering us passive with an analysis that overwhelms and paralyzes us. Parker Palmer

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By that time I was hooked on a career in academic research instead of one in the pharmaceutical industry that I had originally considered in deciding to get a PhD. Paul Berg

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

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My parents were neither wealthy nor academic, but we lived comfortably and they were always extremely supportive of my academic efforts and aspirations, both at school and university. Paul Nurse

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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

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Just as an individual's ability to delay gratification at a young age is a powerful predictor of future academic and professional achievement, discipline is also central to the long-run economic health of nations. Peter Blair Henry

I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time. Peter Straub

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Careers in virtually all academic disciplines are fostered by being a superstar who knows more about one subject than anyone else in the world. Philip Zimbardo

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For any young people looking for job opportunities, good grades and academic results are important, but what is more important may be showing you are someone who has the drive and capability and can fit in the company culture. Punit Renjen

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My tryst with theatre began in 1968, after the last day of school in that academic year. Radha Ravi

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My father came from a country called Bolivia. He was of Spanish descent. I never went to Bolivia until I was 60 years old, but apparently when he was 17, he had already planned his entire academic curriculum so that he could graduate high school and enter college in the United States. That's how much he wanted to come to this country. Raquel Welch

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I wasn't an extroverted kid. I was very academic and very introverted. Rebel Wilson

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I was reluctant to start the company that would become Lytro, primarily due to my academic background. Ren Ng

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When I turned 15, I left school having failed to make the minimum grade. With little direction I enlisted at the local culinary school. Here the academic demands were less rigorous. Rene Redzepi

I was pretty dead set against ever writing an academic novel. It's always been my view that there are already more than enough academic novels and that most of them aren't any good. Most of them are self-conscious and bitter, the work of people who want to settle grudges. Richard Russo

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My dad wanted me to go down a more academic route. He is very much about sticking to the rule book and sticking to the blueprint of a successful career. Rita Ora

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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. Rob James-Collier

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