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Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them. -- Robert Kiyosaki
It's too much to expect in an academic setting that we should all agree, but it is not too much to expect discipline and unvarying civility. -- John Howard
Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes. -- Knute Rockne
It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are entirely moral questions about which science cannot decide. -- Friedrich August von Hayek
Academic theology is false. -- Alexander Schmemann
Academic success depends on research and publications. -- Philip Zimbardo
I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace. -- Ad Reinhardt
If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic! -- William Bernbach
I was always more of an academic than a jock. -- Edwin Moses
I was interested in implements of mass destruction - from an academic point of view. -- Dan Farmer
Academic staff rather enjoy coming to conclusions, but they don't like coming to decisions at all. -- Noel Annan, Baron Annan
Academic Marxism is a fantasy world, and unctuous compassion-sweepstakes, into which real workers or peasants never penetrate. -- Camille Paglia
At age 11 in 1960, I moved to an academic state secondary school, Harrow County Grammar School for Boys. -- Paul Nurse
In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal. -- Loretta Young
Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them. -- Samuel Butler
Academic Marxists, with their elitist sense of superiority to popular taste, are the biggest snobs in America. -- Camille Paglia
The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all. -- Gavin Bryars
An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another. -- Mason Cooley
Academic failure contributes to poverty and poor health and undermines workforce productivity in ways that harm the entire society. -- Anthony Biglan
Academic writing you have to get right. Fiction you have to get plausible. And there's a world of difference. -- Elliott Colla
The job in Wisconsin was the first genuine offer of an academic job in a university which I received. -- Stephen Cole Kleene
The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department. -- Thomas Sowell
Academics act like they are important, but when something is academic it is meaningless. People say, 'It's academic, now let's get work done. -- Evan Sayet
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
Designs that have a whiff of complex impenetrability tends to suggest big, complicated ideas. Academic writing tends to work the same way, I understand. -- Michael Bierut
Women's studies is a comfy, chummy morass of unchallenged groupthink . It is, with rare exception, totally unscholarly. Academic feminists have silenced men and dissenting women. -- Camille Paglia
An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providing alternative opportunities to reward the skills of children who learn differently. -- Gavin Newsom
Academic freedom is being lost by a great many people who dare to challenge Darwinism. That's a terrifying situation. That's contrary to the principles of science. -- Ben Stein
Academic training in beauty is a sham. We have been so deceived, but so well deceived that we can scarcely get back even a shadow of the truth. -- Pablo Picasso
Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things read in books. -- Elbert Hubbard
Academic disciplines are subject to being overtaken by attacks of "knowingness"- a state of mind and soul that prevents shudders of awe and makes one immune to enthusiasm. -- Richard Rorty
Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known. This was the sound conclusion of the Academic sceptics, who were the least surly of philosophers. -- Desiderius Erasmus
To become an academic expert takes years of studying. Academic experts are experts in how and what others have done. They use case studies and observation to understand a subject. -- Simon Sinek
I came out of the Civil Rights Movement, and I had a different kind of focus than most people who have just the academic background as their primary training experience -- Bernice Johnson Reagon
I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have. -- Kate Moss
My knowledge of science came from being with Carl, not from formal academic training. Carl gave me a thrilling tutorial in science and math that lasted the 20 years we were together. -- Ann Druyan
Academic chairs are many, but wise and noble teachers are few; lecture-rooms are numerous and large, but the number of young people who genuinely thirst after truth and justice is small -- Albert Einstein
Academic achievement was something I'd always sought as a form of reward. Good grades pleased my parents, good grades pleased my teachers; you got them in order to sew up approval. -- Caroline Knapp
Academic sociologists have been trained to conceive of their discipline - sociology - as the scientific study of society, and to remit to the sister discipline of psychology the study of individuals. -- Richard Wall
Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information which is how I got a good job in journalism. -- Dave Barry
Also, I liked John Cage's music. I liked it for its craziness, the use of silence, the boldness-anything to get me away from writing about.. I don't know what academic poets write about. -- Kenneth Koch
The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower. -- Audre Lorde
Meanwhile, parents, students and teachers all report higher satisfaction with charter schools. People like them. They cost less money. They raise the academic achievement of poor kids. Go ahead, get a little enthused. -- Maggie Gallagher
I had been writing for about twelve years. I knew pretty well how you could find things out, but I had never been trained in an academic way how to go about the research. -- David McCullough
Academic work is one of those fields which contain a pearl so precious that it is worth while to sell all our possessions, keeping nothing for ourselves, in order to be able to acquire it. -- Simone Weil
Academic freedom really means freedom of inquiry. To be able to probe according to one's own interest, knowledge and conscience is the most important freedom the scholar has, and part of that process is to state its results. -- Donald Kennedy
Academic experts may not be good at doing what they are experts in themselves, but they are good at explaining the subject matter to others. They write books, teach courses and offer lessons and give steps others can follow. -- Simon Sinek
Academic scientists aren't generally interested in books for the public. So when one comes out, the authors can't expect much praise from scientists. My goal both as a singer and an instructor is to educate through provocation and entertainment. -- Greg Graffin
As we talk about the need to foster academic achievement, we must recognize and reward those who strive academically, just as we honor athletic champions. Meeting the President of the United States is just the honor we should bestow on our academic champions. -- Brad Sherman
The information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all. -- Bill Nye
I look at Google and think they have a strong academic culture. Elegant solutions to complex problems. -- Mark Zuckerberg
I enjoyed school, I was a bit of a square. I did very well in exams. I was quite lucky I was academic. -- Cat Deeley
Coming out as an atheist can cost an academic his or her job in some parts of America, and many choose to keep quiet about their atheism. -- Richard Dawkins
A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible 'lifestyles' turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind. -- George Will
The negative attitudes toward the genres - romance, science-fiction, westerns, suspense, etc. - are fallout from the academic world's long-standing fascination with existential philosophy and modern theories of psychology and sociology. -- Jayne Ann Krentz
No one ever sees the sleepless nights, the years of studying and 14-hour days earning your dues. I spent three years isolated in an academic environment to be the best actor I could. -- Kunal Nayyar
My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of acquaintances had gradually grown so large that it was only natural new friendships should grow out of it. -- Georg Brandes
When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful marriage this was, biology and anthropology. I was around 16 years old when I made this particular choice of academic pursuit. -- Donald Johanson
A high-speed connection is no more an essential civil right than 3G cell phone service or a Netflix account. Increasing competition and restoring academic excellence in abysmal public schools is far more of an imperative to minority children than handing them iPads. -- Michelle Malkin
One of the key elements of human behavior is, humans have a greater fear of loss than enjoyment of success. All the academic studies will show you that the fear of loss of capital is far greater than the enjoyment of gains. -- Laurence D. Fink
The world has today 546 nuclear plants generating electricity. Their experience is being continuously researched, and feedback should be provided to all. Nuclear scientists have to interact with the people of the nation, and academic institutions continuously update nuclear power generation technology and safety. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
A balanced diet and physical activity are vital to academic performance. A healthy diet has a direct link to increased cognitive function and memory skills, decreased absenteeism from school, and improved mood. These advantages can help students stay focused and complete their coursework. -- Matt Cartwright
The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in Heaven and Earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent. -- David Mamet
I've spent quality time in the aerospace community, with my service on two presidential commissions, but at heart, I'm an academic. Being an academic means I don't wield power over person, place or thing. I don't command armies; I don't lead labor unions. All I have is the power of thought. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
In the United States, one of the main topics of academic political science is the study of attitudes and policy and their correlation. The study of attitudes is reasonably easy in the United States: heavily-polled society, pretty serious and accurate polls, and policy you can see, and you can compare them. -- Noam Chomsky
To teach an academic subject is certainly not easy, but compared to coaching, it is. We can say 'two plus two is four' to every kid and be sure that we are right. But in coaching, we have to literally get to the soul of the people we are dealing with. -- Joe Paterno
I went to M.I.T. in the summer of 1951 as a 'C.L.E. Moore Instructor.' I had been an instructor at Princeton for one year after obtaining my degree in 1950. It seemed desirable more for personal and social reasons than academic ones to accept the higher-paying instructorship at M.I.T. -- John Forbes Nash, Jr.
I went to a strict elementary school with nuns, and uniforms that I'm pretty sure were made out of sandpaper. It was an academic, sports-oriented place. I liked to read, and wanted to act, and didn't try out for volleyball. I was weird. The other girls would dip my hair in ink and stuff. -- Zosia Mamet
I consistently encounter people in academic settings and scientists and journalists who feel that you can't say that anyone is wrong in any deep sense about morality, or with regard to what they value in life. I think this doubt about the application of science and reason to questions of value is really quite dangerous. -- Sam Harris
When we study Shakespeare on the page, for academic purposes, we may require all kinds of help. Generally, we read him in modern spelling and with modern punctuation, and with notes. But any poetry that is performed - from song lyric to tragic speech - must make its point, as it were, without reference back. -- James Fenton
Productivity - the amount of output delivered per hour of work in the economy - is often viewed as the engine of progress in modern capitalist economies. Output is everything. Time is money. The quest for increased productivity occupies reams of academic literature and haunts the waking hours of C.E.O.s and finance ministers. -- Tim Jackson
War is not an academic exercise. -- Scott Ritter
I have no academic qualifications whatsoever. -- David Irving
Programming is legitimate and necessary academic endeavour. -- Donald Knuth
I'm an academic. It's publish or perish. -- Daniel J. Bernstein
I'm a commercial person, not an academic. -- Alan Sugar
I have not had any serious non-academic job. -- Amartya Sen
I'm an artist, I'm not an academic folklorist. -- Terri Windling
If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic. -- William Bernbach
I'm not a clown but I'm not an academic either. -- Tom Verlaine
I don't believe in firing professors. They have academic freedom. -- Alan Dershowitz
Life without music is meaningless, music without life is academic. -- Leonard Bernstein
Success in life does not necessarily originate with academic success. -- Robert Sternberg
A theology without spirituality would be a sterile academic exercise. -- John Macquarrie
Podcasting might be thought of as a form of academic gift -- Les Back
In recent times, Surrealist painters have used descriptive illusionistic academic methods. -- Hans Arp
Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background. -- Paul Giamatti
It is essential to practice spiritual disciplines along with academic studies. -- Sai Baba
Perceived self-inefficacy predicts avoidance of academic activities whereas anxiety does not -- Albert Bandura
Nothing infuriates an academic more than a talented and successful colleague. -- William McKeen
My father was an academic, an eccentric. He was a lecturer. -- Elizabeth McGovern
I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time. -- Peter Straub
I am not built for academic writings. Action is my domain. -- Mahatma Gandhi
My academic schedule is lighter this year because it's an Olympic year. -- Sasha Cohen
Self-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent. -- Charles Duhigg
A rare academic (was) a man who knew what he didn't know. -- Tom Clancy
I'm trying to make music a sensual expression, not an academic experiment. -- Andrew Hill
I wasn't an extroverted kid. I was very academic and very introverted. -- Rebel Wilson
Numerous are the academic professors, but rare are wise and noble teachers. -- Albert Einstein
To create something new, knowledge is essentially required, but not academic degree. -- Rajib Lochan Dhibar
The academic life is wonderful. That's why people love to do research. -- Michael Marmot
Jazz is neither specific repertoire, nor academic exercise... but a way of life. -- Lester Bowie
Love of learning led to monasteries, which became the cradle of academic guilds. -- John Ortberg
The trailblazers in human, academic, scientific and religious freedom have always been nonconformists. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
To overcome the academic prose you have first to overcome the academic pose, -- C. Wright Mills
Mine is studying script and being very academic and trying to be important. -- Christoph Waltz
Free will, determinism, meaning, existence, etc. are academic problems, not problems in life. -- Marty Rubin
Some of my academic friends think I've fallen from a very special grace. -- A. Bartlett Giamatti
I'm not an academic, but I've always loved poetry since I've been small. -- Naveen Andrews
Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace. -- A. Bartlett Giamatti
Most academic economists know nothing of economy. In fact, they know little of anything. -- Edward Abbey
And in most highly academic environments in the United States, no one fails anything. -- Paul Tough
The reason academic disputes are so vicious is that so little is at stake. -- Noam Chomsky
I love art, but I'm not an academic; I just like what I like. -- Lenora Crichlow
I wasn't an academic. I hated maths and science at school. I couldn't concentrate. -- Michelle Dockery
I want to prove you don't need to have academic syntax to be intelligent. -- Eddie Huang
Becoming a model was very counter-culture for my background, which is hyper-liberal, academic and feminist. -- Cameron Russell
I say I'm an academic: a professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins. And I write. -- Kay Redfield Jamison
There's some pretty good academic research that suggest that what Americans don't like is losing. -- Peter Bergen

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