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  • The more you learn, the less you fear. "Learn" not in the sense of academic study, but in the practical understanding of life. -- Julian Barnes
  • That I was not suited to commerce or academic study in no way proves that I should also be unfit to be a painter. -- Vincent Van Gogh
  • I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written. -- Manuel Puig
  • I've always been more inclined to go out to work than carry on with academic studies. -- Michael Fassbender
  • My parents are wonderful, practical, sensible people, and the expectation was that I would study something academic. -- Gemma Chan
  • Education never really interested me, to be fair. I mean, education does interest me, but academic school study is a different thing. I can't quite grasp that. -- Ed Speleers
  • Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other 'studies' was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these 'studies' are about propaganda rather than serious education. -- Thomas Sowell
  • 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
  • People used to laugh that academics would study Disney movies. There's nothing more important for academics to study, because they shape the minds of our children possibly more than any single thing. -- Joss Whedon
  • 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
  • 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
  • In more than 20 years I've spent studying the issue, I have yet to hear a convincing argument that college football has anything do with what is presumably the primary purpose of higher education: academics. -- H. G. Bissinger
  • I think it's always important for academics to study popular culture, even if the thing they are studying is idiotic. If it's successful or made a dent in culture, then it is worthy of study to find out why. -- Joss Whedon
  • I no longer have the terrible nightmares that I used to have. Mao had just died in 1976, and China began to open up. For the first time scholarships to go to the West to study were awarded on academic merit. -- Jung Chang
  • The advice I would give to girls from Eastern backgrounds who are interested in the arts is that it is always beneficial to get your academic studies out of the way before going into the competitive world of the arts. -- Nadia Ali
  • 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 first award that I recall having received was in the form of a scholarship when I was studying in the 5th standard. I was granted this scholarship for achieving academic excellence, and it continues to be one of the high points in my life. -- Pankaj Patel
  • When you home study, you get a better education. I basically got to teach myself. Being naturally able to make my own opinions about the schoolwork I had to deal with, instead of being instructed under the tutelage of the teacher, was really nice academically. -- Thora Birch
  • 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
  • When I was 13, I won a scholarship to boarding school. My parents let me choose whether to go, and I decided I wanted to. Afterwards, I went to Cambridge to study law - in a way, I was carrying the academic hopes of my family, as Mum and Dad left school at 14. -- Stephen Mangan
  • 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
  • I did study Shakespeare, that was sort of my thing; I got a Literature A-level, which is my only claim to academic fame. -- Paul McCartney
  • I like the idea of the museum world and the university-academic situation where artists talk to each other or where artists or art students study with artists. -- Ad Reinhardt
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