#academic

In terms of individuals who actually inspired me, very few of the academic people that I had access to had that power over me. Maybe it's simply because I wasn't that committed to geometry. ↗

— Twyla Tharp

#access #actually #because #committed #few

There is much more to schools than buildings. There are academic activities, how it reaches the community and its proximity to other programs. ↗

— John Warner

#activities #buildings #community #how #more

Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#academics #body #book #consumes #each

Academic success depends on research and publications. ↗

— Philip Zimbardo

#depends #publications #research #success

I am successful because of my brains and my guts, put together, and I don't need some fancy-ass degree from a bunch of sweater-vest-wearing pricks who haven't gotten laid since Bush Senior was president... Do you know who studies sociology? People who would rather observe life than live it. ↗

— Erin McCarthy

#brains #guts #intelligence #sociology #life

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

#academic #account #cell #cell phone #children

Writing about dead white males seems to be out of favor among academics. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#academics #among #dead #favor #males

At age 11 in 1960, I moved to an academic state secondary school, Harrow County Grammar School for Boys. ↗

— Paul Nurse

#age #county #grammar #grammar school #i

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

#always #aspirations #both #comfortably #efforts

This possibility bothered me as I thought it was not advisable to remain in one academic environment, and the long dark winters in Edinburgh could be rather dismal. ↗

— Paul Nurse

#advisable #bothered #could #dark #dismal