#academic

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

#culinary #culinary school #demands #direction #enlisted

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

#commissioner #could #deal #given #great

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

#academics #act #done #get #important

Credit card companies pay college students generously to stand outside dining halls, dorms, and academic buildings and encourage their fellow students to apply for credit cards. ↗

— Louise Slaughter

#apply #buildings #card #cards #college

By the time I entered high school, I had forsaken academics altogether in favor of my burgeoning acting career. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#acting #altogether #burgeoning #by the time #career

I still feel glad to emphasize the duty, the defining characteristic of the pure scientist—probably to be found working in universities—who commit themselves absolutely to specialized goals, to seek the purest manifestation of any possible phenomenon that they are investigating, to create laboratories that are far more controlled than you would ever find in industry, and to ignore any constraints imposed by, as it were, realism. Further down the scale, people who understand and want to exploit results of basic science have to do a great deal more work to adapt and select the results, and combine the results from different sources, to produce something that is applicable, useful, and profitable on an acceptable time scale. ↗

— C.A.R. Hoare

#academic #research #theory #science

The rites of passage in the academic world are arcane and, in their own way, highly romantic, and the tensions and unplesantries of dissertations and final oral examinations are quickly forgotten in the wonderful moment of the sherry afterward, admission into a very old club, parties of celebration, doctoral gowns, academic rituals, and hearing for the first time "Dr.," rather than "Miss" Jamison. ↗

— Kay Redfield Jamison

#romantic

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

#become #beyond #conquer #crucial #define

I couldn't fight, and I wasn't particularly interested in the academic. So I started doing satiric bits in the school bathroom. Guys would cut class to come and see me. ↗

— Freddie Prinze

#bathroom #bits #class #come #cut

I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable. ↗

— Carlisle Floyd

#acceptable #certain #congenial #found #i