#scholar

In fact, from then on scholars engaged in a kind of game of comparing different Indo-European languages with one another, and eventually they could not fail to wonder what exactly these connections showed, and how they should be interpreted in concrete terms. ↗

— Ferdinand de Saussure

#comparing #concrete #connections #could #different

A scholar must not only be capable of hard, often totally resultless work - he must actually relish it. ↗

— Richard D. Altick

#scholar #art

But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#fail #international #life #national life #noted

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners. ↗

— Albert Camus

#death #execution #intelligence #scholars #thinkers

It is a wholly deplorable state of affairs when specialists in any discipline talk only to each other, and accordingly I have sought to write a book which will communicate some of the fruits of research in a manner which will make them accessible to all. ↗

— Richard Fletcher

#scholarship #specialization #communication

Shulman argues that work that is valued is work that is presented to colleagues. The failure to make this kind of wider connection weakens the sense of community. This happens in scholarly life when such essential functions as professional service or teaching do not get discussed openly or often enough. ↗

— Charles E. Glassick

#communication #scholarship #communication

I went to the High School for Performing Arts, and to Howard University on a talent scholarship. ↗

— Anthony Anderson

#high #high school #howard #i #performing

Well now," the scholar went on, "I'm just an old fuddy-duddy who could use a tan, so you needn't grant my opinion any authority, but I consider the queendom lucky that a handful of Milliners and their children lived incognito among the population during Redd's tyranny. ↗

— Frank Beddor

#frank #glass #humor #incognito #looking

Someday I must read this scholar Everyone. He seems to have written so much--all of it wrong. -Daine ↗

— Tamora Pierce

#humor #scholar #humor

I got into Julliard on almost a full scholarship. ↗

— Christine Baranski

#full #got #i #into #julliard