#academic

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 was always more of an academic than a jock. ↗

— Edwin Moses

#always #i #jock #more #than

Well, that was in 1995 when I resigned from my last academic job. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#i #job #last #resigned #well

Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#become #claim #democratic #democratic party #democrats

I am waiting impatiently for the day when beleaguered, like-minded academics can order James Wolcott's collected essays for their classes. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#am #classes #collected #day #essays

I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace. ↗

— Ad Reinhardt

#i #i tried #marketplace #oppose #tried

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

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I don't have the notion that everybody has to write in some single academic style. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

#everybody #i #notion #single #some

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

#agree #civility #discipline #expect #much