Quotes of: Academically Keyword

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic.

William Bernbach

I've always been more inclined to go out to work than carry on with academic studies.

Michael Fassbender

Nobody wants to be a lawyer - it's hard work. But it was kind of my academic route.

Vinny Guadagnino

Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background.

Paul Giamatti

Merit should count more than academic background.

Lee Myung-bak

Academic pedigree alone is no guarantor of useful knowledge and wisdom.

Robert Samuelson

I didn't have a normal academic career. I never studied cinema. I learned from life.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

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

Carlisle Floyd

I don't really know how music and comedy are similar. I try never to dissect it theoretically or academically.

Eric Andre

I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.

Ad Reinhardt

The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I come from an academic background. I wasn't raised to be into promoting myself.

Michael Heizer

I became an academic so that I could share my knowledge and experience with students.

Vivek Wadhwa

I don't believe in firing professors. They have academic freedom.

Alan Dershowitz

Honestly, I didn't have the patience for biology or history in an academic sense, but I always liked the kind of big questions.

Andrew Bird

The armoury of having any academic education does not necessarily set you up for being a good or better actor.

Benedict Cumberbatch

People can do more than they ever believe they can do. Physically, mentally, academically. You have to be pushed. It hurts. But it's worth it, and it's a great thing.

Sugar Ray Leonard

I'm not going to school just for the academics - I wanted to share ideas, to be around people who are passionate about learning.

Emma Watson

Love of learning led to monasteries, which became the cradle of academic guilds.

John Ortberg

I didn't do very well academically; I was always in the bottom class.

Chris Lilley

Simplicity, for reasons that are a little bit obscure, is almost not pursued, at least in the academic world.

George M. Whitesides