568 Quotes About Academic

I wasn't an academic looking in books for ideas. But I educated myself about historical work that was similar to mine, to provide a frame of reference that wasn't the usual frame of reference of the New York art world and Europe.

Normally when kids go to academic meets, there are never any questions on arts or literature. So this meet brings something new and interesting to the kids, and they all just get so excited.

Universities by their very nature encourage debate, question and challenge of conventional wisdom and existing theories. We are places where knowledge is discovered. We advance existing precepts and understandings by which society currently runs. And in that context, academic staff will time to time have views that are different from the government's.

We took 10 days off before starting practices again. It hurt our conditioning and all our players really got tired, but I think the break was a positive thing. Our kids carry a tough academic load in addition to playing basketball and they needed the time off.

We are very proud of the academic progress we've made. I feel our program is as competitive both academically and athletically as any in the nation. We have gone to seven straight bowl games and our APR score ranks in the top 10 in the nation. That's a great accomplishment by our team and our staff.

Part of the struggle was probably the fact that we gave the kids a few days off once we got back to get them back into rhythm on an academic side.

It's probably indicative that I was destined for an academic career that I'm 6-5 and I lost the slam-dunk championship to somebody 5-8. I was a lot better at math.

The title was misunderstood by a number of people. We needed to make it clear that this is an academic investigation about a group of films.

It would have been extremely disruptive with the middle school's academic program, ... With the local decision, we were fine with that.