568 Quotes About Academic

While in any academic field of study, it is either you fall in love with books and avoid going into emotional affairs with humans, or the other way round, but you cannot possibly focus on the both at the same time because love is as powerful as being able to cause distraction.

If there is one central intellectual reality at the end of the twentieth century, it is that the biological approach to psychiatry--treating mental illness as a genetically influenced disorder of brain chemistry--has been a smashing success. Freud's ideas, which dominated the history of psychiatry for the past half century, are now vanishing like the last snows of winter.

All the things we experience in life can be separated into two realms, the realm of the concept and the realm of the senses.

Dance history is not only an academic or artistic undertaking. Dance history is human history. Dance history explores the intersection of the collective narrative with the human body. You can not understand history of dance without understanding how dance is the individuation of collective storytelling."Marquita Burke De Jesus, Associate Professor in Dance

We must never forget our teachers and our lecturers. In their individual capacities have contributed to our academic, professional and personal development.

Not a moment passes these days without fresh rushes of academic lemmings off the cliffs they proclaim the political responsibilities of the critic, but eventually all this moralizing will subside.

We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death. That’s why we like all the things that we assume have no limits and, therefore, no end. It’s a way of escaping thoughts about death. We like lists because we don’t want to die.

Prof. George Wiafe said, Lailah, wherever you are make the best out of that place.

...he had also acquired a peculiar academic quirk. During exams, he knew all the answers but wasn’t able to successfully map his answers to the right questions. So as soon as an exam started, he simply started putting his answers in the order in which he remembered them. Every time he moved to a new class, his parents made the new teachers aware of this snag. The teachers acknowledged it and reassured the parents that they’d match his answers against the appropriate questions.