Quotes About Academically

#1. Even if we can handle it academically or intellectually, it doesn't mean we can handle it physically or emotionally. We need extra time, extra patience, and more sensitivity than most people. Full stop.

Rudy Simone

#2. If there are activists in Cosas and they do poorly academically, then they would be cited as examples as to why others should not be in Cosas.

Kgalema Motlanthe

#3. Some people are academically inclined, some vocationally and we shouldn't penalise the latter.

James Dyson

#4. I don't think anyone will deny that girls are academically superior as a group.

Christina Hoff Sommers

#5. I've always been a man of commitment whether it was academically or professionally. But spiritually I wasn't committed. I was talking the talk and I just wanted to make that commitment. It also made the commitment in other areas of my life stronger.

Avery Johnson

#6. [My mother is] a half-Chinese, half-Jamaican woman, who grew up the ninth of nine kids, getting a law degree from Harvard. Academically brilliant, but also incredibly strong-willed and ethical. My mother was like that, my sister is, and my wife is too.

Harry Connick Jr.

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

Carlisle Floyd

#8. A graduate can be academically excellent but morally and spiritually bankrupt. We need to consider these dimensions in education as well.

John Eidsmoe

#9. There was quite a lot of lying around in fields at Stonar, a small independent girls' school in the country near Bath. It was a non-selective school and the right environment for me: academically not particularly pushy.

Romola Garai

#10. I'm worried about the future of America insofar as our academically most promising students are being funneled through the cookie-cutter Ivy League and other elite schools and emerging with this callow anti-American, anti-military cast to their thinking.

Camille Paglia

#11. When I was young, I was an academically oriented guy like most academically oriented guys. I graduated in science, did an MBA. My dreams as a young boy were I wanted to be an industrialist, or I wanted to be a scientist.

Amish Tripathi

#12. I've always enjoyed real work more than schoolwork. My mother will attest to that - she was always concerned about me academically.

David Ulevitch

#13. Unchallenged, opinions became respected precedent then exceptionless concepts and sometimes even civil and academically accepted social law.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#14. Some felt I'm not academically qualified, and they're right.

Jesse Ventura

#15. I went to Columbia University because I knew I wanted to go to a school that was academically rigorous. I prided myself on getting good grades, but I also hated it.

Ezra Koenig

#16. In the black sororities, they celebrate achievement academically, and they really do work toward community service. As much as the white sororities claim that's the case in their groups, it's not really so. White sororities focus on relationships.

Alexandra Robbins

#17. I wanted to play football all my life, and when I got accepted to Florida State, it was academically - it wasn't for any kind of scholarship. I kind of sat down and said, 'I'm not going to make it to the NFL. I'm not the size nor the skill.'

Matt Cohen

#18. I also take pleasure in the so-called negative power in Grotjahn's work. That is, I love his paintings for what they are not. Unlike much art of the past decade, Grotjahn isn't simply working from a prescribed checklist of academically acceptable, curator-approved 'isms' and twists.

Jerry Saltz

#19. The big shock of my life was Abstract Expressionism - Pollock, de Kooning, those guys. It changed my work. I was an academically trained student, and suddenly you could pour paint, smear it on, broom it on!

LeRoy Neiman

#20. I was pretty anti-academic, and I wasn't much of a student. I had a really short attention span and did not get a lot out of high school academically. I think college was a little the same way.

Chris Crutcher

#21. D.C. is a hard city to grow up in. I couldn't find my footing there. Also, I got a late start academically, and I was dyslexic.

Justin Theroux

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

Eric Andre

#23. What parents said they valued most were discussions with teachers and heads, and what they wanted was more descriptive information in their children's school reports. This is particularly true for primary schools. Parents wanted to know much more than just how their children were doing academically.

Carol J. Adams

#24. Genetic theories, I gather, have been cherished academically with detachment.

Allen Tate

#25. Hungry children are distracted children. We want to make sure nothing gets in the way of our children performing well academically, including hunger.

Arne Duncan

#26. In the Far East, it is taken for granted that the training of a monk is physically rigorous and academically challenging.

Frederick Lenz

#27. I can't force my students to learn and mature academically, socially, and emotionally. But I can offer incredible experiences that make them eager to learn.

Paul Solarz

#28. I have never gotten a B in my life. I would honestly be mortified if I got a B. I'm so academically driven.

Sami Gayle

#29. I like to think I'm pretty smart with what I was able to do academically, but whenever I get on the field I turn into the Incredible Hulk and I am unstoppable.

Robert Griffin III

#30. Hugo, we are taught to be advanced in every form from academically to socially. I think our parents fucked it up, taking that advancement for granted. They wanted us to grow up with everything and in return of that we became spoiled.

Chelsea Ballinger

#31. While I had been, I guess, quite brilliant, academically, in my college years, I also had been editor of the paper, and I loved that. And, that was a much more active thing. And I missed it when I was doing graduate work.

Betty Friedan

#32. I became an actor because I didn't know what else to do. Academically, I wasn't good.

Anthony Hopkins

#33. Many students described their parents' support in nonacademic activities as being equal to their support in school. Importantly, they felt this support was instrumental in helping them do well academically because it was viewed as a general interest in their life overall

Keith Robinson

#34. I went to a private school, and I struggled academically. It was really disheartening to always be considered bad at that.

Gia Coppola

#35. I've always been incredibly proud of both of my parents and proud of the work I had done privately as a person, professionally and academically.

Chelsea Clinton

#36. If we are to prevent the fabric of our society from coming apart, we must
teach our children to excel not only academically, but also in their
appreciation of their obligation to others.

Clarence Page

#37. I treaded water academically and spent much of my summertime as a camp counselor. It seemed a fun thing to do for a person in no way prepared to commit to a career path.

Brian Shactman

#38. Singing is actually my favourite thing to do in the world - so when you don't consider yourself as talented at anything academically, and there is one thing you're good at, I think it's best to follow what you're good at.

Jess Glynne

#39. My sisters are very academically inclined so whenever they would fix me up, it would always be from someone in their world, people they would find attractive. When they came to the door in suits, it was over.

Elizabeth Perkins

#40. 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

#41. Being satisfied with the little we have; academically, spiritually, financially, ecumenically or otherwise will prevent a lot of problems from coming to us, and our dependence in our abilities and talents will go as far as bringing us satisfaction in life.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#42. I was very academically inclined. But my inner life was in such turmoil. I'd go home and my home life was so miserable that it just felt like I was doing everything that I was supposed to do. I did all my chores, made really good grades, and I was excelling at school, but I wasn't happy.

Sonja Sohn

#43. There was a point when I was very young where I remember talking with my mom about going to drama school and this was maybe when I was 8, 9, 10 years old - and she knew that I was also academically very capable, and she steered me in another direction.

Carmen Ejogo

#44. I don't know whether I much enjoyed education. I was not academically gifted.

Joseph Mawle

#45. In their quest to hit cloud Nine, our young men and women in
their prime are gradually finding themselves on ground Zero,
emotionally battered, academically bankrupt and medically
paralyzed.

Oche Otorkpa

#46. If the traditional Rs (reading, writing, and arithmetic) are the basics that we want our children to master academically, then reverence, respect, and responsibility are the three Rs that our children need to master for the sake of their souls and the health of the world.

Zoe Weil

#47. Do I think I'm under-educated? Academically, absolutely. I never took any exams, no O- or A-levels.

Hayley Mills

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

Chris Lilley

#49. All the rest of us - you and me and even the thousands of soldiers behind the lines in Africa - we want terribly yet only academically for the war to get over.

Ernie Pyle

#50. I was a nerd academically. But I was also an athlete and a musician. I never wanted to be shut out of any situation. I think it was that more than anything.

Brian McKnight

#51. Kids who don't play are not just at greater risk of falling behind academically, but also of becoming overweight or obese, failing to integrate socially, and even engaging in criminal activity.

Darell Hammond

#52. I wasn't academically successful. And maybe I've spent a lot of my career trying to make up for that.

Anna Wintour

#53. I was a weedy kid, not like one of those working-class men who can accommodate not being academically clever by physical strength and prowess.

Ken Livingstone

#54. There's probably no one who understands Method acting better academically than I do, or actually uses it more in his work. But it's funny - nobody really sees that. It's perception versus reality, I suppose.

Jack Nicholson

#55. Socrates ... did not write. It seems academically obvious that he perished because he did not publish!

Umberto Eco

#56. I went to a very academically competitive high school. So I was always quite studious and quiet, just to keep up with the other geniuses who were in my school.

Ben Barnes

#57. My father was a truck driver. That's where it all started, and academically I was a disaster at school. My cousin got his name on the honour board; I, at Melbourne High School, I carved mine on the desk.

Lindsay Fox

#58. I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically.

A.S. Byatt

#59. When I was young, I never thought I was going to be a writer! I was academically orientated and active at sports, but I didn't have one creative bone in my body.

Amish Tripathi

#60. 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

#61. Girls are more academically powerful. They make the grades, they run the student activities, they are the valedictorians.

Christina Hoff Sommers

#62. I never felt I was quite the ticket academically. I always felt I had to put in an enormous amount of effort not to be disappointing. So I worked really hard, but at the time it suited me, because I didn't do very much else.

Emily Mortimer

#63. The foursome settled down in Kate's living room, which was furnished academically, i.e., from flea markets and yard sales.

Anonymous

#64. I thought I was gonna be an attorney, so I went to Dartmouth and I was a government major and I minored in environmental policy, and I didn't do anything academically around the arts.

Aisha Tyler

#65. I had a quite unconventional childhood, in the sense that I traveled a lot and I went to 10 or 11 schools. I was completely confused academically, but wherever I went, I could paint. I painted an inordinate amount.

Ridley Scott

#66. I was no great achiever at school, either academically or in the sporting field ... I was always tending to be in trouble.

Peter Hollingworth

#67. When you home study, you get a better education. I basically got to teach myself. Being naturally able to make my own opinions about the schoolwork I had to deal with, instead of being instructed under the tutelage of the teacher, was really nice academically.

Thora Birch

#68. I was the kind of kid who couldn't really stop making up stories during class. I didn't do very well academically because I was always drawing these little doodles in the margins of my notebooks and I wasn't bringing home the best grades.

Meg Cabot

#69. Recent decades clearly demonstrate that the more secular our Public Schools become the less successful they become academically.

David Barton