Famous Quotes & Sayings

We can offer a premier music component and we offer what I consider a premium academic experience already. I would just as soon keep that separate and then in the afternoon they (students) could be immersed in music.

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

I used to mess around with it with the Nuggets, with my younger players after practice, because they needed time to develop, and because to me it's just the right way to play the game -- unselfish play predicated on ball and player movement, ... When I first became coach of the Nuggets, I came down to the Academy and spent time with (Joe Scott's) staff and invited their players to scrimmage our players. I knew the Air Force players would make our guys chase them defensively. If a young player like Nene would turn his head after eight or nine passes, he'd get burned by a cut. It really helped us.

The whole point about resting guys is all academic as of this week because we've got days off, and I don't have to rest anybody,

The Right likes to think that intellectuals and academics like Allan Bloom and Dinesh D'Souza spurred the explosive growth of movement conservatism in the 1980s and 1990s, when it was actually mostly Rush Limbaugh.

Chris Bennett

The school is open to all -- no performances, portfolios or academic qualifications are necessary for admission. We build the curriculum around each individual student. They have the opportunity to choose the electives that challenge them and address their individual needs.

Though most university-level entrepreneurship programs have some basic features in common, there is so much variation it's hard to identify a typical curriculum, let alone an exemplary one. While diversity is good, this field needs more of the consistency in core concepts found in other academic fields.

You have to make sure the students are highly motivated to pursue their academic interests.

Arne Duncan

With innovative programs like Nourish for Knowledge and partnerships with organizations like the Greater Chicago Food Depository, the Chicago Public Schools is working to provide our children with the solid foundation they need for a successful academic career.

You have to be an effective communicator, have a deep understanding of the complexity of a university this size, you should believe in shared governance, understand the academic mission of the university and have strong ethics.

You have to understand, when you're a part of UAF hockey, your time is constantly pulled out by a number of different ways. You have appearances, and talking to kids in schools, and dealing with academics and all the work they have to do as part of the hockey team. Honestly, the guys are more relaxed on the road. They don't have any of those usual pressures.

We spend so much recognition on sports, but the Post-Herald stepped up and did an admirable job of bringing attention to the academic side of our schools,

Michael Porter

Too many academics and business managers are satisfied with the 'good feeling' as argument. I disagree completely.

There's no question that playing so close to Athens and the campus has its advantages for us. Travel is very time consuming and taxing physically, especially when you're juggling academic and athletic schedules, so we'll be able to avoid some of that and hopefully be fresher for the NCAA Regional and the NCAA Championships. We also hope these tournaments will give our supporters a chance to come out and watch us play. It means so much to the guys to look into the gallery and see someone wearing a Georgia cap or shirt.

Mike Pompeo

There's no doubt West Point impacted who I am... It has an enormous emphasis, not only on military aspects, but character development. Whether it's the honor code, or the interactions you have, both with the cadet leadership and the academy leadership, every place you are is a character test.

There's less of a degree of luck in something like the Academy Awards than, say, a basketball game. There are a lot of other things that can't be handicapped (in a basketball game).

The tree-hugging Tolkien freaks, once they get around to seeing the movie and reading the books, tend to go on to read other things that he did. In 1936 he gave a British Academy lecture called Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics, which is still one of the most fabulous things that's been written.

Peter Holland

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.

The Time to Succeed Coalition brings together an unprecedented group of leaders from education and business, communities and academia to say that it is time to strike the shackles of an outdated school calendar from our disadvantaged schools.

John Sexton

The time has come for the university to insist that the academic needs of its undergraduates be met. Those undergraduates in classes affected by the strike are understandably anxious about the disruption to their studies. Such disruption must not continue.

Dan Shechtman

I see the root of the education crisis in the primary and secondary schools. Academia is doing a fairly good job. The root of the problem is the teachers. Some are great. But too many of them are not capable of being good role models. They can't control the classes. They lose too much time trying to create a learning environment.

I've been a university president now for about 20 years and I have never found any relationship between alumni giving to academic programs and the success of the athletic program. Most senior fundraisers understand that raising money for the academic program is not going to be affected by that. They may be able to build a bigger stadium or put new seats in the gym, but it is not going to put more endowed chairs in their faculty.

What surprised me is what we're able to accomplish with the resources we have in comparison to institutions with much larger budgets. That has just baffled me. There are schools out there with huge academic budgets and somehow, with our skeleton staff, the kids just get it done.

Jan Eliasson

We will not achieve our collective goals for development, peace and security and human rights if we do not take concrete action to enhance women's participation in decision-making in governments, parliaments, international organizations, academic life and the private sector.

The printed and online resources comprising The Better World Project share a remarkable collection of human interest stories that convey the importance of academic research and technology transfer in terms we all can appreciate. Another goal of the project is to show communities worldwide that technology transfer is important not only to our health and well-being, but also to the growing knowledge-based economy.

Ron Moody

We try to create this type of atmosphere. When they succeed, they become known as an academic school instead of an athletic school.

We try to set them up, maybe with a kid with the same area geography-wise, or similar academic interests. Just some type of easier way for them to have a bond.

The LA Grid program represents IBM's commitment to building the next generation of technology talent across the U.S. and Latin America. The strong partnership between IBM and academia will play an important role creating jobs, driving innovative technology into the marketplace, and stimulating Florida's economy.

The Microsoft Research division might get between $150 and $200 million, which is still pretty significant for a pure research group that isn't judged, for example, on how many products they produce. They are judged very much like an academic research organization.

The interest is so intense at some Southern California schools that students might start rioting if their school didn't have an academic decathlon coach. At many of these schools, students begin studying the materials when they come out in May. They've been pushing decathlon at these schools for years.

David Jones

The feeling from Greenspan's point of view is that you don't want a pure academic for this post because that person may not have enough political savvy and enough market sense.

The Feminine Mystique' was huge in terms of its national and international impact on society. It was like a spark on tinder and helped light the fire of the women's movement. It had solid academic foundations even though she wasn't an academic. It was the right book at the right time.

The family that is left never considered what she was doing as historically significant. I had short notice and had to get ready in a hurry. I was so excited. It was like I was going to the Academy Awards.