Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Greenspan

a distinguished appointment. Ben comes with superb academic credentials and important insights into the ways our economy functions.

Some people might say that an academic kid like that would be soft, but he's not soft. He is hard as a player. He covers kids that are bigger than him and weigh more than him, but he never gets kids that work harder than him.

Derek Bok

Once you start worrying about a national football championship, then you begin to worry about getting the quality of athlete, and the numbers needed, to win a national championship. And that worry leads to pressure to compromise academic standards to admit those athletes.

Andrew Greeley

One could say at a dinner party that most Americans are faithful to their spouses, and a loud mouth, semi-inebriated jerk can respond that the conclusion cannot be true because look at all the academics who sleep around at professional meetings.

One day, I was reading the New York Times and there was a front page story about Simmons and the Plan for Academic Enrichment, ... So that just got me to thinking, so I picked up the phone and asked if anybody was interested down there.

Action, not words, would be the measure of our success or failure. Will there be lengthy academic or legal debates on what constitutes genocide or crimes against humanity while people die?

Dr. Anvari is a seasoned professional dean who emerged as our leading candidate from a national search, ... He comes to the university with many years of experience as a professor and dean. He just brings a lot of strength to our academic and administrative bench.

Coach Groh has provided strong leadership for the university's football program, and we want to ensure continuity in its future academic and athletic successes.

Chris Hernandez

Coach Walberg and all the coaches at Clovis West prepared me very well with discipline, academics and mental toughness.

There's a lot of practical interest and a lot of academic interest in the patent system. And I think the community is going to be extremely motivated to do (reviews).

There's been an academic situation from a previous institution where he is, at this point of time, ineligible. He still has to earn his Associate of Arts (A.A.) degree. We are expecting him to come back to UNLV when he does.

The research side of academic life is often viewed from the outside as a solo and, at times, lonely activity. In fact, it is quite the opposite: a communal activity in significant part where interaction and interchange generate ideas and critiques of them.

There's also all the tedious academic books that come out. There's something like a book or an article on Beowulf being produced every week at the moment.

There's a lot of things to learn, starting with you'd better caution people just as the State Department cautioned people, especially those of Chinese descent, before they decide to engage in academic research in China,

There's a new NCAA rule in Division 1. In the academic year it used to be two assistants on the road and now it's three. All the three of our guys, their primary role will be recruiting.

As Washington University continues to grow its biomedical and academic research programs, they are realizing the need for one centralized system to help them manage and track often overwhelming amounts of data and reports.

ASUM hosts the Student Showcase every year in order for unique academic programs in the UM system to present their programs and their accomplishments to legislators.

Matt Cartwright

A balanced diet and physical activity are vital to academic performance. A healthy diet has a direct link to increased cognitive function and memory skills, decreased absenteeism from school, and improved mood. These advantages can help students stay focused and complete their coursework.

Abolishing tenure could just turn the decision making over to deans who come out of today's orthodox academic world. That would mean that few remaining non-leftists would get pushed out.

The most encouraging thing is finally it's narrowing. This is something I've been writing about for so long, and it's been the most discouraging thing about athletics and academics -- that gap has been persistently wide, and has in some cases gotten wider.

Accepting money from the federal government to conduct research places academic inquiry in the service of national interests.

A lot of people will have that mentality of: Why Truman?, but I'll tell you what - we have a lot of good things at Truman. The people who go to school here are pretty fortunate. I'm fortunate to be here. We have the best academics in the conference. Our kids are getting jobs. We've just been named the No. 1 school in the conference for graduation rate. That's what you talk about.

A meeting of the Academic Council (AC) has been scheduled for Monday, while a meeting of the Governing Council (GC) has been scheduled for September 14. We decided to open up the Academic Department for two days - today and tomorrow - to facilitate the meeting of the AC.

A lot of us are concerned about the academic performance of baseball teams.

They gave a nice academic touch to our squad.

Francis Collins

This is not just an academic exercise by a bunch of nerdy gene hunters. This is the engine that will transform medicine.

Francis Collins

This is not just an academic exercise by a bunch of nerdy gene hunters. This is an effort that will transform medicine.

This is such a good competition because it places emphasis more on academics rather than looks. It really is a more level playing field because of that.

Robert Morse

This isn't being published for the academic community, albeit the academic community is keenly interested in it. From a student and parents' perspective, to know the relative peer standings of a school is important.

This is particularly important for academic researchers who are seeking to find out if discoveries in the laboratory actually have promise in people. Now we can learn tremendous amounts of information without exposing people to very high doses.

The Wellcome Foundation offered me the chance to establish a small academic research unit, modestly funded, but with total independence. The real opportunity, however, came from King's College, London.

The University went into this knowing that our role was going to be to raise the standards of the current academic program.

Winona LaDuke

The University of Minnesota has basically said, 'Well, we aren't intending to do it. But we want the right to.' And that's the problem, is that open door. I understand academic freedom. I'm a big supporter of academic freedom. But I feel like there should be some academic responsibility.