Famous Quotes & Sayings

I entered at an interesting time, after the L.A. riots, when the field was in crisis. A lot of the movement was down with solidarity with other races, but the riots were a shock. The focus became interracial relations, and they wanted to know what I thought. It gave me a weird credibility in the field. A lot of us got published in academic journals right away.

From the minute you walk in, academics come first, ... There will be assignments, there will be reading, the whole nine yards.

From the first time I met him I had a good feeling. Just the way we connected, the way he carries himself. It was very appealing because he wasn't only stressing the basketball side but academics also.

For the shop owners, this reduces the cost and risk of bringing a very enthusiastic young worker into the shop. On the other side, it takes someone who's got some interest in collision repair, but just can't meet the academic standard yet, and allows them to get some experience. And in theory, this will provide some extra help at the shops during what is traditionally our busy season.

For most positions on campus, the market isn't defined by all of the other D-I basketball universities. The competition here, for our academic positions, is schools similar to us in mission, size and geographic location. But in basketball, since we've garnered significant national attention, our market became national.

J. C. Watts

There aren't a whole lot of academic competitions to get involved in on campus, so this is good that we're having this.

We must insist that school districts that have again failed to make academic goals make fundamental changes now, not next year,

We made that decision based on the educational needs of the children. We did not want to sacrifice four days of those kids' academic lives.

John Updike

John Barth, I think, was really a writer of my own age and somewhat of my own temperament, although his books are very different from mine, and he has been a spokesman for the very ambitious, long, rather academic novel. But I don't think that what he is saying, so far as I understand it, is so very different from what I'm saying.

He was not responsible to the structure of our academic program. I think this should take care of it. He dug himself a hole in the first semester, and I expect a sense of urgency we haven't seen.

Robert Greene

I also have a lot of questions on the academic side about the four-day week, ... Only if we are in some kind of catastrophic situation can I see going with that. Right now, I don't think that is the thing for us to do.

I was reluctant to start the company that would become Lytro, primarily due to my academic background.

I have heard of many occasions when academics rely on children to explain why a game works and then rely on their own area of specialisation to analyse the game.

I have chosen to continue my athletic career in football and baseball as well as my academics at Louisiana State University.

He will be successful in whatever academic discipline he chooses to pursue.

He tackles enormous thematic questions and he's not afraid of writing what might be perceived as an academic play,

He's basically committed himself to MSU, and they'd love to commit themselves to him. But he has to get the academic situation squared away.

Barry Ritholtz

He is a known entity that is well-respected on the academic side, in Washington and by the stock market.

He is incredibly well-liked by his classmates; they respect him for both academics and athletics. He is what we would like every student-athlete to be.

He does have an academic background. He had to make things clear to undergraduate students, even if they were undergraduate students at Princeton.

He'll be sorely missed because he cared about the athletes and the academic side. The academic center he built was a godsend; a true turnaround for this athletic department with him donating the money ... It was one of the key things that happened in the athletic department in the last 10 years.

We feel in the areas important from an academic standpoint, we have really met the standard.

There is much more to schools than buildings. There are academic activities, how it reaches the community and its proximity to other programs.

We're promoting available resources to allow students to get the most out of their academic experience.

John Brady

We travel one of our academic advisors with our team. We try to stay in tune to what our players need to do on the road and what they're missing in the class, particularly the ones that need some more attention.

O. Henry

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.

The provost is chiefly responsible for all academic affairs. Deans report to the provost.

Mindy demonstrated incredible fortitude and responsibility by overcoming her Type 1 diabetes in order to play at a high level. In addition, she has been a role model in the classroom, earning GNAC Academic all-conference honors.

Much of education is out of touch with the value of practical experience compared to academic experience when it comes to technical trainer positions. When I spoke to ASE about this, I used our newsletter as an example. It had seven ads in it for automotive faculty and six out of the seven required at least a bachelor's degree. In reality, when it comes to automotive degrees, an associate's degree is pretty much the routine degree that technicians would secure.

Obviously we would like to see those statistics higher. But this is a process that the NCAA member institutions are going through to change behavior and essentially ensure the student athletes, coaches and everyone involved in collegiate athletics understands that academic achievement and academic performance is just as important as athletic performance.

P. J. O'Rourke

Of all the American educational system's problems, none is more severe than the academic year beginning before Labor Day.

Harry Reid

No one disputes his academic prowess, his mental power. He's a very smart man, ... But through all this I came to the realization that I'm not too sure his heart is as big as his head.

My Dad always liked Syracuse and we knew here that Colin (Barber) was leaving, ... We figured that this would be the best place for me. Plus, the academics are great, too.