Famous Quotes & Sayings

I dare say there has never been an assemblage of so many distinguished Francis Marion and Revolutionary War scholars outside an academic context in the state. We had some of the top people on the Revolutionary War and Marion involved in the discussions.

I am excited to bring these six young women to the IU Bloomington campus to help the Hoosiers compete for the Big Ten title. They bring size, speed, skill and a high level of experience. Coupled with their academic prowess and wonderful personalities, they will play a huge role next season.

Sue Kelly

I am committed to ensuring that every child has the opportunity for academic success.

I am among the few who continue to draw after childhood is ended, continuing and perfecting childhood drawing-without the traditional interruption of academic training.

Samuel J. Palmisano

IBM isn't investing billions of dollars every year into research and development - and winning more patents than our top 10 competitors combined for more than a decade - as an academic exercise. But research is now being driven much more by what people need rather than just by what is possible.

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

Stephen Mangan

When I was 13, I won a scholarship to boarding school. My parents let me choose whether to go, and I decided I wanted to. Afterwards, I went to Cambridge to study law - in a way, I was carrying the academic hopes of my family, as Mum and Dad left school at 14.

Iain McGilchrist

I trained in medicine after pursuing an academic career in the humanities, mainly because of my interest in the relationship between mind and body, and between mind and brain.

Flea

Just so people know, the Silverlake Conservatory of Music is not at all about celebrity or fame or being a star. It's an academic music school.

I'm an academic. It's publish or perish.

Donald Knuth

Programming is legitimate and necessary academic endeavour.

Harold E. Varmus

In preparation for a career in academic medicine, I worked as a medical house officer at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital from 1966 to 1968 and then joined Ira Pastan's laboratory at the National Institutes of Health as a Clinical Associate.

Harold E. Varmus

I had learned of Gertrude Stein's bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my future life as literary psychiatrist, globe-trotting tropical disease specialist, or academic internist.

Eric Olsen

I was looking for the complete package. I felt that it was everything I was looking for from the academic standpoint, the coaches and the environment. Plus, it had that mystique and tradition there. It was just awesome.

I would say that in my 21 years, the number of those schools has quadrupled, and I would put schools in quotation marks. They're not all academic institutions.

Ken brings a strong and varied background in business, accounting, academics and administration to his new role,

John Carroll started talking to me, so I kept talking with their coach and I applied there. The coach said, 'I want you over here next year.' It's a smaller program with high academics and a good wrestling program. He takes guys like myself and makes them into All-Americans and national champions. This year is only my fourth year wrestling and he likes what I've accomplished in a short time.

I think it's a great advantage. It allows you to get a gauge of where you're at, get some people healthy, either those who were injured in camp or in the game, and it allows you to settle into an academic routine.

Andrew Zimbalist

I think it is madness. It is not what you would have if there was any reasonable balance between academics and athletics.

I think in the case of my father, in terms of the things that influenced me, he never pressed me to go into academics or pressed me to go to a field, and indeed, my behavior was largely to move as far the other direction. I don't think that's uncommon with people with very successful parents.

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.

He could give Carolyn a good view on what kind of person she is, as well as her academic achievements.

Having a baby made her more focused on academics and athletics.

He knows that signing day isn't the end of the world. If those are the only visits he makes before then and he knows where he wants to go, that's fine. But he's interested in academics of the program and just the perfect fit for him.

He'll be here in January and be a part of the preseason all next year. I think we've taken the right approach by letting him finish his academic career and letting him concentrate on the U-17 tournament.

Helena has exceptional interpersonal skills, which allow people to follow her leadership regardless of how high she sets the academic bar.

He is very humble. I did mention to him earlier that I saw his 200-page media guide and he's on page 84. It's all about Ohio State, it's all about his players and the academic service center. I told him I respected that.

Lawrence Summers

Harvard's endowment is critical to the university's academic and financial aid programs and to its capacity for growth, ... the endowment will continue to be overseen and invested with the highest level of professionalism and expertise.

Mark Johnson

To do what we have done in four years, yeah, it's a little bit surprising. But at the same (time), if you bring in good players and you bring in kids who are committed not only for the academic standpoint but also committed to becoming better players, things can happen.

Here, it's more that you have everybody supporting you. Everybody's going to be there. Your teammates, your coaches, your academic advisers, everybody is doing things to help you, and when you get at the professional level you have to do everything to help yourself.

He's Academic All-State in soccer because he has a GPA better than 3.6.

B. F. Skinner

Here we are playing great basketball, and you'd think they'd take these things into consideration. From an academic standpoint, it has not served us very well. We're going to have to go to the other side of the country. We have to travel to a different time zone. So, we've got some issues, and we've got to try to limit them as best we can.

Going from academic person to TV host has been fun and exhausting at the same time.