Famous Quotes & Sayings

As far as standards and academics I couldn't have made a better choice. I had high expectations for her and she's exceeded those. As a representative for IVC, she's been wonderful. I think she (represents) our best foot forward.

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.

The University of Colorado is a gold mine ... and we're going to work our tail off to bring a great coach to this program to match the academic standing of this institution. That will be my sole focus.

Jennifer James

Black mothers are deciding to stay home because they want to be there when their children come home after school. They want to take a hands-on approach to their children's upbringing. Some black stay-at-home mothers are also home-schooling because they are tired of low academic achievement and racism of all sorts in the schools.

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.

There is a lot of pressure for test scores and academic performance, but being a part of creating something brings about an energy. My students work together in a better way because of the opera.

The reason that we won't see a huge shift in the number of low-income students who are attending Harvard and Yale is that the academic expectations are so high that while there are some students who would qualify, the numbers are not huge.

We've heard nothing at all about the graduation contract since the 2004-05 academic year ended. Nothing has happened at all.

We will be seeking the academic perspective throughout this process, and in fact have begun so already with the formation of a faculty advisory committee.

We will be going out to each academic unit to talk about implementation in order to keep them informed throughout the process. No one will be left in the dark.

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.

You got kids cheating their way to a diploma and a degree. They're building a fairly shaky academic foundation.

There was a glut of informatics people because all of these academic programs popped up.

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.

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.

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.

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,

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.

Donald Knuth

Programming is legitimate and necessary academic endeavour.

Albert Einstein

Hell! there ain't no rules around here! We are tryin' to accomplish somep'n!

Simon Mawer

When writing fiction, you only have to know enough to be convincing on the page. I mean really convincing, of course - but you don't need academic depth.

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.

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

We haven't had a party during this academic school year yet, but the hope is to implement the shirt policy at the next one.

We anticipate incremental growth because of the recognition the TV program will bring to the academic program,

Sonia Sotomayor

With my academic achievement in high school, I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores were not comparable to that of my classmates. And that's been shown by statistics, there are reasons for that.