Academically Quotes

Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Academically Quotes from famous persons: Jon Huntsman, Sr., Matt Cohen, Angela Duckworth, Sami Gayle, Lucio Tan. The wide variety of quotes available makes it possible to find a quote to suit your needs. You’ve likely heard some of the Academically Quotes before, but that’s because they truly are great.

I found that, academically, it really didn’t matter whether I had received a certain grade in a class; it didn’t matter too much what schools I wanted to attend… What matters is one’s drive, one’s intelligence.

Jon Huntsman, Sr.

I wanted to play football all my life, and when I got accepted to Florida State, it was academically – it wasn’t for any kind of scholarship. I kind of sat down and said, ‘I’m not going to make it to the NFL. I’m not the size nor the skill.’

Matt Cohen

I know that instructional time is a zero-sum game, but if we want kids to do well academically, it’s hard to imagine that happening if they don’t have some control over their attention.

Angela Duckworth

I have never gotten a B in my life. I would honestly be mortified if I got a B. I’m so academically driven.

Sami Gayle

There was a time in the mid-1950s when the Philippines was in the same league as Japan economically and academically. Fifty years down the road, and we are almost dead last in the ASEAN region.

Lucio Tan

I went to a very academically competitive high school. So I was always quite studious and quiet, just to keep up with the other geniuses who were in my school.

Ben Barnes

There was quite a lot of lying around in fields at Stonar, a small independent girls’ school in the country near Bath. It was a non-selective school and the right environment for me: academically not particularly pushy.

Romola Garai

As we talk about the need to foster academic achievement, we must recognize and reward those who strive academically, just as we honor athletic champions. Meeting the President of the United States is just the honor we should bestow on our academic champions.

Brad Sherman

Genetic theories, I gather, have been cherished academically with detachment.

Allen Tate

I didn’t grow up watching films, as I was more academically inclined.

Sobhita Dhulipala

I went to Columbia University because I knew I wanted to go to a school that was academically rigorous. I prided myself on getting good grades, but I also hated it.

Ezra Koenig

When you‘re growing up with a learning disability, it shoots your confidence and belief in what you can accomplish academically; it really damages it.

Maya Hawke

I was never good academically. It was mainly my own fault.

David Jason

You don’t immediately adopt the values and the framework of this, the academically successful world, just because okay now you kids get to go to high school.

Lawrence O’Donnell

I thought I was gonna be an attorney, so I went to Dartmouth and I was a government major and I minored in environmental policy, and I didn’t do anything academically around the arts.

Aisha Tyler

I’m worried about the future of America insofar as our academically most promising students are being funneled through the cookie-cutter Ivy League and other elite schools and emerging with this callow anti-American, anti-military cast to their thinking.

Camille Paglia

I had a quite unconventional childhood, in the sense that I traveled a lot and I went to 10 or 11 schools. I was completely confused academically, but wherever I went, I could paint. I painted an inordinate amount.

Ridley Scott

There was a point when I was very young where I remember talking with my mom about going to drama school and this was maybe when I was 8, 9, 10 years old – and she knew that I was also academically very capable, and she steered me in another direction.

Carmen Ejogo

Do I think I’m under-educated? Academically, absolutely. I never took any exams, no O- or A-levels.

Hayley Mills

Some people are academically inclined, some vocationally and we shouldn’t penalise the latter.

James Dyson

Both my parents wanted me to excel academically, like every other parent. They wanted me to pursue my higher studies.

Aishwarya Lekshmi

My sisters are very academically inclined so whenever they would fix me up, it would always be from someone in their world, people they would find attractive. When they came to the door in suits, it was over.

Elizabeth Perkins

I thought I was academically prepared for a major college, but I wasn’t. Odessa gave me that preparation.

Larry Johnson

If there are activists in Cosas and they do poorly academically, then they would be cited as examples as to why others should not be in Cosas.

Kgalema Motlanthe

I wasn’t very academically inclined, growing up as a child, and the only subject I was good at was English. I had a flair for it, since I came from a literary background.

Ishaan Khatter

Academically I was never that great and I was not really into school. I don’t know, I just really had a problem focusing but singing always came naturally.

Ari Lennox

People can do more than they ever believe they can do. Physically, mentally, academically. You have to be pushed. It hurts. But it’s worth it, and it’s a great thing.

Sugar Ray Leonard

When I was at university in England, I went through a difficult phase. Outwardly everything seemed fine, and I was doing really well academically, but I was suffering from anxiety and frequent panic attacks and found it so difficult to reach out for help without people undermining my abilities.

Ananya Birla

At school I was a disaster academically but being involved in drama helped me to find another pathway into things.

Roger Allam

I love Torrance Gibson. I love his talent. I love the fact he did well academically.

Urban Meyer

In the black sororities, they celebrate achievement academically, and they really do work toward community service. As much as the white sororities claim that’s the case in their groups, it’s not really so. White sororities focus on relationships.

Alexandra Robbins

Too many children lose ground academically over the summer months.

Kay Ivey

My brother was older, very bright. He went to university. I wasn’t academically bright – maybe at first, when I was little, but it was lost. I started doing a drama workshop and got really into it, then I did a BTec in performing arts and started to work.

Suranne Jones

I don’t know whether I much enjoyed education. I was not academically gifted.

Joseph Mawle

Most people think footballers are thick. Some might be, academically, but they can see the game, strategically, tactically, in every way.

Sean Dyche

I never felt I was quite the ticket academically. I always felt I had to put in an enormous amount of effort not to be disappointing. So I worked really hard, but at the time it suited me, because I didn’t do very much else.

Emily Mortimer

I was never academically driven in English, but, again, Tom Waits is a perfect example of an influence. He writes so immaculately and paints so perfectly a world and the characters within it. There are writers like that who are my influences: vivid and gifted storytellers.

Hozier

I’ve always been incredibly proud of both of my parents and proud of the work I had done privately as a person, professionally and academically.

Chelsea Clinton

I was always very academically focused when I was growing up, and music was something for which I really had no preconceptions or expectations for myself or really any rules. It kind of represented, at least for me, a divergent path of creativity and self-discovery.

K. Flay

It’s been our goal as a program to always give our players the best opportunity to be successful, whether it’s personally, academically, or athletically.

Nick Saban

The argument that there was a social pathology of the English Reformation, that there were fundamental changes in English society and the English church which made the Reformation inevitable, is academically stone dead.

David Starkey

We believe that Liberty will redefine what is considered an academically prestigious university in the future.

Jerry Falwell, Jr.

Academically, I was thick. School wasn’t bad, but I was.

Brian Clough

Academically, I was never that interested. I skipped classes. My biggest dream was to have a coffee shop, but I had no idea how to get the money to do that.

Daniel Espinosa

We love high-end art, but when you’re looking at high-end art in music, a lot of the time, it’s appreciated academically, but you can’t feel it as much.

Adrian Younge

Girls are more academically powerful. They make the grades, they run the student activities, they are the valedictorians.

Christina Hoff Sommers

When I was young, I never thought I was going to be a writer! I was academically orientated and active at sports, but I didn’t have one creative bone in my body.

Amish Tripathi

Socially, I’m fine, and academically, I’m doing OK too.

Lindsey Horan

My father was a truck driver. That’s where it all started, and academically I was a disaster at school. My cousin got his name on the honour board; I, at Melbourne High School, I carved mine on the desk.

Lindsay Fox

I don’t think anyone will deny that girls are academically superior as a group.

Christina Hoff Sommers

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