Academicism Quotes & Sayings

Easterly, a celebrated economist, presents one side in what has become an ongoing debate with fellow star-economist Jeffrey Sachs about the role of international aid in global poverty. Easterly argues that existing aid strategies have not and will not reduce poverty, because they don't seriously take into account feedback from those who need the aid and because they perpetuate western colonial tendencies. — Amy Lockwood

Make a written list of everything you love. — Rhonda Byrne

I know Raft did have some genuine affairs with actresses. — Cesar Romero

It is precisely in that relationship to the Reader that you will find most of the classic faults of style: pretension, condescension, servility, obscurantism, grandiosity, vulgarity, and the like
even academicism. That's why most faults of style can be described in language relevant to human relations. Is your style frank and open ... does it have some understated agenda ... is it out to prove something it does not or cannot admit ... is it trying to impress ... show off ... is it kissing up ... groveling ... maybe just a tad passive-aggressive, with a mumbling half-audible voice that is unwilling to explain ... is it trying to convince ... overwhelm ... help ... seduce ... give pleasure ... inflict pain ... There is no area of the writer's work that is more responsive to the psychology of human connection than style. — Stephen Koch

Film is not analysis, it is the agitation of mind; cinema comes from the country fair and the circus, not from art and academicism. — Werner Herzog

Stay with me, God. The night is dark, The night is cold: My little spark Of courage dies. The night is long; Be with me, God, and make me strong. — Dean Koontz

This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking. — Lionel Trilling

I mean, who wants to be the fucking goddess of macrame? — Neal Stephenson

We had experienced the best and the worst of love, sex, and lies. Every heartbreak, every lie, every cheat, every test, — Jessica N. Watkins

It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism. — Mark Rothko

She recognized her emerging impulses, unchecked and capable of surprising anyone, but she needed help to awaken them and set them free. When flirting with men, she tested their courage in hopes that their shameless gaze would help her find something deep within herself. — Vadim Babenko